Sharenting - like parenting, only digital

A few years ago AVG coined the term “Digital Birth” to describe the moment an online identity begins. The name grew out of a survey that determined at least a quarter of today’s children have digital births before their physical births. This occurs when excited parents post news of their pregnancy on their preferred social networks. They follow up with ultrasound images, perhaps an announcement of the baby’s sex and so on. It’s easy to see, right from the beginning of life, that a person’s digital identity can be largely out of their hands.