5% of Unborn Babies given a social media profile

As social media becomes an increasingly important part of life, it’s perhaps unsurprising to find out that parents are creating digital presences for their children sometimes while they’re still in the womb.
You may think that it would only be a handful of particularly geeky parents who would bother to set up a Twitter or Facebook account for their unborn child, but a study published today by Internet security firm AVG found that 5% of babies under 2 have social media profiles, while 7% have an email address.
The main reason for doing this, it seems, is to share baby scans and information about the pregnancy with family and friends. Meanwhile, many more babies are “online” in some form or other. 23% of foetuses’ had images of their antenatal scans uploaded before birth.
The idea of babies having an online presence before birth and in early life is not surprising given the growth of social media in recent years It does raise some issues about privacy but it is clear that babies being born today are going to end up with a pretty big digital footprint by the time they are 18.