Mother Says Photos Of Her 6-Year-Old Son On Instagram Are Ignored And Will Ruin His Life
A mother of a six-year-old boy offered a disturbing post on Instagram on his sixth birthday, bemoaning the fact that he didn’t get as many “likes” on Instagram when she posted his photos. The mom’s post included troubling statements like these: “From a statistical point of view, he wasn’t as popular with everyone out there … I say all that because I want to believe that it wasn’t him … that it was on me.” Things went downhill from there, as she wrote, “I wanted to clarify that I revealed this feeling because I know one day he will see the numbers and have to learn that his value is not in online approval.”
The full text looked like this:
Guys I am gonna be perfectly honest … Instagram never gave my Munchkin a chance and it killed me inside. His photos never got as many likes. Never got comments. From a statistical point of view, he wasn’t as popular with everyone out there. Maybe part of that was the pictures never hit the algorithm right. Part might be because he was “the baby” for a very short amount of time before LJ came along … and then Max and then Ella. And people like babies. I say all that because I want to believe that it wasn’t him … that it was on me. My insufficiency caused this statistical deficit because obviously my Munch should get ALL the love and squinty eyes are totally adorable. So can we do this right? Because I truly KNOW that my Munch deserves alllllll the likes … whether or not a stranger gives it to him. And on his sixth birthday – I am thankful that I know that – that no matter what other people think of me or my kids or my marriage or my house or my life or my everything … that they are 1000000000x better in real life than any tiny picture could hold.p.s. I wanted to clarify that I revealed this feeling because I know one day he will see the numbers and have to learn that his value is not in online approval. This is a hard lesson for anyone to learn and I’m thankful I have learned it. I hope you can all be understanding and not take things out or believe that this in any way affects how I see or treat my children. All comments and well wishes I read to the birthday boy!
Compared to Baby Boomers (born 1946–1961) at the same age, GenX’ers (born 1962–1981) and Millennials (born after 1982) considered goals related to extrinsic values (money, image, fame) more important and those related to intrinsic values (self-acceptance, affiliation, community) less important. Concern for others (e.g., empathy for outgroups, charity donations, the importance of having a job worthwhile to society) declined slightly. … In most cases, Millennials slowed, though did not reverse, trends toward reduced community feeling begun by GenX. The results generally support the “Generation Me” view of generational differences rather than the “Generation We” or no change views.
There was plenty of reaction to the mother’s Instagram post on Twitter:
Mother Says Photos Of Her 6-Year-Old Son On Instagram Are Ignored And Will Ruin His Life
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