So Wait, Why Post Your Family Pictures On Social Media?

It’s a legitimate question.

Before we get going on this post, yes my sperm sucks and I’m infertile and I cannot impregnate my wife and it’s terrible and sometimes I question it all and no, that’s not the reason I am writing this post.

I was talking to my man Todd yesterday — in some circles, he is better known as “Tara Lipinski’s husband” — and we’re talking about birthday parties and kids and smash cakes and all that, as 40-something males obviously do over text message.

So Todd says to me, “I am pretty sure when I turned 1, there are a few photos of me and the cake, but they’re not blasted all over the Internet.”

Now, Todd and I are old, and turned one before the dawn of the Internet, but still … he has a point.

Let’s unpack all this for a quick second.

Before we get too deep here, let’s start with the obvious: anytime you post a photo of a young child, even if you think your controls and privacy are amazing, you have no idea who could end up with that photo. Perverts. China. AI models. Whatever. You honestly have no clue. You might think you have a clue, but you don’t.

And then we bring in the next obvious wrinkle: many of us absolutely live on our phones, right? So, if you…