Twitter for newborns: Weird and creepy or fun and humourous?

YOU’D think that digital narcissism begins and ends with the self, and of course it mostly does, until you realise that the average narcissist would consider their baby an extension of self.

Which might explain baby Twitter accounts. As in, opening a Twitter account in the name of your baby and then tweeting as though you are that baby. Example: “Join me in my crib. Party 3am”. Or “Parties in my crib are always BYOB”.

While not quite Swiftian in their satire, the owner of this account — an adult female, who, for the sake of kindness, shall remain anonymous — explained on the Baby Centre blog her moment of inspiration for her infant son’s pretend tweets: “Not all parents will understand, but they will get why you might be up at 3am for a reason other than partying. I was mind-numbingly bored when the passing thought occurred to me, ‘Tweeting as my baby would be hilarious’. After posting the first tweet about the 3am crib party, the woman says she “laughed hysterically (let’s not forget it really was 3am and I was hysterical with exhaustion”.