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Millennial Moms: Social Media Compulsion and ‘Oversharenting’
By: Julia Beyers
Many mIllennial moms have a social media compulsion often sharing many photos of their kids (oversharenting). We wondered how this affects their kids.
The world changes and people’s preferences evolve. As new generations appear, we see new social trends, some of which are positive, but others may seem unusual or even dangerous.
Modern mothers are quite different from their own moms. Many of them live online. It sometimes seems as though they can barely get by without their smartphones.
They connect to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and other social media sites frequently, sometimes continuously throughout the day.
Is this compulsion bad? And, if so, how does it affect their children? Let’s take a look
Millennial Moms reshape the world
First, let’s look at some current trends. A few years ago, BabyCenter issued a report that claimed 83% of modern moms are Millennials. This is the generation of people born within 1980s-mid 1990s or so.
Each day, they give birth to thousands of babies, which will belong to Generation Z. The mid-1990s to mid-2000s are usually described as the starting birth years for Gen Z. The children of…
