I still think of Facebook blowing up in popularity circa 2005. Now that it has upwards of 200 million members, everyone and their mom is on facebook. Although, my mother is not, my mother-in-law has an account. Younger moms also have accounts. And younger moms have younger kids.

If Facebook is still around in 20 years, most of the young people will be able to find everything they ever wanted to know about their young adult homies by being Facebook friends with their acquaintances’ moms. You would think Facebook has the staying power to be around in 20 years.

My wife and I see it now as we peruse Facebook photo galleries. Young mothers with monthly picture updates of their kids. One of a few things will happen as time progresses:

1. They will become bored with taking pictures of their kids.
2. They will be too lazy to post pictures they do take.
3. They will continue to post and possibly embarrass their children as little Billy poops his pants and it is displayed for all of mommy’s Facebook friends to see.

I don’t know if those mothers realize it, but the internet doesn’t forget. Especially people with open profiles. Yeah, sure, you can delete the pictures, assuming Facebook wipes them from their servers. But, I might just start saving the really incriminating ones to give my future children the

My future kid: “Remember that time you wet the bed in the shape of a smiley face and your mom posted the pictures?”
My future kid’s friend: “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
My future kid: “I’ve got a copy of it ready to go up on my blog if you ever cross me.”

Wow. I sound like I’m going to be a terrible parent.
And yes, my child will have his/her own blog from birth.

By then, embarrassing pictures will probably be lame and there will be new ways to totally humiliate your classmates.

My future children will probably look back at this post and make fun of me.