Publicity and Privacy (Welcome Milo!)

Last Friday in the wee hours of the morning, Teresa and I welcomed little Milo into the world. He's a dream - he's perfect, sweet, lovely, amazing. I now know that there is no cuter baby in the world than your own.

The first thing a proud daddy does is to share the news with family. We called our parents and our siblings. Of course, they wanted photos, so we took a few with the iPhone and uploaded them to Wee Web. We uploaded a favorite to each of our Facebook profiles as well.

We remembered to bring our fancy camera and our new Flip camcorder with us, and we had a gazillion photos and videos from the hospital of the three of us bonding and becoming a family after the birth. And then we realized just how useful Wee Web is.

We are avid Facebook users (especially Teresa), but most of our photos were not appropriate for public consumption. Many were a bit too candid for our taste: our bedraggled, exhausted faces and our messy little naked alien weren't properly composed for acquaintances.

Just last week I came across this article where Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, opines that privacy is a thing of the past:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_privacy_is_ov.php

I disagree. There are many things that are too special, too candid and too true for the public. Things that are only appropriate for family. Including our most special photos of Milo, Teresa and me.