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7% of Babies Have Email Addresses

By age 2, 81% have a digital footprint

By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 7, 2010 8:37 AM CDT

(Newser) – When today's kids enter the job market in 20-something years, would-be employers checking up them may have no trouble finding ... their ultrasound photos. That's because they're leaving a digital trail a mile long, thanks to Mom and Dad. A new study has found that 23% of children had their pre-birth scans posted online. And once those babies leave the womb, things get crazier: 33% have photos uploaded to the Internet from birth; 7% of babies have their very own email address.

Internet security firm AVG, which polled Internet-enabled moms in 10 countries, reports that by age two, 81% of toddlers have some kind of digital footprint.

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Hershey-Squirts
Oct 8, 2010 7:09 PM CDT
This is good news for catholic priests. Now they can send 3 year old dirty messages. :P
vjh
Oct 7, 2010 10:12 AM CDT
This is great news! Now I can e-mail all those little bastards and tell them to stop crying on airplanes and at restaurants. Maybe I can even sell them some cheap shit...because babies are stupid.
flightofphoenix1973
Oct 7, 2010 9:37 AM CDT
Love it or hate it, this is the world we live in. I admit to photos but my twins do not have an email address and I am not sure why they would need one, it would be one more thing for me to check, reply to and manage.
 

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