Sometimes I wonder what in Internet’s name you people are thinking. How is it possible we live in a world that is capable of sending people to space, turning DNA into art, 3D printing and at the same time … we have TweetPee.
I’ll save you the two minutes of your life you might waste going to the website desperately trying to find some clue that it’s a joke: It is real, and it is an app that tweets at you when your kid pees and needs to be changed. I cannot – nay, would not, ever, I promise – make this up.
The whole “people with kids need uber-specific social platforms!” thing is a joke.
Get. This. Shit. Out of here.
If you’re using a Twitter app to let you know that your child has peed (gross, gross, gross, I hate everything and everyone for making me have to type that), you are unarguably doing it wrong. Put down the phone and pick up the diaper. Log the eff off, OK? Nothing anyone is tweeting is more important than acting like a normal person and just you know, getting your offspring out of his or her own filth the good-old-fashioned way.
And unfortunately, it’s not just TweetPee. Take for instance, Cry Translator. It tells you what type of crying your kid is making. I can’t decide if I love or hate the idea of a parent pointing an iPhone at a sobbing, screaming heap of baby trying to figure out what all the crying means. Nope, I can decide: Yes, it’s hilarious. Yes, it’s messed up. Pick up your damn kid! Shake some keys at it! Stop pointing your phone at it, asshole! Your baby’s probably crying because it’s been incessantly tweeting at you that it needs to be changed.
(New game, everyone: Go out into the Twitterverse, find these TweetPee-produced tweets, and RT the hell out of them. OK, go!)
Whoever is out there thinking, “Well hot damn, do I have an idea tech-savvy parents will love!” and inventing this crap needs to get some serious perspective. Like go live in the desert for a year, or do some serious soul-searching on top of a mountain, or help homeless dogs in Mexico … because you are a monster.
These things are on the far, far side of parents-meet-Internet insanity, but even the more acceptable things being created in this vein are very not OK. The whole “people with kids need uber-specific social platforms!” thing is a joke. No, we don’t need a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram for people with children – ESPECIALLY when we damn well know they are going to hit the “push to Facebook” button every single time. Don’t pretend like you all want to keep pictures of the human you made for a small audience to see – you want me and my 20 proverbial cats to see it too, don’t lie.
Don’t let them do this to us! Don’t let the app developers trying to squeegee any remaining, untapped usefulness out of social networking play us against each other. Because they are: They are playing us like fiddles. They are trying to convince us that there is a silent, digital war between the Have-babies and the Have-nots. “You guys, you totally need a baby-only Instagram! Screw pictures of Jello shots, amirite?” or “Man, how much do you hate infants? This app replaces them with Game of Thrones memes, you singleton you!” ENOUGH.
Let’s all just use the same platforms and networks and apps and stop hatin’ because it’s not cute.
Especially you, TweetPee users. All one of you.
