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Fred Wilson on Raising Kids - Tweet, Blog and Eat Your Vegetables

26 points by bproper 15y ago

keiferski 15y ago
Meh, I'd rather have my kids(if I had any) create something of value, not just be on top of the latest web fad. Will a collection of tweets be worth keeping in 10 years? Of course, the argument could be made that Twitter/Tumblr are the modern day journal, but I'm not really buying that, primarily because there is no privacy.
- zmitri 15y ago
  100% with you on this. The vast majority of twitter users are in it for the promotion. Kids don't need to promote themselves to those outside of their core group of friends/school. That's one of the reasons I think Twitter took off with more mature demographics, where as Facebook started off with much a younger demographic. Honestly, I use twitter like a notepad/news feed, not to disseminate information to my few followers in real time and I admit there is no real value to it.
  - bproper 15y ago
    Having a great presence on social media platforms clearly helps with networking and building personal projects, whether that's a VC fund or a photography portfolio. These kids will learn the boundaries of public and private sooner and have a great megaphone for promoting whatever it is they choose to do in life.
    - moheeb 15y ago
      A megaphone is useless when everyone has one.
Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
And can we please let VCs and Tech Luminaries be just that, and not be an authority in how to bring up our children, or the value of college education? Will it take another bust for us to take them off their pedestal? By all means, lets celebrate the value they have added to the startup ecosystem and the technologies they have enabled in coming to fruition. But for the sake of everything sacred, lets stop taking parental advice from them. Most of us, I am sure, have pretty good parents to look up to, rather than relying on a blog post or a tweet to glean parental advice.
- truthseeker 15y ago
  I didn't see any advice there. I agree with your point about not taking advice from successful people about everything. It irks me whenever Einstein is quoted on God. Einstein himself probably never intended the quote to be abused the way it is tossed around these days.
corin_ 15y ago
The new title for this HN submission is a bit misleading. The article is basically a puff piece designed to give an insight into the family of a well known person, it's not designed as advice to parents or Fred Wilson telling people how to raise kids.
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ethank 15y ago
afeakejkkkadsjfjkasdjfkjsdfkjsjdfs Sorry, my two year old was logged into Hacker News.

26 points by bproper 15y ago

Meh, I'd rather have my kids(if I had any) create something of value, not just be on top of the latest web fad. Will a collection of tweets be worth keeping in 10 years? Of course, the argument could be made that Twitter/Tumblr are the modern day journal, but I'm not really buying that, primarily because there is no privacy.

zmitri 15y ago
100% with you on this. The vast majority of twitter users are in it for the promotion. Kids don't need to promote themselves to those outside of their core group of friends/school. That's one of the reasons I think Twitter took off with more mature demographics, where as Facebook started off with much a younger demographic. Honestly, I use twitter like a notepad/news feed, not to disseminate information to my few followers in real time and I admit there is no real value to it.
- bproper 15y ago
  Having a great presence on social media platforms clearly helps with networking and building personal projects, whether that's a VC fund or a photography portfolio. These kids will learn the boundaries of public and private sooner and have a great megaphone for promoting whatever it is they choose to do in life.
  - moheeb 15y ago
    A megaphone is useless when everyone has one.

Cherian_Abraham 15y ago

And can we please let VCs and Tech Luminaries be just that, and not be an authority in how to bring up our children, or the value of college education? Will it take another bust for us to take them off their pedestal? By all means, lets celebrate the value they have added to the startup ecosystem and the technologies they have enabled in coming to fruition. But for the sake of everything sacred, lets stop taking parental advice from them. Most of us, I am sure, have pretty good parents to look up to, rather than relying on a blog post or a tweet to glean parental advice.

truthseeker 15y ago
I didn't see any advice there. I agree with your point about not taking advice from successful people about everything. It irks me whenever Einstein is quoted on God. Einstein himself probably never intended the quote to be abused the way it is tossed around these days.

corin_ 15y ago

The new title for this HN submission is a bit misleading. The article is basically a puff piece designed to give an insight into the family of a well known person, it's not designed as advice to parents or Fred Wilson telling people how to raise kids.

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ethank 15y ago

afeakejkkkadsjfjkasdjfkjsdfkjsjdfs Sorry, my two year old was logged into Hacker News.