Smart Phone – Twit of a user

 by anon

An expectant father-to-be risked the wrath of his wife as his passion for social media led him to spontaneously tweet the birth of their child live from hospital - complete with pictures.

Mum certainly wasn’t the word this week when Aidan McManus from Crosby Merseyside decided to tweet about the birth of his second child live from the delivery suite complete with stylised photographs.

“I made sure she didn’t feel neglected throughout and whilst we didn’t discuss it beforehand, Tracy is used to having a camera pointed in her face since I got into photography,” Aidan said.

If Tracy hasn’t killed him already somebody needs to tell Aidan there’s a slight difference between taking a few happy snaps of your wife pottering around the back garden in her sun dress and the excruciating pain of childbirth and the indignity of wearing a hospital gown with your legs akimbo.

“Given Tracy was busy with the birth, she left it to my discretion to take the photos and share them with my hundreds of followers.”

Poor Aidan, I suppose it must be quite annoying when your wife is ‘busy’ giving birth and you’re just standing around in the delivery room with nothing to do. Thank goodness he found something to keep him occupied. But in Aidan’s bid to share one of life’s most precious moments with the world, whether they were interested or not, how much of it did he actually miss because he was too busy choosing a filter on Instagram or editing his thoughts down to 40 characters?

The introduction of Smartphones has had a profound effect on social media and our ability to share information instantly with anyone who will follow, poke or bookmark us. The problem is we’re so busy crafting the perfect post, tweet or update and applying a photo effect we’re actually in danger of missing the real joy and emotion of the very same moment we’re trying to capture.

Asked if he planned to use his iPhone for other special occasions, Aidan replied that he will do a special montage of the Christening. I will be watching paint dry that day and tweeting about the process if anybody’s interested.