Here’s an excerpt:

Once Michelle Villalta of Massapequa started a page for her 2-month-old twins, Cole and Emma, she said she realized how remiss she’d been in recording her 16-month-old’s milestones. “I don’t remember when he did anything,” she says of Tyler. But now, she can easily record Cole’s and Emma’s firsts on their page, because she’s frequently at the computer anyway, she says.

And the sometimes overlooked point of view of our grandparent users:

“What are you, kidding? I love it,” says Maddox’s maternal grandmother, Laurie Allison of Barnegat, N.J. “I play the videos constantly whenever I just want a little cheering up. I could follow my daughter’s life, too, because she writes all her comments on there about what happens. It’s really great. Especially when he’s not around the corner.”

Larry Rosen, author of “Me MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation” was also interviewed for the piece:

[He] called TotSpot “a phenomenal idea. It does what the Internet is supposed to do - which is to find ways to bring people closer.”

It also helps parents to understand what social networking is all about - in preparation for the days when their now-babies will become 7- and 8-year-olds who want to play on their own sites, such as “Club Penguin.” “There is so much fear that has built up around social networking,” Rosen says, which this can help to dispel.

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