I consider myself pretty in the loop on social marketing trends, so you can imagine my surprise just now when I received TotSpot.com friend requests from my own children. They're two years and four months old.

Yup. About the same age as my youngest, TotSpot is apparently the Myspace of the diaper brigade and my two boys are now (by way of their early-adopter dad) "networking" away with cousins and friends. Heavy on privacy (phew) and light on detailed profile information (another phew), TotSpot seems to be hurtling the wee ones into the center of social networking culture.

Not sure how I feel being a "friend" of my kids, but so far the site seems like a safe, fun forum to keep friends and family members up to date on the lives of little ones.

- Erica