Apps

I sign into Facebook pretty frequently. I play a *lot* of Scrabulous. So, when I signed in this morning and was greeted by this in my mini-feed, I was a little disturbed:

"Molly has made a baby with Michelle! Click here to make a baby!"

Facebook now has an app to make babies. Lesbian babies? It's possible! Options are "Make a baby alone", "Make a baby together", and "Adopt a baby." I know because I just added the app to figure out what the hell is going on. Answer? Creepy baby-making.

"Edit Your Genetic Profile, it will be used when you Make A Baby with friends.Your genetic profile, along with your mate's, is used by our application to determine the features of your baby."

Apparently this is what my baby will look like. I'm glad she'll be 3 years old at birth. I'm sure that'll save me some trouble. I think my favorite thing about this app is the options. You get to name it, talk about its activities (mine really enjoys rock climbing and sodoku), and then you can give it away! Perhaps best of all is when you're done creating this thing, you get to click a button that says "SAVE MY BABY!" That's pretty hilarious.

So I guess what I'm saying is that soon you won't have to do anything off-line. Including procreate. And though the app is wicked creepy in principle, what comes out isn't nearly as creepy as these bad boys. Because holy crap really who buys those?