We read a lot: novels, textbooks, blogs, billboards, crock pot manuals, tweets, whatever. It takes a ton of material to feed our voracious appetites.

Ellen: So I was reading a book that Erin recommended, as I am wont to do. She recommends books like she breathes: she must do it to survive.

Erin: So which one?

Ellen: This time it was The Fever by Megan Abbott.

Erin: That one put a whole different spin on mean girls. I found the dynamics of group psychology . . .

Ellen: Wait! That’s not what I wanted to talk about! I know you are Queen of the Tangents, but I’m going to borrow your scepter for a moment. I want to talk about an article Megan recommended to me.

Erin: Whoa. Clearly you are excluding me from a group of friends I REALLY want to be a part of. Hook. Me. Up.

Ellen: Well, she recommended it to me and 8,000 of her closest friends on Twitter. I saw her handle in her bio and jumped over to check her out. There I saw a link to this article that has been bouncing around in my head ever since: Shutterbug Parents and Overexposed Lives.

Erin: Those are some interesting points to ponder brought up in that article!

Like: “Are shutterbug parents wiping away their mental databases of experiences with their offspring while bulking up their digital ones?”

Ellen: And this one: “When children grow up reviewing thousands of pictures and hours of video of their young lives, will these images supersede their memories?”

Erin: So many questions, so much to say. This feels like the perfect time for a podcast.

Ellen: True that! Listen to what we have to say and tell us what you think in the comments. My husband and I are going on a trip of a lifetime to Paris with our kids and I’m wondering if I will have enough nerve to limit my shutterbug impulses.