CAUGHT IN the web
Have you heard the one about the woman who was so addicted to Instagram she didn’t notice her eight-month-old baby had fallen down the stairs? It’s actually no joke: this horrifying accident happened last year to a London mother of two, who admitted to UK media she was mindlessly scrolling through her phone and “sucked into the Instagram vacuum” when her baby crawled onto the landing.
“I heard a thud, then a cry,” said the 34-year-old. “Transfixed by my phone, my brain took a couple of seconds to realise that she’d tumbled down the stairs. I hadn’t even noticed she was out of sight.”
Fortunately, the baby was fine, her fall broken by the steps. However, the woman was not. “I was riddled with guilt,” she said. “I could have hurt or killed my child, and for what? For some meaningless nonsense on social media.”
As anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of social media knows, it’s easy to get sucked into a vortex of holiday snaps,
