MOVE OVER MY SPACE

Gen-X parents have their space online now

The Record - June 2, 2008
BY EVELYN SHIH
STAFF WRITER

Chris Schwartz’s child isn’t due until September. But girl or boy, Virgo or Libra, the littlest Schwartz has already been the subject of adoration in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Texas and New Zealand.

Schwartz has been posting sonograms on his personal page at Famzam.com, a new family-friendly networking site founded by Anthony Lamme of Oakland. Like many Generation-X parents, the 35-year-old Schwartz has incorporated the Internet in his parenting — even before his child is born.

“I like to think we have the youngest social networking child in the world, at five months before birth,” said Schwartz, a Linden native.

For Gen-X parents in North Jersey, it’s no longer enough to use resources on the Internet passively. Several thirty- and fortysomethings have used their Web savvy to create sites that are a new space for their generation, apart from that of the dominant youth culture.

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