Mommyjacking

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Mommyjacking is an internet slang term referring to the practice of parents hijacking social media threads to talk about their own children.

Origin

The Tumblr blog STFUParents[6] is widely cited for popularizing the term "mommyjacking." On March 13th, 2009, the blog began highlighting social media posts made by parents who overshare or interrupt threads with information about their children.

Spread

On January 13th, 2010, Urban Dictionary[1] user Sloan3 submitted an entry for "mommyjacking," defining it as when a mother hijacks a conversation to talk about her children.

TOP DEFINITION MommyJacking When a person's conversation/comments/Facebook status is followed up with something about their friend's children, when it has nothing to do with the conversation. The "Mommy" just wants to steal the conversation to speak about their children. As defined on stfuparents.tumblr.com A classic MommyJacking "DidI tell you where I went to dinner?" Oh that reminds me, little Johnny did the cutest thing at Red Robin last night!! He ran screaming around with a balloon for an hour!" #mom jacking #parentjacking #motherjacking #mommyhijacking #momhijacking by Sloan3 January 13, 2010 BUY THE MUG BUY THE TSHIRT 37

In January 2012, two entries for the phrase "mommy jacked" were submitted to Urban Dictionary.[4] On May 3rd, 2013, the pop culture blog Semiproper[7] highlighted several examples of mommyjacking on Facebook. On September 18th, 2014, Redditor amomentalone submitted a screenshot of a mommyjacking Instagram comment to /r/childfree[8] (shown below). On On January 27th, 2015, the parenting blog Mom.me[5] published a slideshow of mommyjacking Facebook posts.

On December 29th, 2016, Redditor SpaztheSub submitted a screenshot of a Facebook post in which a mother responds to a recent Stanford Graduate's update by saying "You haven't learned anything yet. Become a parent and see" to /r/childfree[3] (shown below). Over the next two weeks, the post received more than 1,700 points (90% upvoted) and 90 comments.

On January 11th, 2017, Redditor SheZowRaisedByWolves submitted a post asking about the definition of mommyjacking to /r/OutOfTheLoop,[2] which gathered more than 7,600 points (91% upvoted) and 1,000 comments in the first 48 hours.

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External References

[1] Urban Dictionary – MommyJacking

[2] Reddit – What is mommyjacking

[3] Reddit – Mommy jacking 101

[4] Urban Dictionary – Mommy jacked

[5] Mom.me – Mommyjacking

[6] STFUParents – STFU Parents

[7] Semiproper – mommyjacking

[8] Reddit – Epic mommyjacking of Lauren Conrads childfree wedding



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