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'Times' Creepy Mom Sends Her Kids Naughty Facebook Gifts

Oh noes: Fortune executive editor Josh Quittner's wife Michelle Slatalla is still writing her column about 'computers: who knew!' for the Times. Today, she revisits well-worn territory: How much her daughters hate her for cramping their style on Facebook. But she's upped the ante considerably now that she's discovered something called "apps." "The discovery of the existence of Naughty Gifts proved I was, once again, out of touch," Michelle writes. How to remedy? Adding as many apps as possible, starting "poo fights" with her husband, and sending her teenage daughters virtual rubber blow-up dolls. "Oh, my God, you are so creepy," one of them told her, before hanging up the phone on her. Heartwarming!

These Naughty Gifts Don't Clutter a Closet [NYT]

4:35 PM on Thu Nov 8 2007
By Emily Gould
2,976 views, 61 comments

Latest by JeannieGrrl: My kids are on my facebook friend list and they think its cool that I'm not a pink sweatsuit wearing, more »

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'Business 2.0' Finally Dead

Despite the protests of literally twos of thousands of Facebook members, Time Inc. has kicked Business 2.0 to the curb. According to an unusually emotive blog post in the Times and its dry print follow-up, editor Josh Quittner and nine staffers will be shuffled over to Fortune. (The rest of 'em will be sending you resumes when the kill teams are done a-killing.) We'd be bitchy about this, but it always sucks for actual real people when a company runs a magazine into the red and then won't let a willing buyer turn it into a competitive product. The only silver lining: Mrs. Quittner, AKA Michelle Slatalla, the Times' Andy Rooney-of-the-internet, will have plenty to columnize about now with these hubby troubles!

8:42 PM on Tue Sep 4 2007
By Choire
1,058 views, 4 comments

Latest by jollytime: Business 2.0 was John Huey's Alberto Gonzales. more »

Michelle Slatalla's Daughter Hates Her So Much Right Now The Times' "families use computers now" beat reporter, Facebook-loving helicopter mom Michelle Slatalla, is having another rough week. One of her little ones is leaving the nest!

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phoning it in

Male 'Times' Columnist Discovers Housework

This week, Michael Winerip's New York Times Parenting column focuses on a wild phenomenon. It turns out that when you work at home, sometimes you actually have to, like, take care of the house! Crazy. (Seriously, this guy makes their online-life columnist Michelle Slatalla look like Frank Rich.) You remember Winerip; he's the Times writer exiled to the lonely Regionals section, where he can safely muse about the fact that his kids aren't getting into Harvard from his comfortable Long Island perch. More »

12:20 PM on Mon Aug 27 2007
By Doree Shafrir
4,141 views, 30 comments

Latest by TheLorax: Fuck it, classicists correct the reference if necessary, but here's the Lysistrata for our times: women stipulate a) no more »

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Didja Hear? Michelle Slatalla's House Is Worth A Lot Of Money!

New York Times columnist in charge of spending way, way too much time online and then writing about it Michelle Slatalla has moved on from her old habit of stalking her children online because she's found a new way to use the web to feed her OCD: Keeping day-to-day, moment-to-moment tabs on the enormous value of her home.

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6:00 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By Emily Gould
6,210 views, 24 comments

Latest by SwampPoonKing: Can't we get NYC Children's Services to remove Ms. Slatalla's clearly terrified kids from her home? Plus it would free more »

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Caitlin Flanagan Is A Worse Mom Than Michelle Slatalla

As the Times' "Cyberfamilias" columnist Michelle Slatalla knows, the new hotness is stalking your own children online. In an article in the latest Atlantic Monthly, chillingly subtitled "Anyone could be tracking your children online—even me," reviled housewifeliness-advisor Caitlin Flanagan is getting in on the action, and, well, seriously biting Michelle's styles. Not to mention revealing, as the kids say, TMI.
Once my interfering children had been packed off to school, I made myself a nice cup of coffee and logged on [to Club Penguin]. I chose a pink penguin, and because no versions of my real name were available, I picked one of my mother's nicknames for me. But—O, hated Internet, and its font of unwanted knowledge—even that turned out to be taken, so I had to be "Tootsabella2."
O, hated Internet indeed. More »

1:40 PM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By Emily Gould
3,425 views, 34 comments

Latest by mmh: I hate her so much. The good news is that I hate her so much she has no power more »

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'Times' Columnists Cry On Each Others' Shoulders

Judith Warner's 'Domestic Disturbances' TimesSelect blog-column grows increasingly, well, disturbing. Buckling under the stress of "two grade-parent cocktail parties, one all-school gala, a Spring Fling, three music recitals" and other trials, she offers this confession: "I have, there's no question, gone off my gourd." Luckily for her, colleague David Brooks is perfectly willing to be her ad-hoc therapist. More »

3:55 PM on Fri Jun 8 2007
By Emily Gould
1,899 views, 1 comment

Latest by N/A: The die is cast. All the neuroses of Judith Warner cannot stave off the inevitable: Her children, assembled like a more »

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Michelle Slatalla Is A Super Creepy Adult

It's only the second installment of Michelle Slatalla's "Cyberfamilias" Times column, which is about how she tortures her family via the Internet, and already she has discovered social networking. No one is happy about this, least of all her teenage daughter: "'You won't get away with this,' she typed. 'everyone in the whole world thinks its super creepy when adults have facebooks.'" In search of refutation, Michelle consulted some of her experts: "Although he didn't go so far as to say he disapproved of my parenting skills, Professor Wesch reminded me that what Facebook's younger users really are doing is exploring their identities, which they may not want to parade in front of their parents. 'Can't I explore my identity, too?' I asked. 'Why does everything fun have to be for them?'" Um. Also: "'I can't really comment on your family dynamics,' said Brandee Barker, a Facebook spokeswoman." Michelle, you creep, get off the Internet before it tears your family apart! More »

11:31 AM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By Emily Gould
5,959 views, 36 comments

Latest by Trackback: In yesterday's "cyberfamilas" column in the Times, cybermom Michelle Stlatalla addressed something I'm sure she's not the only one asking more »

the new york times is just a fancy blog

Michelle Slatalla Will Keep Teaching You To Google

Times columnist Michelle Slatalla and Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner live together in wedded bliss, but according to an announcement in today's paper, they also "live in I.M. windows on each other's screens." That's why Michelle's "Online Shopper" column is now called "Cyberfamilias." From now on, she's going to write about how Information Superhighway has changed "almost every chapter of family life." Her inaugural column examines how sometimes kids search for medical information online, leading to humorous misdiagnoses like "strip throat" and "sick as hell anemia." Nothing, oddly, about homespun saccharine folksiness-borne diabetes. Also, some experts weigh in: "'Now more than ever, search engines are absolutely central to how people search,' said Susannah Fox, associate director at the Pew Internet and American Life Project." OH FOR PETE'S SAKE. More »

3:10 PM on Thu May 24 2007
By Emily Gould
706 views, 4 comments

Latest by Diglett: Now more than ever, search engines reveal the mindblowingly retarded ubiquity of the phrase 'Now more than ever' in trend more »

who are these people?

Josh Quittner and Michelle Slatalla

Josh Quittner is the editor of Business 2.0. Michelle Slatalla is responsible for the New York Times' inexplicable "Online Shopper" column, a collection of hyperlinks well-gussied up with advice on how to Google things that for some reason appears in that paper's print edition on Thursdays. In it, you can learn how to buy English muffins that cost five dollars. Five dollars. Michelle and Josh are married to each other! Boy, are they ever. More »

1:37 PM on Fri May 11 2007
By Emily Gould
4,308 views, 21 comments

Latest by oberry: Kudos to Gawker for sussing these 2 annoysters out. I knew them from earlier days at the dawn of more »