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It's Hannah Again. Should We Take This?

Plug your digits into a special site and you, too, can hear "personally" from HaMo. (Hannahmontanacalls.com)

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Parents provide their own contact information -- as well as a phone number for their kids, which seems to go against the whole "Children, don't give out your personal info to strangers" dictum. But maybe this is less of an issue when the stranger is a disembodied Hannah Montana? Or when the choices are (a) Give your kid's phone number to a stranger or (b) Fight the "Oh yes, you are going to your violin lesson" battle without the help of a teen superstar.

Data-mined-to-death parents, we read your mind and already asked: The world's largest retailer says that all personal information "will be used exclusively for the purposes of scheduling your child's wake-up call." Oh, and there's that confirmation e-mail containing promotional shopping links.

About 28,600 parents so far -- 2,548 in one recent 24-hour span, said a publicist for the promotion -- have decided that potential loss of privacy was a worthy trade-off.

But alas, on our first trial run, Her Royal Montananess totally flaked out -- she was supposed to remind the call recipient to go to play practice, but instead gave the standard wake-up call.

Choose your own wry observation:

(1) What else can you expect from a 15-year-old virtual babysitter? Bet she lets the kids drink Red Bull before bed, too.

(2) Faux intimacy aside, guess we're not as tight with HaMo as we thought.

:-(

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It's Hannah Again. Should We Take This?

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