Dressed resplendently in a blue suit with a not-in-anyway-matching Hawaiian-style flowery garland around his neck, Mr Balls was pictured cutting some fairly gruesome Gangnam-style shapes at Labour's annual diversity evening.
On the other hand, there remain all the old concerns: just because a parent can oversee any cyber-bullying, posting of unkind pictures, cutting remarks or just plain failures to "like" on a 10-year-old's page, doesn't mean the child, or the parent, will know how to deal with them.
But it is unclear whether his view might change if declines elsewhere in the world worsen America's own financial picture by cutting into American exports -- one of the keys to growth in the United States.
If you've every tried to crop a photo (and in the age of Instagram, who hasn't?) or simply adjust the horizon line, you know how hard it can be to find just the right crop that allows you to focus on what you want to highlight in a picture without cutting other important parts out of it or leaving you with white edges.
I pictured myself cutting lush peony-style tulips in late April: Carnaval de Nice, whose white petals are flamed with dark red; Maywonder, a deep rose; and Mount Tacoma, which is pure ivory.
Not knowing why new people were there, he pictured them cutting his head off with a blunt blade.
If I'm honest, we were literally picture-cutting and sound-editing 18 or 24 hours before [the South by Southwest premiere in March].
"The underlying details of the January retail sales report paint a picture of consumers cutting back on discretionary spending," wrote Richard F. Moody, chief economist at Mission Residential in Austin, Tex., in a research note.
Riley has watched Countdown since childhood - somewhere in the archives there is a picture of her cutting a birthday cake modelled on the famous Countdown clock at her sixth birthday party - and she had a Countdown ringtone on her mobile.
First and foremost, not a single report from any credible source has ever painted a picture that cord cutting is having, nor will have, any impact on the industry.
