Keep Your Pregnancy Off Facebook

[Greenday]

Just checked my facebook news feed and what do I see? My cousin's ultrasounds. Why? I don't want to see that shit. That's like the girl I went to high school with posting her stomach every few days on facebook to show off her babybump. Again, don't want to see that shit. I hate having to hide family on facebook. Shouldn't need to but I guess it's necessary.

[insertNameHere]

But, im knocked up AGAIN and the whole world needs to know!!!!!!!! I also love that very few of the girls I know who do the postings you mentioned are married or even have someone remotely close to a baby daddy, actually I would go as far to call a few of the "fathers" of friends' kids sperm donors (sure they may have dated but flaked out ASAP).

I know a few married people who having first or 2nd kid that I have yet to see anything of the sort posted, sure there was a message about being pregnant but not the constant photo updates to stress having a baby..... and can we add in the people who put nothing but baby pictures up? or go as so far to have a facebook just for little JR.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Just wait til the baby is born and she starts posting pictures of baby's first nappy blowout... O_o

Only wish I was joking. Check out STFU Parents, and you'll see what I mean.

[Andara Bledin]

Welcome to social networking.

Honestly, I would expect things like ultrasound shots to show up on Facebook.

Of course, it would be most prudent if the poster did a status update and directed people to their preggers gallery, or with a link to an offsite image host.

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[Boozy]

Are ultrasound photos offensive??

[Ree]

The baby bump pictures are annoying, I admit, especially in the last trimester.

I don't understand what's so offensive about an ultrasound pic, though.

It's her Facebook, and she can post what she wants.
She's pregnant and happy about it.
Where's the crime?

If you don't want to see the pictures, don't look at them.
Block them from your news feed.

Seems simple to me.

[Andara Bledin]

I'd rather see dumps of ultrasound shots and baby bumps than a bunch of people drunk as skunks or other stupid shit that's likely to get them not hired for the next job they apply for, myself.

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[NateSean]

Are ultrasound photos offensive??

I don't think so. I was impressed with how detailed my sister-in-law's ultrasound was. There as absolutely no mistaking the gender. Any more detailed and we could have seen what my nephew would be majoring in when he went to college.

[anakhouri]

It's her Facebook, and she can post what she wants.

Bing bing bing. We have a winner. You hid the feed, problem solved.

I posted ultrasound shots. They looked like blobs attached to other blobs. I didn't post the one that showed Khan's manhood, I figured no one needs to see that.

I don't like pregnant stomachs or drunk people either, so I don't look at them.

I agree pics of your kid's bowel movements and graphic pics of the birth are entirely inappropriate.

[Ginger Tea]

Couple at work have a child and their output is mostly child related.
I don't give a flying about that, I'm new to face book anyways so don't know what it's for, I can't bitch about work as most of my friends listed are co workers.

His family are in Cicily and hers somewhere in Poland, so those members would like to see photo's of far away grandson/nephew, granted hes 6months now and I've only been on facebook a month or so, so I have no idea what kind of output they had pre/post birth, he did at one point have an ultrasound image of his son as his wallpaper on his pc, now hes got a baby pic, but I don't feel swamped by images, I just get told that x pictures have been added to Y album and ignore them as I am not the intended audience.

[guywithashovel]

My sister is pregnant again, and she has posted ultrasound pictures. Like some of the others, I don't see what's so offensive about that. Granted, pictures of bowel movements and other bodily functions are going over the top, but if someone is pregnant, that pregnancy is a very big part of that person's life.

For the most part, pregnancy updates don't seem any more outrageous than people posting what they ate for breakfast that morning, or posting a status like "Sittin' on the couch watchin' a movie with the hubby!"

[LadyBarbossa]

I think people need to learn about moderation when it comes to FB and other social networks. Constant updates about anything is annoying, IMO, and I have hidden people from my feed before just to get away from it. While I also find pregnancy updates irritating, they don't bother me too much unless it's a constant, several times daily stream of "so and so added 15 new pictures to the album "Ultrasounds!", or daily 'baby bump' (ugh, hate that term) pictures. Back when I was still doing the MySpace thing I had a friend who would post, literally, DAILY photos of her pulling her shirt back to display the distended belly and it drove me nuts. You had a one night stand, congratulations. Pardon me if I'm not thrilled to bits over this.

I have another friend who will post dozens of pictures a week of her grandson crawling on the floor, or sitting under a coffee table, or something else equally unspectacular. Sometimes 5 or six in a row with very little difference between pics.

I guess it's just a hazard of the technology we have with social networks and, heaven help us, 3 and 4G mobile phones. But yeah, I also don't really care if you're snuggling with the husband, or what you're cooking for dinner, or that you're bored.

[AdminAssistant]

I don't mind when someone posts ultrasound photos, but I do wish they'd leave off the ones showing the baby's junk. Don't need or want to see that. But...don't make the ultrasound photo (or your kid's photo) your profile pic. That makes the feminist in me go all rowr-y. That's supposed to be a picture of you. A friend of mine gave birth to a baby very, very early (born in June and due in September). Baby's still in NICU, but doing well. But...my god...there's probably 200 pictures there of the poor thing hooked up to tubes, laying in the incubator. A bit overkill, really.

But, none of that is as bad as the people posting diaper blowouts or naked pictures of their child. A friend of mine has a three month old boy, and she posted your typical bath pictures...and covered his junk up with the washcloth, for which I was grateful.

But, for me, nothing is as bad as people posting graphic photos of their injuries. I mean, I'm trying to eat breakfast and suddenly, BAM! a bloody icky photo of someone's nearly severed toe. Gross.

[LadyBarbossa]

I don't mind when someone posts ultrasound photos, but I do wish they'd leave off the ones showing the baby's junk. Don't need or want to see that. But...don't make the ultrasound photo (or your kid's photo) your profile pic. That makes the feminist in me go all rowr-y.

Ah, that's another one. So many people miss the 'Face' part of Facebook. It's irritating to see a painting, or their pet, or kids, or . . . grandchildren even. Or their VEHICLE. A friend of mine had a baby a little over a year ago and her whole identity is completely gone. It's never "Come over so we can hang out", it's "Come over so you can meet Connor!" or an invite to his birthday party, and I haven't seen a picture of her on FB since she was pregnant. I don't care if it's a picture of you along with the other person/dog/cat/sheep/horse/baby/truck, but yeah. This is especially irksome when people send friend requests and I don't have a damn clue who it is because it's a picture of something else.

[Andara Bledin]

I find it sad that people even care about a baby's "junk." This is a societal problem that is tied to body issues and puritanism, for the most part.

As for profile pics, I think about 1/3 of the people in my list even have people pics at all, and more than a few are of their children as opposed to themselves. The other 2/3 have either art of some kind or pets or no profile picture at all.

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