Babies and Facebook

As I get older *sigh*, it seems as though more and more of my friends are jumping on to the baby bandwagon.  I know it was inevitable but that still doesn’t mean I have to like it.  Facebook has obviously allowed a lot of us to keep in touch with current and past connections and this can be a good…and bad thing.  Below are just a few observations I’ve noticed on my daily FB newsfeed.

1. 4-D ultrasound pictures or any ultrasound/sonogram picture for that matter as your Facebook profile picture. And it begins…  Not only are they creepy as hell (everyone with me on this?), but this is step one of losing your identity to anything outside of being a parent.  Great.  We get it.  You’re happy you’re with child, but do you really have to turn it into your profile photo?  I’m not saying you can’t post them at all, but from now on whenever I think of you, I’m just going to associate you with a squishy-looking sepia blob, and is that what you want?  (Although we know the answer for some people out there).
2. Status TMI.  Obviously, TMI comes in various forms but I’m just talking about anything baby related that I just didn’t need to know about.  Mothers seem to be more guilty of this than fathers are.  There were two offending ones that occurred this week that spring to mind.  One girl brought up that she couldn’t decide whether to go pump some breastmilk (and then a slew of mommies responded with all sorts of “supply” tips…ugh).  The next one talked about how good a mother she must be because she didn’t even mind holding out her hands to catch her daughter’s vomit.  Eww.  Eww. Eww!  I have a bad habit of checking Facebook on my Blackberry before I even hop out of bed in the mornings (or stumble out of…) and this is something that I couldn’t handle fully prepared, much less before I’ve had a shower and a cup (or three) of coffee.
3. Status Comment Hijacking. We’ve all seen it.  Someone posts something absolutely benign and all it takes is for one person to make a comment, another person to ask commenting person about their kids and it’s like a runaway train.  People take over the poor person’s original status by writing novels about their kids.  People, that’s great if you want to know about someone else’s family/life, but email or send them a private message about it.  It’s annoying to read comments on my wall about someone else asking someone else if their child is potty trained yet.

Obviously, there are more offenses being committed out there on a regular basis.  What are some that you all have encountered?

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