Facebook and children

patchwork_cat

Gleeful wrote: »

I wasn't on about !!!!!philes actually. It makes me uncomfortable because that child was ill, and its mother decided that posting a picture of him unwell on Facebook was a good idea.

Why? Not a dig, just don't know what is wrong with it. I am assuming ofcourse that the child isn't very unwell. I do see it is in bad taste, but is there anything else you feel is wrong with it?

Lil_Me_2

My Gran has a photo of me when I was 2/3 starkers standing on the kitchen table. She tried to give it to my cousin who is a few years older than me, fortunately he decided that it wasn't appropriate for a 20 something male to have those kind of photos but my Gran still thinks the photo is great and doesn't see the fuss lol.

smithyjules

Gleeful wrote: »

I wasn't on about !!!!!philes actually. It makes me uncomfortable because that child was ill, and its mother decided that posting a picture of him unwell on Facebook was a good idea.

Gleeful, I don't think I would put those pics on of my children, although I have put plenty of funny/sweet ones on there (with strict privacy settings). I have a few work collegues on my friends list who added me and it gets akward if you don't accept them. I have no interest in reading the 101 status updates where they run down their other half, family, friends, whoever else they feel like being horrid about so I have found a way to hide all posts by those people. On one of their status updates on the news feed if you hover over it at the top right and click on the cross it comes up with a few options, one of which is hide all posts. V handy if you can't be bothered to read drivel and/or deal with the drama of de-friending (is this even a word lol??) someone.

HTH

Gleeful

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Why? Not a dig, just don't know what is wrong with it. I am assuming ofcourse that the child isn't very unwell. I do see it is in bad taste, but is there anything else you feel is wrong with it?

As an adult I wouldn't want anyone to post a picture of me very unwell on the internet. However, I am able to voice that. A two year old may be limited in being able to express that they don't want their picture on the internet. He may not even have been asked.

Besides that, why on earth did she think her Facebook friends would want to see a picture of their sick child??

patchwork_cat

Gleeful wrote: »

As an adult I wouldn't want anyone to post a picture of me very unwell on the internet. However, I am able to voice that. A two year old may be limited in being able to express that they don't want their picture on the internet. He may not even have been asked.

Besides that, why on earth did she think her Facebook friends would want to see a picture of their sick child??

Fair enough. However don't you think that people do some very weird things that you wouldn't do? Like people who are intelligent and yet talk about puerile nonsense on FB.

jellyhead

especially when it's eviction night on big brother/xfactor/whatever ...

I am guilty of having very lowbrow facebook conversations about Downton Abbey. I don't know anyone local who watches it, so I talk to my old uni mates.

patchwork_cat

jellyhead wrote: »

especially when it's eviction night on big brother/xfactor/whatever ...

I am guilty of having very lowbrow facebook conversations about Downton Abbey. I don't know anyone local who watches it, so I talk to my old uni mates.

Downtown is a different kettle of fish to TOWIE! or the latest fight down the pub!

jellyhead

Is it though? We discussed this in the pub once when I laughed at a friend for being late because he was watching big brother. He reckons that at least that reality TV stuff is real, whereas the dramas that I watch are fiction, so I'm the one who's wasting my time says he.

patchwork_cat

No they are fiction, too! The difference is the thought that goes into the ' fiction' and the IQ of the person writing it!

*Louise*

Gleeful wrote: »

Besides that, why on earth did she think her Facebook friends would want to see a picture of their sick child??

Because she wanted all the sympathy from all of her friends.

Some people are complete drama queens on facebook and want all the attention they can milk from every situation.