Women leaving the past behind?...

dizziblonde

I very very rarely post photos of the baby up on FB - only exceptionally cute ones, or one every month or so for people like my brother (who can't get to see us often with the distance and his work being nuts) to see how she's doing. When she'd just been born and was in the hospital I did post a lot of statuses about her then - but it was more a means of keeping a lot of people updated with her progress coming out of NICU and onto the ward at once rather than having to make a million phonecalls to individual people every few days.

Certain things are completely never going on my FB wall - bowel movements being number 1 and so on down the line!

Used to work with a few children with higher-functioning autism - I actually really liked their way of looking at the world at times.

Person_one

colleensims wrote: »

That is the whole point....they are prob funny, but only to you and family, who see the 'cute' side in everything your little ray of sunshine does.
To everyday people without kids....like me, its not that interesting!

....ps, that website is funny! x

I don't have kids but I don't mind seeing the occasional genuinely funny or cute status/photo about my friend's kids. Children can be funny and/or cute, no denying it!

Its when its a constant bombardment or completely banal that it irritates me.

Have a look here for great examples of kid-related posts: http://www.stfuparentsblog.com/tagged/Mom's%20Gold%20Star

littlerat

A school friend of mine has just had a baby and is posting a lot, I imagine it's just handier than talking individually to all the various people outside the family who want to know it all!

That said it's different for a newborn and the ones who later on are all about their kids I find.. odd. You also get the grannies who do the same. They may be worse.

But I can't say a lot, half my status updates are about my pets...

I think it's natural we all post more about the important things in our lives. For me that's often pets, for mothers it's often their kids and for single men it's usually their cars. Or alcohol.

VestanPance

I don't have children, but don't have an issue with friends posting pictures or stories about their children. I welcome the happiness their kids have brought them and the celebration of their family unit, no matter how banal that may seem to some.

I personally find those that have had a family of their own far better company than the 30 somethings that still want to act like they are 18, out clubbing and getting drunk every weekend. Now that is boring, but not as half as boring as the how drunk I was at the weekend story every Monday morning.

On the Facebook angle the worst offenders are those dumb images so many link to with a "repost/like this if you agree".

peachyprice

Person_one wrote: »

I just find it interesting that there are so many women in the world with surnames that are so unattractive, so difficult to spell or pronounce that they feel they have to ditch them when they marry (but oddly never by deed poll when single) but so few men. I've literally never heard of a man change his name on marriage for those reasons.

My BIL did. Rather he changed his surname to his mother's maiden name before he married, because he didn't want his children to be saddled with the awful surname he had been teased about all his life.

Person_one

peachyprice wrote: »

My BIL did. Rather he changed his surname to his mother's maiden name before he married, because he didn't want his children to be saddled with the awful surname he had been teased about all his life.

Thanks, good to know they do exist!