Can we discuss parents and social media?

laceybird

I had never heard of STFU, Parents until I came here. Thanks for introducing me to something else that's going to distract me from things I should be doing, lol.

Emmy1493

Almost all of my friends have kids, and that is basically ALL my news feed. SO you know what? If your allowed to blow up my feed with your kids, I am going to blow yours up with my cats!

sarahufl

My sister had a few miscarriages, so she was on social media lock-down once she finally got pregnant. There was absolutely no indication on any of her social media sites that she was pregnant. When my niece was born, they put up a photo as an announcement.

Random girl from high school who has meticulously documented her several miscarriages, trouble conceiving, etc ALL OVER FB. Responded "omg! I had no idea you were pregnant, how did I miss this?"

Um, you haven't spoken in 12 years? No need to put everything out there, people.

erinlin25

blah, this annoys me too!  Every now and then it is totally cool and personally since I do not get to see my nieces and nephews frequently I enjoy the pic or cute video every now and then.  But when it is TMI and just constant play by play that makes me stabby.  Thank goodness my best friends and SILS are not overboard, but I definitely have acquaintances that do this and I question deleting them.

misscoffeeplease

I'm a parent and in the beginning, I use to AW the crap out of my daughter when she was a newborn. Goodness, she was a itty bitty baby newborn. I didn't care what anyone thought. I was just very proud.;-) I use my Instagram to post pictures of her but it's not excessive. I know my limits. I don't post potty training pictures. For the love of GOD, if you intend on having any children in the future....PLEASE REFRAIN from updating that or talking about shitty poopy diapers.

MobKaz

Maggie0829 said:

I have issues with those parents that use their kids pictures as their profile pictures.  Pretty sure the last time I checked this is your FB page not your kids.

I am not a parent but from what I have seen from other friends on FB is that parents (espeically Mothers) tend to lose themselves and then everything under the sun circles around their kid.  Now I know that children are everything to their parents but just because you are a parent doesn't mean that you still aren't you and you still don't have other interests or hobbies.  I want to see what is going on in your life, not every single waking moment of your kids.  I know kids are a big part of that life but are you telling me that you have absolutely nothing else going on in your own life except taking pictures of little Jimmy's first poop? 

Not gonna lie.  I do this quite often.  They're frankly a lot easier on the eyes....

pinkcow13

She posted a pic of her kid's poop?! WTF is wrong with people.

And that really annoys me. My cousin does this. Every damn pic on her IG is a pic of her kids. I really don't need to see picture or videos of your kid watching tv, or picking at his boogers. To each his own I guess.

Senecaf

I am not an over poster. Probably once a week but it is 50% of the time going be my kids. If not my kids it's my gym selfies, the books we are reading or some food.

A lot of mom's do lose themselves when they have kids. No offense to SAHMs, I did my time. But there is not a lot else going on socially. Your social life is online or with your kids. So they go together. Too much. Obnoxiously.

OnceUponSnow

The only thing that comes to my mind when I see all these pictures of children displayed on the Internet is that, not so long ago, when I used to be one of the only teenager to have a computer and Internet at home among my friends (1998), that my father used to tell me the Internet was filled with dangerous people who could find information about me, so NEVER put your picture online and do not share personal details like the name of your school, which city you live in, etc. 

I'm still extremely careful and I basically don't share pictures of my face on the Internet, not even Facebook. 

I don't mean to overly criticize parents, but it does concern me that their kids are all over their social media. As an adult, you can choose how much you want to ''risk'' your privacy - not as a kid.