I'm a jerk, I'll admit that right away, but is it just me or has Facebook turned pregnant women into shameless self promoters? Every time I sign in I get hit by multiple pregnancy posts. Some of the more common posts are listed below, I am just NOT THAT INTERESTED in the details of your pregnancy!
The Weekly Countdown
For some reason pregnant ladies assume that we are as excited for that baby to come out as they are, and so they naturally give us a week by week countdown to the big event. "6 weeks along, I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going by." These are usually accompanied by the all important pregnancy photo taking in profile to emphasize stomach growth. Pregnant ladies love having pictures taken from that angle!
The Baby's Progress Report
From almost the minute of conceiving, prego ladies can't wait to tell us how the baby is progressing. They even have a Facebook app that tells you each week how much like a human your baby is starting to look. "This week your baby is growing eyeballs" complete with creepy illustrations.
The Ultrasound Picture
Last, but certainly not least is the ultrasound picture. The first thing prego ladies do after getting this "babies first picture" taken is to load it onto their Facebook for us all to see. As if all ultrasound pictures didn't look exactly the same - that is to say like aliens under water.
Maybe I'll feel differently when I start having kids of my own, but I doubt that you will - so I promise not to bombard you within details of my pregnancy that you care nothing about!
Question of the day:
Do you care about the pregnancy details of your casual friends, or are you a jerk?
We're pregnant. Eat your heart out Eileen Snow!
ReplyDeleteHaha. Kidding. I completely agree that the weekly update is weird. And the Facebook baby progress app totally grosses me out. So I commit now not to do that.
LOL! You caught me, I'm totally jealous! No but seriously I have nothing against pregnant women, the posts just happened to be my annoyance of the day.
DeleteLOL. I don't have much prego friends at the moment. If I did and this was happening in my news feed, I probably would get sick of it! Haha. I really wouldn't care to know that your baby is growing eyeballs this week and ultrasound pics are super uninteresting.
ReplyDeleteI'm totally a jerk. People can post whatever they want on the interwebs, bu it doesn't mean this cat will pay any attention...unless it's to rant and/or rave on a blog somewhere... ;)
ReplyDeletePregnancy grosses me out. I don't want to see it or hear about it, frankly. I totally agree with you.
ReplyDeleteOh and I don't like being judged by pregnant people....I won't feel like sharing about how my baby is the size of a kumquat and is growing fingernails. Sick.
Totally! I don't hate pregnant women - or pregnancy (although I don't really need to know what is going on in there all the time). I could pass on the over-informative posts. Hopefully pregnant ladies will have a sense of humor about it.
ReplyDeleteOr get pregnant and then gripe how sick and miserable they are! Oh my craps, how freaking annoying. You're not the first person with morning sickness or the last AND you're not the first person who feels like a beached whale and once again you're not the last. I think after having friends that had multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, I've become a little more sensitive to the whole issue. April grosse
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