to find it a bit weird when parents set up a facebook account for their baby

[chaya5738]

A friend has just done this. She writes messages, status updates, and photo comment as if she is her baby.

I find it all a bit odd. I mean, she isn't actually her baby...

And perhaps her baby doesn't actually agree with her delighted exclamations at photos of other people's children or couldn't care less that someone's baby is wearing the same bib that she also has.

What will happen when her child is old enough to want their own facebook account. Will they take over where their mother has left off? Or set up a new account? Or will they both maintain the profile together?

Oh the dilemmas this modern technological age raises for parents.

Where do you block status updates? Have a Chinese friend who just posts millions if pics of abandoned cats + incomprehensible to me Chinese text...

Hover next to their status update and a cross will appear. Click on it and the option to block the updates is there.

SOH, I have loads of friends/family living around the world, too. Its a great tool for keeping in touch!

Very weird. Even more weird are those that set them up for their UNBORN baby...

Facebook, meh.

OP - YANBU.

I laughed out loud at emptyshell saying that about her cat sleeping sleeping and sleeping. My cat has a pic on my MN profile, which is about as famous as she gets.

showofhands I agree it is good for keeping up with people faraway, but some people take the mick. I know people who comment on the FBs of people in the same house, and who put up updates of every move they make.

As I said before, meh.

I find it weird too. Worse my friend has one for her cat! Bonkers. She does insane updates.

Thts really sad, too much time on ones hands.

Yip, I agree with you all - definitely seems like such people have way too much time on their hands. I have trouble enough keeping up with my own personal correspondence let alone managing my baby's pseudo-cyberlife.

What worries me is what this indicates for their future parents. Seems to be the beginning of hyper-involvement and the inability to distinguish between their own lives and that of their children.

I have to confess to posting babies photos on my own facebook account (for the benefit of those faraway relatives). I swore I wouldn't but the family is quite persistent with its requests. And I did post a status update when she took her first steps - was so proud :D