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To really hate Facebook names with mummy in the middle?

129 replies

TiarasTimeOutsAndTantrums · 11/10/2011 08:41

E.g liz 'proud mummy' smith etc. It just looks pathetic. And don't even get me started on people who give their newborn babies Facebook pages. Or is that just me that gets wound up by this?

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BelinaTheZombieChicken · 11/10/2011 14:49

My dead cat has a Facebook page Blush But that is so my mum can check out family photos as she can't have a profile due to her work

He was alive when I set up the profile. Otherwise it would have been stupid Hmm

DogsBeastFiend · 11/10/2011 15:29

Speak of the devil... I've just come across a friend of a friend on FB who gives her name as "Firstname Preggers Surname".

Oh god she must be an interesting little soul to know. Hmm

freakfire · 08/04/2014 10:48

Ugh. I hate it too. Great that you're a mum and all, but you're not defined just by the fact you've had kids!! And it's just not part of your name!!!

Sallyingforth · 08/04/2014 11:13

D'oh!
Not just more FB crap but Zombie FB crap!

Perfectlypurple · 08/04/2014 11:45

This is why I deactivated my FB. Too much crap on there.

Perfectlypurple · 08/04/2014 11:46

I hate zombie threads even more.Why do people do it???????

Monty27 · 08/04/2014 11:49

YADNBU!!!

And its not the only place you see it either Wink Wink

JeDeLo · 08/04/2014 12:00

I agree, this is nauseating behaviour. But then I don't even like it when people use the word 'bestie' and 'hubby' - urgh.

MammaTJ · 08/04/2014 12:38

Almost afraid to post on this thread well I would be if I have a toss what strangers on the internet thought because I have Mamma as my internet name.

It really doesn't bother me. I know some who do it and kind of get that that is the only thing at that point in time that they can define themselves by. That will change as time goes on.

NurseyWursey · 08/04/2014 12:44

It annoys me.

'Emma YUMMYMUMMY Webber'

'Lisa RaVeRDaNcEr Jones'

Jesus christ.

They either work at 'Playboy' or 'Full Time Mummmy'

JennySense · 08/04/2014 12:48

If you aren't using a "real name" you can be reported to Facebook justsayin ;)

Aeroflotgirl · 08/04/2014 12:49

Yanbu at all, I have seen a few on Facebook.

badtime · 08/04/2014 12:55

I have a friend who made a facebook profile for her baby, essentially to keep her own profile unclogged with baby pictures etc. Her own profile is still as intelligent and adult as it ever was (she works in the media and needs to keep it stylish), but people can opt-in to see all the family/baby stuff.

That is not bad - I would do the same myself.

DomesticSlobbess · 08/04/2014 12:59

YANBU.

Don't have anyone on mine who has it but I have seen a Catherine Mummytobe Smith on a friend's page. It's nauseating.

Someone else I know made a FB page for their baby and would talk to her other friend's baby on there eg "Loved playing with you today, Milly! Can't wait to come again and play dollies"

I also really dislike "Full-time mummy" as an occupation, which suggests those who work are part-time mummies. I'm still a mum when at work! My son doesn't cease to exist during my working hours!

FutTheShuckUp · 08/04/2014 13:27

Facebook things I hate
Jane new/proud/happy mummy/nanny/granny smith type names
Grown women who feel the need to add 'princess' to their name
Blokes who put avfc/bcfc/sotv/sotc in their names
People who put 'university of life' in their education section
People who put employer Ben/Sebastian/Isla- position - chief exec of smith family
This list is not exhaustive. Hence me having to delete FB for good

HappyMummyOfOne · 08/04/2014 13:52

Facebook is meant to be real life so stupid made up names are simply daft and show the person in their true light. Have seen them as friends of friends but thankfully that's it.

The joint accounts are just as bad and scream look at me I'm not single nor can I do anything without my partner.

The baby statuses I do hide though as well as declarations of love. Quite why they can't actually tell their partner in the same room rather than over the internet is beyond me. Baby ones are ok now and again but nobody cares that the baby has eaten, picked or needed a nappy change. It just makes the person a baby bore.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 08/04/2014 13:55

Um, why has a three year old thread been dragged up?

sooperdooper · 08/04/2014 13:59

YANBU, this makes me deeply cringe inside, luckily nobody I'm actually friends with on FB has this, but I'm on a group where a few have given themselves 'yummymummy' or whatever as their middle name Hmm

It's just really twee and dull, and I can't help but think they must be a bit daft

Viviennemary · 08/04/2014 14:03

Does anybody really care. Let them get on with it if they're proud to be a 'Mummy'. Can't see the harm.

RedFocus · 08/04/2014 14:20

YANBU but I hate crapbook and all the crap it stands for!

LizardBreath · 08/04/2014 14:22

I have an ex colleague who i would class as intelligent / sane. He and his wife have created a profile for their daughter, full of baby talk and 'cute' spelling mistakes- it's AWFUL! I declined the friend request from her (never even met the child!). I still have colleague showing as 50% of the time he posts interesting links. Unfortunately the other 50% is the child checking them in places (mi potty anyone?!) with the baby talk, bleurgh!

RedFocus · 08/04/2014 14:23

Obviously the Easter hol's are already dragging for some of us Wink

sooperdooper · 08/04/2014 15:25

YANBU but I hate crapbook and all the crap it stands for!

FB is only as crap or as good as the people who you have in your friends list, so anyone who hates it must hate the people who they know, or just accept any old weirdo as a friend on there just to bump up their friend numbers

Cariad007 · 08/04/2014 15:32

I had a friend whose mum died in 2007 and they've kept her profile going - they write on her wall on what would've been her birthday, they ask her to pray for them etc etc.

Normalisavariantofcrazy · 08/04/2014 15:33

Yanbu I've also come across people who put their disability in their name, it's like it's their only identifiable feature so

Joe wheelchair user bloggs
Or
Jane hardofhearing doe

Why do that?

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