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AIBU?

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pregnancy test photos on FB

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twilight3 · 23/05/2012 16:25

well, I most ABU and ready to accept it but couldn't help posting here in hope that I might find some people who share my view on the subject.
I find them utterly disgusting, I actually feel the smell of wee inside my nostrils when I look at them. Why, oh why do you have to announce a pg with a photo of the particular test you peed on? There must be a cuter way...

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scrablet · 23/05/2012 17:49

Did know someone once who brought her wee stck into my work to show us all. I happened to be exactly the same pg at exactly the same time. I did not bring my wee stick in... Gawd knows what she would have posted if FB had been around then.

Teaandcakeplease · 23/05/2012 17:51

I understand.

None of my friends have done that (yet)

Yummymummyyobe1 · 23/05/2012 18:01

Goodness!!! there is a time and place to announce these things and a correct way to do it and I would think that FB is non of these.

I also find that people post these sort of the pictures also share every detail of their usually extremely tedious lives and every last scan pictures.

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twilight3 · 23/05/2012 18:06

I do not mind bladders, they do their jobs my keeping piss in. Also a scan is like the first picture of your baby, while a pg test is NOT.

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twilight3 · 23/05/2012 18:08

scrablet you're kidding!!!!!!!!!!! WHY? Why-why-why-why? Can't you just verbally say it if you're happy to share so early on? I'll believe, I don't need the proof...

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Moominsarescary · 23/05/2012 18:10

There was a thread the other week where the op said putting a scan picture on is like showing a picture of your fange

StateofConfusion · 23/05/2012 18:11

I understand.

Last night I had one appear on mine. I found it very odd and pressed hide.

Buckingfiatch · 23/05/2012 18:21

FFS, it is only a piece of plastic and any tests I have done, covers the end pissed on bit anyway so no pee visible.

YABU. Most pictures are mainly just of the line. They put them up on their wall, and have every right to. Some may just decide to put it up, plain and simply because they want to. Others may of been trying to get pregnant for months/years and are completely over the moon and want to show off that positive line. It is hardly going to hurt you, is it?

Don't like it, hide it. Simples.

TeaJunky · 23/05/2012 18:22

Jesus there are some pretty uptight people on here arnt they

I really do not get the fuss! If you don't like doing it, well you don't do it then and let those who do want to !

anniemcphee · 23/05/2012 19:31

I understand. Having come from a virtual land we get deleted for mentioning bounty , I have seen more than enough pee sticks.
I just don't see the point in posting a pic of it, nor did I keep any of the pee sticks I did with my 2.
I also didn't tell anyone on FB I was pregnant till I was 36 weeks - it was obvious in my profile pic that I was bigger.
I don't get this tell everyone everything business.

picnicbasketcase · 23/05/2012 19:33

Agree with Zonked - If it's that early, I wouldn't want to tell everyone just yet. It's never occurred to me to think 'Urgh, that's got pee on it' though.

CaptainHetty · 23/05/2012 19:38

I don't mind it so much, although after using bounty for a while I saw enough profile pictures of positive pregnancy tests to last me a lifetime. Was in a FB group with them for a while as well and they all seemed a tad obsessed, some of them were posting several different tests a day, discussing which ones had darker lines and if it meant anything

Buckingfiatch · 23/05/2012 19:57

That's you though annie. Not everyone feels or thinks the same way. Everyone is different. Doesn't mean you or them are right or wrong. Just makes you different.

But just because you (general you) don't like it, don't expect everyone to feel the same. You can easily hide the posts.

tyaca · 23/05/2012 19:58

i understand. facebook oversharing. >

anniemcphee · 23/05/2012 20:11

Buckingfiatch - I totally understand that others don't feel the same as me. Boy would the world be a boring place if they did!
What I said was I don't see the point of it, IMO there are nicer ways of saying "I am pregnant" than a piece of plastic with a few lines on it. - A nice picture of a "baby on board" sign, first scan etc.
I showed DH the pee stick and it was our moment together, I just didn't want to share it with the world. TBF there is very little I share with the world, only my very bestest friends know everything. Others do, and thats there perogative, I don't block or ban them - I just congratulate and stop looking at the pic.
But thats just Me.

SodoffBaldrick · 23/05/2012 20:20

Heh, I'm going to stick my neck out and say YANBU.

Yes, people are entitled to put photos of their wee-drenched sticks on FB. And I am entitled to think it is very, very tacky.

I can't recall a single one of my FB friends doing it, though. They're obviously above such carry on.

Buckingfiatch · 23/05/2012 20:55

annie, I know that. I was just pointing out (in general, really) that that maybe how you feel/think, but not everyone does so because it is odd/strange/whatever to you, it can be seen as completely normal/lovely/whatever to another.

But, as you have already stated, you know this anyway. Sadly though, some don't and do go way OTT with strong views which I find saddening. Also, when people automatically think "Eeewww, piss on a stick" first rather than "Awww, a positive line. A baby is on its way. Congratulations" type reaction, I find rather sad. Whatever happened to just being happy for someone rather than judging straightfrom the off? Ok, I would expect it if one has a phobia of wee, but hey ho, that's just me.

G1nger · 23/05/2012 21:14

If I knew how to upload pictures here I would :)

(I sent my sister - only - a picture of mine. For me, it was the perfect image. I'm sure she agreed!)

AutumnSummers · 23/05/2012 22:03

It wouldn't even register on my list of things to be annoyed about. YABU

AutumnSummers · 23/05/2012 22:04

Also, the fact that you think "Ewww, pee" over "Yay, baby." is a bit weird.

SodoffBaldrick · 23/05/2012 22:10

You would think 'yay baby' if they simply announced they were pregnant, or posted a picture of a scan or did any of the many other things that didn't involve gimmick-y pics of wee-covered sticks.

As I say, each to their own re ways of announcing it, but also each to their own as to ways of receiving it.

AutumnSummers · 23/05/2012 22:13

I'm not disputing someone's right to interperitation. Just saying that I find the interperitation weird.

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twilight3 · 24/05/2012 17:59

I think you have completely misunderstood. I am NOT judging, and I didn't say I'm annoyed (only if MNers learned to read) I simply find it weird. Of course I think "yay, baby" and I'm pleased for them... I just cannot understand WHY do I need to see the proof. As I said before, the scan is a photo of the baby, I think it's sweet. So are announcements.
Where I come from as a general rule women have a blood test when they suspect pg, it's quick, more reliable and free. It would though be weird to announce "my blood test results showed this many whatjamaflipees in my blood" or even post a photo of their results, no? That's exactly how I feel about seeing the stick. Pointless and yes, I can smell it, but then I should have probably mentioned in the beginning that I'm synesthetic.

I don't like though being JUDGED as JUDGEY by people who try to come off as nice and sweet with constantly beautiful thoughts for everyone... And in that they fail to see what they're actually saying

Couldn't have said it better Sodoff "each to their own re ways of announcing it, but also each to their own as to ways of receiving it"

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loveisagirlnameddaisy · 24/05/2012 18:03

I posted a picture of me actually weeing on the stick. Was that wrong as well?

Buckingfiatch · 24/05/2012 18:16

If your post was directed in my direction, I would like to invite you to point out where I "judged you for being judgy". Even on my post, I even put in brackets "general you", meaning it isn't aimed at you, but to those who are guilty of the extreme.

I also don't take too kindly to being told I need to learn to read.

Just saying, just in case it was aimed in my direction.

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