To think no one actually cares about pictures of my children on FB?

[Stripedmum]

Be honest. Unless it's family do you really want to see thousands of pictures of other people's children if any?

I inundated the web with pictures of our first baby. Now I've had the second one I've decided not to...

Call me evil but I find pictures of other people's children boring and therefore don't want to annoy others with thousands of pictures of mine. I also think it's a bit insensitive to those who can't have kids: "Look at my beautiful children!". If you want to celebrate them why not print the pictures off and send them to loved ones/text them to people who are genuinely interested?

I think posting a few pictures is fine. Posting hundreds of blurry/red eye/wonky pictures which are all very similar is tedious. I think the same principle applies to your summer holiday/the work Christmas party etc.

I like seeing pics of my friends kids. Football updates, not so much.

I have a niece at the other end of the country, who I rarely see.
I love seeing the updates of her two little boys growing up.

I love seeing pictures of other peoples children!

I don't post a lot of pics for the same reason, I don't look at others so why would they want to look at mine? Only the occasional one because DSD has been particularly adorable in it. The news feed gets incredibly tedious when people post hundreds of photos, including the blurry ones!

Until recently a cousin of mine kept filling my newsfeed with statuses about every intimate detail of her pregnancy, and DOZENS of photos of the baby bump (seriously I counted 7 in one day!).. I understand she's excited but good grief! Thank goodness FB has a 'hide' option where you can tell it not to show you posts from certain people!

YABU
I like seeing my friends pictures of their children on Facebook.

I have friends all over the world and enjoy sharing snapshots of their lives with or without children.

I enjoy sharing pictures with relatives, who otherwise I'd not have anything to do with.

Yabu. If you have family that live far away they love the constant updates. DH's family live in SA and absolutely loved it when I was on FB constantly posting away . Not been on there for nearly two yrs though, now I send them direct.

I had no issue either with friends posting lots of pictures. Even Peaches Geldof who I happen to follow on Twitter does it and I find it interesting. Maybe i'm just weird to find other people's children adorable and not mind proud parents showing them off, -shrug-.

I love seeing pics of friends and families children.

Why are people on Facebook if they have no interest in their "friends" lives? It's not obligatory. It's a nice way to stay in touch and up to date. If you don't care unfriend or simply don't use facebook.

I agree - enjoy seeing photos of my nephews and nieces but some random bod from work's pfb - yawn!

Yanbu, and good for you for realising that it can be annoying for some people! I have a friend who posts pictures of her child every day and in the end, I just stopped her posts coming up on my feed. A few pics once in a while, I can completely understand though.

I love it and I love posting mine. And if anyone doesn't there's always the hide/defriend option.

This is very similar to the holiday pics on facebook thread and is going to lead to the same conclusion: if you have actual friends and family on fb, they will be interested, if you have 400 virtual strangers, they won't. Every issue with fb boils down to how you choose your friends on there.

I love looking at photo's of friends and families and the children - particularly those I don't get to see in the flesh.

YABU. I like seeing photos of my friend's kids. I'm not so interested in the baby photos (all look the same to me!), but it's hardly a hardship to skim my eyes over them in my news feed whilst looking for more interesting stuff.

Anyone who is annoyed by seeing photos of their friend's kids on Facebook probably shouldn't be on Facebook imo!

It's not a legal requirement to view them! Either unfriendly them or simply scroll past their post.

We have friends who love seeing how our children are growing, and have fantastic comments.

I do question why you have "some random bod from work" on your friend list if you are not interested in them!

One of my (distant) cousins uploaded a video of her DS- a montage of his first year for his birthday last week! Haven't watched but I'm thinking of it just to see if there's a cheesy backing track

Why would anyone think that other people care about seeing this stuff?

I post photos of my PLB (precious last-born!) every few days, just one or two rather than a whole album. I know there are family members and friends who enjoy seeing him as a lot of them have not met him yet. If anyone doesn't want to see, they can either keep on scrolling or click unfollow.

YANBU, and I don't post many photos of DD on FB for the same reason. A few on her birthday, Xmas, holiday maybe. The occasional random cute one here and there. But it's certainly not on a daily basis - not even on a monthly basis.

I don't know whether people who constantly post pictures of their DCs realise but I think it turns people off looking altogether. When somebody who rarely posts a photo does, I'm far more likely to look.

I'm confused, do you tend to post hundreds of individual pictures, or just stick on an album and pop a whole pile of photos in there at once? I tend to do the latter, if anyone wants to open it and have a look at the photos I've added, they can click on it and have a look, but otherwise, the album tht contains 5 photos to one that contains 50 makes no difference to people who don't want to click on it.

I also don't have millions of non-friends on facebook, this might colour my opinion, because the only people who post pictures of their DCs on there are people who I like and know and want to see photos of their DC.

The odd one's quite nice, but I personally find constant pics or status updates about children irritating. There is an option to see less of a person on your wall though, so you don't have to de friend if you don't want.

TBH constant updates about anything have ty same affect on me - for example if someone makes a comment about it being wine o clock every Friday.

Just wanted to add I don't mind all the baby pics (though thousands can be a bit much). I don't have to look at all of them but it's nice to see them grow- but a video montage?!

Plus he is clearly the most handsome baby that has ever crawled the earth, of course.

I love seeing pictures and videos of my friends babies. I also like sharing some of my DS

It's easy to avoid other people's pictures, no? So only the interested need look?