To think my friend's Facebook profile photo is a wee bit...odd?

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Yes, I literally have NOTHING more important to be thinking about

My friend has two DDs, 11 and 8. She regularly posts photos of them and of the three of them out and about on FB, and it's lovely to see what they've been up to.

She has recently changed her profile photo to a pic of just her and her eldest daughter. Youngest not included. There were photos of younger DD taken in the same session (other photos posted to an album at the same time) so not as if she has suddenly turned camera shy.

I'm sure she has a perfectly logical reason that I can't think of but AIBU to think it's a bit odd, when you have two children and all your FB friends know you have two children, to only include one of them in your FB profile pic? Or is this not at all unusual?

Please answer, or I simply won't be able to sleep a wink tonight!

I have used a picture of just me a nd one dc Its just a pucture really maybe she thinks she looks fab in it or something, doesnt mean she hates a daughter,

Dd1 would hate a picture of her as my profile picture usually its my dog in various poses

DS has been known to insist I use a picture of me and him if we've been somewhere nice and there's a photo he particularly likes, where as DD couldn't care less so maybe it's something like that, I do tend to change my cover photo to one with DD in if my profile pic is of DS though

If you looked at my FB it looks like I have 2 DC's, I have 4. I'm pretty sure my teenager doesn't want her photos on my FB and my 11 year old tells me not to put his photo on.

So I just bore the life out of people with my baby and toddler

My friend puts her youngest dd up the most she is only early primary so doesn't care her eldest dd hates it

My current profile pic is of me and my eldest daughter.

We were all messing about dressing up, quite a few pics were taken. DD2 was either gurning/blinking/had her eyes rolled up in to the back of her head/looking the other way/whatever so she got cropped out. Nothing personal.

I do make sure I post equal amounts of pictures of them though

My profile pic is of me and my eldest daughter, my youngest daughter does not seem to have been mortally offended. It's just a photo. It sis but a small snippet of our lives

My profile picture is of me and DD. Luckily my 5yr old DS doesn't care! I just choose the pic I look best in ofcourse.

I do this all the time. One of my DD's is much better looking and photogenic.

I'm joking. I put whatever picture I like up. Sometimes one kid, sometimes two, sometimes just me.
After all, it's MY FB page.

Perhaps she doesn't want the picture of an 8 year old on her profile from a safeguarding point of view. If she has her settings to friends only then they can see pictures of the younger one on her wall, but anyone can see her profile picture.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this.

You're definitely overthinking it.
At present my profile picture has 2 of my dc in (out of 3) simply because that was a nice photo and they look nice in that. I swap my photo from time to time when I think I have a nice photo, and rarely is it one with all three in, sometimes one, sometimes two, and occasionally three. It's hard to get a good one with all three looking great.

Mine are more likely to shriek with horror at finding themselves in the profile picture than think they've missed out by not being.

I am guessing that she has photos on her walls, in her home, of just her & one dc, I know I do. Some of myself & dd1, others of myself & dd2.

Do you think that is odd?

I really don't understand this fascination with what other people put on their fb pages. Do you object to what others put up in their homes? It's all personal taste & done for them, not you!

This wins the award for the most disappointing thread of the week- tho Bunbaker also gets a prize for the most over-thought answer to the most over-thought OP

I do it all the time , I have 3 kids, my profile pic usually has various combos. I can honestly say I've never thought twice about it. If I'm in it, it completely depends on how I look in it, which one I choose. I don't photograph well, all the cameras fault, my pesky dds always take a good photo.

You would think that I only had one DS if you went through my profile pictures.

Ds1 has categorically said he doesn't want his picture on my page. ( funny he's ok with the 1000's of selfie s on his, the vain sod!)

I do this at times. If it's a nice pic of one DD then I choose that...if it's a nice one of the other then I swap! Don't be weird OP.

Seriously? Is this a serious post?

I was expecting something really odd ... And really it was a woman having a photo of herself and her daughter as her profile photo? That's headline news right there.

And your worried in case as old school friend thinks she only has one child? Surely if it was an old friend they would add her on Facebook and see numerous photos of both her daughters.

MN never fails to baffle me. People honestly judge you on every tiny aspect of your life on here.

The photo is not odd. This post however is.

I agree Logical!