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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Annoying FB posts
I'm at that age when it seems all of my friends are having babies, so I can understand seeing all of my friends posting new baby pictures constantly. But what is it with people posting videos of their babies for EVERY SINGLE thing they do?! I just don't get it.
Re: Annoying FB posts
I hate to say it because I adore children and would probably have a ball spending time with all my FB friends/acquaintances' babies ... but, I honestly don't get what compels them to go online and share a detailed portfolio of the odd lunch being burped all over the kitchen. Of all the moments in a baby's life that one would want to showcase... I don't know, maybe I'm just clueless and will have to wait for my turn to understand
On a side note, there's a lot that annoys me about FB so whatever.
I agree. I've a baby and I can honestly say that I have not posted a single picture of her on FB since she was born a year ago... and neither has dh... we decided that we weren't going to have her on there as it should be her choice when she is old enough. There are I think 4 photos that one of her aunts put up shortly after she was born - we didn't ask her to take them down but asked for no more photos to be put up, which has been respected.
BTW, I am on FB but not under my own name, so people can't randomly find me...
This exactly. Luckily, my family had the decency to set up a private group (one for immediate and one for extended). So now I can safely post pictures of our new apartment for my family to see and other private and/or embarrassing things can be shared freely.
I have family spread over several countries (and the grandparents don't live near us, either), but they're all on facebook. Posting pics of DD there is easier than emailing people. I figure whoever doesn't care can block me from their feed.
That said, I don't post every single moment.
You can set your photo albums to only be viewed by friends.
This. Honestly, I forget that I am even friends with a bunch of people (and I don't have a huge number of friends either) and let's be serious now, if I have to see other people tell me every.single.thing they ate that day (my cousin), or how freaking "amaaazing" someone's boyfriend is or whatever I have the right to share what my kid is up to.
I try not to do it too often and haven't put up a new photo in a while actually, but I like to see the stuff my sister puts up about her kids and I know she shares the sentiment. It's not like we're out sharing poop stories, but yeah kids do a lot of funny things and family like to see. Perhaps we should get a family only sharing site or something...
I guess I get annoyed by a lot of other things than people putting up pictures of their kid. And if it bothers you just block them from your feed. That's what I've had to do with my friend with the amazing boyfriend she can't stop talking about.
I guess my frustration was due to one particular friend who is in the habit of posting one or more videos per day of random things her newborn does. I can understand the excitement of seeing your new baby learn new things, but after seeing one too many videos of "oooh look she's waking up" or "look she's cooing" it made me want to block that friend (and when I was going to do so, I found 3 other friends had posted similar videos, thus the reason for this post).
Like I said, posting pictures is completely understandable. It is also my preferred way to share my pictures with family and friends. I was just referring to the new video trend. Creating a private group is a good idea. To be honest, I didn't know you could do that. I'll try to do that with my family.
You don't have to watch the videos. Or you can hide the friend from your feed. I really don't see the problem.
And yeah, I post videos of DS where not much happens. Some of my family and friends absolutely love them. I figure people who aren't interested wont watch.