Why do people hate kid's pictures on social media?

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I know people are going to say, "It can get annoying" but I am curious if anyone can articulate why.

What else do people post on social media? Pictures of themselves eating or drinking? Dumb political memes? Links to articles people "like" but don't read? Youtube videos? None of that seems any better.

What is it about kids that bugs people? Personally, I use FB to stay connected to my friends. If they had a kid, I would assume that is part of that. Is the problem just that people are FB friends with people who aren't actually their friends?

It makes me think that these people just wish they were using Twitter, but are too lazy. FB is mostly for older people now right?
 
Because its super excessive 90% of the time. Like no one minds if you post a pic of your kid on their bday. But constant floods of baby pictures all the time is overwhelming. But fb has an unfollow feature so its not really an issue. If what you post is annoying I just unfollow. Problem solved.

This goes for like anything. A million pics of your cat isnt interesting. A milliin pics of your food is not interesting.
 
Bio-Frost said:
I dont want to look at other peoples kids. Simple as that really.
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Then you aren't their friend right? If so... That's actually a pretty complicated relationship to have with someone. You are their friend but you literally are annoyed if you see an images of their child while you scroll past cat videos and political memes?
 
The issue is that most people go overboard. A picture here and there is fine, but when it becomes a daily or several time a day thing, I get annoyed. But I feel the same about people who post all day anyway. I don't need an hourly update about your life.

I know a few new parents are aware of how annoying they are being because they add, "I know you are probably sick of seeing these pic, bu..." with the daily update of the kid picture. At a certain point it becomes spam, IMO. If the kid is finally walking, or hitting some milestone, yeah, but daily updates are a bit much. I feel the same about people who post pics of their pet daily, car, lunch, etc.
 
People don't like seeing what they don't want too, and forget that you can hide those pictures from your feed but no one ever goes that far. They rather complain about it first then scroll down that page lol.

It's like how the cute sub reddit is spammed with pictures of animals but when someone posts a picture of a baby it ends up on the controversial page... It's really dumb
 
I don't mind that at all. But it does annoy me when adults use their children as their profile picture. How am I supposed to ogle girls I knew from high school when their picture is a little boglin with crap all over its face?
 
It doesn't bother me, but then nothing really bothers me that much so It's probably actually a problem.
 
They don't genuinely care about the parents, they just want to alleviate the boredom of wasting the last hour of the working day. That's how you get people who complain about photos of kids not being interesting. They don't care about you, do they don't think your kids are interesting.
 
It's just tacky, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that personal child photos are being sent out to hundreds of people who are mostly actually strangers and not friends. Out of someone's 500 friends, there probably isn't more than a couple dozen that actually want to see that stuff. There should be a way to limit photo posts to only close friends/family...
 
Staccat0 said:
Then you aren't their friend right? If so... That's actually a pretty complicated relationship to have with someone. You are their friend but you literally are annoyed if you see an images of their child while you scroll past cat videos and political memes?
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No im not. Its mostly extended family that add's me who ove only talked to once or twice or my fiancees friends who all post 10+ pictures a day. So for them I ignore their feed
 
It's not just kids, it's too much of anything.

"Empowering quotes", 10 pictures of you drinking, 5 angles of your meal.... some people have no control. Let's not even talk about Facebook, 90% of everything there is stuff I skip over because it's all crap.
 
People have this insane way of thinking that their kid is the most special, most precious thing in the world to everyone who's ever existed.

That, and I'm tired of seeing people post raunchy or sexy pics, fight videos, pics of them drunk, etc, then their next pic would be a pic of their kid. Pick and choose one lane.
 
Kids that aren't yours are uninteresting. There's nothing to talk about. They're your kids. Cool. So now what? What is there to say?

On the other hand, memes, politics, random blurbs, photos of food are something that would start a discussion. They can be entertaining.
Photos of your kids? Not so much.

Make your kids do weird or funny shit. Make it interesting, not just photos of them standing there smiling.
Boring.
Kids might actually be interesting, but no one would know it from the photos people tend to post of them.
 
border said:
It's just tacky, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that personal child photos are being sent out to hundreds of people who are mostly actually strangers and not friends. Out of someone's 500 friends, there probably isn't more than a couple dozen that actually want to see that stuff. There should be a way to limit photo posts to only close friends/family...
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There is. Secondly, 500 friends?
 
*pictures of kids

Like the first reply said, it's the amount. And they don't start discussions.

Strangelove77 said:
Kids that aren't yours are uninteresting. There's nothing to talk about. They're your kids. Cool. So now what? What is there to say?

On the other hand, memes, politics, random blurbs, photos of food are something that would start a discussion. They can be entertaining.
Photos of your kids? Not so much.

Make your kids do weird or funny shit. Make it interesting, not just photos of them standing there smiling.
Boring.
Your kids might actually be interesting, but no one would know it from the photos people tend to post of them.
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Well said.
 
A lot of time it comes off as showing off. The kid dosent have a say in it if they grow up to have a fued with jayz he's gonna use that tutu pic against them. Their slightly less annoying than people in a relationship post a pic of their SO and put stuff like 'one year ago I met the love of my life love you babe'.
 
Kid pictures are usually boring, featuring the kid performing some mundane task like eating a bowl of cereal or something stupid. If it's like a Halloween costume, then that's cool. But parents can never filter out pictures other people want to see with pictures other people don't care about, because to them every picture is precious.

And no, FB isn't all stupid shit. One of my friends is an artist and he'll post pics of new pieces he's doing. Another sings and will post YT videos of such. Another writes for a NY-based magazine and he'll post new articles he writes. If you think FB is all boring kid pictures, you might want to consider getting more interesting friends.
 
I want to see cool things people are doing so that my own jealousy rises and I then seek to one-up them. I have no need to see another poop-making beast crawling on the floor.
 
Slightly different answer, but my wife and I wanted kids for years before we were actually able to start having them. Seeing other people's children on Facebook was kind of like twisting the knife, saying, "Look at these images of other people enjoying a life you can't have." And it especially sucks because it was obviously people we liked, and we wanted to be happy for them, but it's hard to be happy for someone when you are also so, so envious.
 
yanipheonu said:
To be fair, people seem to like their kids. It'd be weirder if they weren't putting their pictures on Facebook.
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That's kind of my point. If someone is your friend and you followed them on FB. You implicilty give a shit about their lives. Instead people want other to post things from OUTSIDE their lives. It's weird.
 
Bio-Frost said:
Not that un common. I use mine alot for networking. I have about 300 and a good 250 of then being other game artists ive meet tho conventions and gamejams.
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I just checked, and I use mine for networking too and have 250. I guess I've unfollowed about 90% of them. Time to cut some fools loose.

Either way, you can pretty easily control who sees what on FB.
 
Staccat0 said:
That's kind of my point. If someone is your friend and you followed them on FB. You implicilty give a shit about their lives. Instead people want other to post things from OUTSIDE their lives. It's weird.
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You seem to have an angle here because you are ignoring everyone saying it is the amount, but keep hammering your idea that if you don't like a friend posting 10 pics a day of their kid, then you really aren't their friend. Not sure how you came up with that logic, but go ahead. That seems to be the message you want to get out there.
 
You guys remember back in the day when someone would pick up their Kodak photos, and bring them into work or something and show you a million pictures of their kids, wedding, etc? and you're like "alright already, shit"

Well just multiply that by like 20.
 
Staccat0 said:
Why though? Are there other things on FB that aren't annoying? The whole thing is people just posting dumb shit, right?
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It's just saturation of a single topic. Parents are predisposed to think every thing their kid does is the best most greatest and cutest thing in the world, and it is to them, but to anyone else it's mostly just mundane, ordinary shit featuring a kid. Like, no one needs to see 100 pictures of your kid rolling around on a blanket in the living room, with 90% of them underexposed and out of focus. That's what you invariably get though.

My friends just adopted their first baby, and they specifically set up an account with a site called Moment Garden to post all their baby stuff to so they didn't flood their Facebook accounts with it all.
 
I try to limit myself to just 3-5 kid pictures per year, and only when I catch her doing something interesting. Anything beyond that is excessive.

I was definitely that person when she was a baby though. I think almost everybody morphs into that person when they have their first baby, because having a baby is so completely involving and incredible, it becomes your entire life, and even the smallest moment seems worth sharing with people. Having a baby is an utterly life-changing experience so I try to give new parents some slack here.

I have a friend who became that person when he had a baby three months ago who I never thought it would happen to. He is a cynical and hilarious jerkwad but there he is, posting pictures of his spawn like every five days...not...doing...anything. Just lying there. Getting marginally larger every time. Just like every single other time one of my friends on Facebook has had a baby (there are exceptions, of course, but they are rare). I have probably seen dozens of pictures of that baby by now and I couldn't pick it out of a lineup. Other peoples' babies all look the same until they get to be a little older. They are super boring pictures. Always.

And then there's the parents who keep doing it, just constantly posting pictures of their children doing nothing interesting at all. I won't say it feels like boasting, because I try to think the best of these people and I don't believe that is their intent, but it is grating. I don't know most of these kids. I have no relationship with them. I've already seen their smiling adorable faces fifty fucking times. I don't need a weekly check-in with those smiling faces. They are boring pictures and they clog up my feed.
 
OP has some weird hang up on "Well isn't EVERYTHING on social media stupid!" (The whole thing is people just posting dumb shit, right?)

no.

I follow other photographers and artists and love seeing their stuff. I follow other people that post interesting articles or their own takes on issues that I think are interesting.

Photos of someone's kid was uninteresting before the internet and even more so now.
 
people getting annoyed by kids on social media is ridiculous. It's their personal page for sharing their personal life with the people of their choosing. This is how friends and family keep up with the kiddos. They can unfollow you, you have no reason to stop posting.

This isn't some entertainment website just shit posting. This is someone's personal photo album being updated.
 
I have an old coworker who has a habit of taking over my feed with photos of her 3 sons and how absolutely precious everything they do is. She's entitled to be proud of her kids, but Christ, all the other parents I'm friends with must be equally as proud of their kids but they aren't beating people over the head with it.
 
I quit facebook when I had a kid. I didn't post pics of my kid and I didn't allow family members to post pics of my kid. I share pics only with family. Directly. Why would I want anyone else to see them? Also, why would anyone else even want to see them?
 
dskillzhtown said:
You seem to have an angle here because you are ignoring everyone saying it is the amount, but keep hammering your idea that if you don't like a friend posting 10 pics a day of their kid, then you really aren't their friend. Not sure how you came up with that logic, but go ahead.
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Don't get angry, it's just a discussion. I guess I should clarify? The amount seems immaterial to me, because it's a digital feed and FB has changed how it works in the last 5 or so years.

Also, as I've mentioned, if someone posts 10 pictures of their kid, it's not exactly blotting anything out of meaning or consequence. Coupled with the unfollow feature it feels like there is more going on there.
Maybe I've just never been subjected to this spam flood? I wonder if there are screenshots out there?

On my feed you can literally just scroll though all the inane shit and pick your poison. I dunno. Maybe my friends are just dope.

creationtheory said:
I quit facebook when I had a kid. I didn't post pics of my kid and I didn't allow family members to post pics of my kid. I share pics only with family. Directly. Why would I want anyone else to see them? Also, why would anyone else even want to see them?
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I like my friends and their kids. I follow them on FB to see what they are up to on a sort of day to day basis. The small stuff. I think that's what it is for right?
 
Random pics get irritating, but I don't mind if it's something for a particular accomplishment that you are proud of.
 
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