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[Dr. Zoidberg]

I get annoyed when people have their kids as their profile picture. You are not your kid.

LOL. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one annoyed by this. What's especially interesting is when someone posts a ton of pictures of their kid, but there is not a single picture of themselves among them. None on their whole profile. They obviously value their privacy, but not the kid's. Maybe they have poor self-esteem or something and made the choice not to put themselves out there. The child doesn't get that choice. Hope there are no pictures they can be teased with when they get older.

As for the kids picture floods and stuff, I just unfollow/unfriend anyone who does that stuff. It's not hard. I also immediately unfollow/unfriend anyone that sends me one of those Facebook game requests. You get one pass, but if I get another a day later, you are gone.

Personally, I think Christmas cards that are nothing but a picture of your kids are very tacky and worse than putting them on FB. "Merry Christmas, person we barely know! Here's our kids!". Into the trash they go.

 

[Dan]

It's not the content, it's the amount.

Mostly this. If it involves something special or unique, by all means, but when you get photos/posts that are basically "look, my child is survived another day!", that gets excessive real fast.

Also, unless you've very meticulously curated your Facebook settings or friends list, you're going to be inundated with photos. Just because someone is a 'friend' doesn't mean you care about their detailed family life.

Facebook's own algorithms are pretty terrible at figuring out what you care to see.

 

[Shadybiz]

It's not the content, it's the amount.

Bingo Bango. For me, anyway.

 

[jb1234]

My former best friend (who got married and subsequently decided that keeping in touch with his friends of several decades wasn't worth the time, but that's a whole other discussion)

Boy, is he going to be in a world of hurt if they end up divorcing. I hate it when people pull that shit, get sucked up by their spouses.

 

[entremet]

It's for the grandparents.

 

[diffusionx]

I think it's an invasion of the kid's privacy. Yes even a barely sentient baby should have some privacy. Of course, part of the deal of having a person raise you and keep you alive means they get to embarrass and annoy you, so a little bit is okay. But when every moment of a kid's life is posted online before they even know what it is or what it means, I think it's just fundamentally wrong.