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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
People share whatever they want on FB. Who cares? If you don't want to look at it, don't look! I don't see it as an attack, though, just unenlightenment. And I'm a parent of a 7 and 3 year old.
As a parent who doesn't have time to horse around with Facebook anyway, I've never run across posts like those shown. But I can see how they would be annoying. But, but, like the one poster said, if you don't like it, don't read it, or unfriend, or whatever. I guess the most interesting thing about the blog is it's name :-)
I know of many breeders that need to get over themselves and their precious offspring.
whether she's disgusting or you're trying to teach her Mandarin, Vegan lifestyle and gay rights from birth either.
You are all tedious assholes, all of you.
I vote more that it's about the childless who don't get how fun parenting is, how proud little milestones can make you, and how family members really DO want to hear about most of the things our kids do. I didn't give a shit before I had kids; now I totally understand it. This is more a matter of self-absorbed assholes who think the way they view the world is the only valid one.
Try lightening up, folks. Get out in the world. Turn off the PC. Take a walk.
I just heard about this site and visited it for the first time a few days ago. I had a few chuckles and moved on. My own kids are older--now 12, 16, and 19--and I couldn't help thinking that I'm glad Facebook wasn't around back then for me to embarrass myself on.
I cringe reading plenty on facebook -- it's not just parents who tell too much. I have a professional friend who regaled us all with details of her food poisening...ICK! Another friend has carried out fights with her ex husband. I thought only kids were foolish enough to do this.
I am a mom of 3 including an adorable baby. I will never understand the need to post about bodily functions or other embarrassing details. My friends and I have a joke about people who think they have the First Baby Ever and that the World is endlessly fascinated with every messy detail of said FBE's life. Yeah, they need to STFU.
are they uniquely tedious? That's what this blog and some posters above seem to imply.
It is indeed boring to hear constantly about someone's toddler's antics (and that's true whether they are updating over facebook or just monopolizing dinner party conversation). But it's also tedious to hear about someone's cats, or their commute, or their umpteenth break up with boy/girlfriend....if these experiences are related without a real effort to engage the listener. In other words, we all have the capacity to be dull and self-involved, whether we are parents or not!
"another unprovoked attack by the child-free on the child-rearing?" Are you serious? Attack? Hilarious. I think most parents have a thicker skin than you think. And those who feel "attacked" need to get over themselves and stop reading STFU Parents. I mean that's the same advice given by a couple letter writers in regards to people annoyed by parental oversharing, right? Bottom line, like the so-called mommy wars, pitting parents against childfree is really tedious.
Hey childfree dorks: no one cares about your cats and anime cons either.
who constantly talk about their children are BORING and INSECURE!
Without a kid, there might not be puke stories, but child or no child, a bore is a bore is a bore. A fellow named Mark Edmundson recently wrote a really excellent riff on the subject of bores titled "Enough Already". I highly recommend it.
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/enough-already/
is better.
http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com/
That's what Facebook is for. They've got options to hide people, and I'm a frequent user of those options.
Otherwise, the whole reason you're logging into Facebook at all hours of the day is to read about the offhand banalities of your circle of acquaintances. Cute babies? Drunken parties? Random song lyrics? Check, check, check. What else are you doing on Facebook? Is my baby update cutting into your Bejeweled Blitz time?
If you don't like it, just click on back to Salon.
Boring parents are just boring people who finally have something to say they think others might be interested in hearing. Thanks for setting them straight.
This article reminded me of a photo I received from a close relative with their new baby who had just defecated on them as they posed laughing. Everyone with kids in the room thought it was hilarious. There are indeed some things in life I'm content not understanding, especially if children are requisite.
The title of that Edmundson article from the previous poster nailed it. After a reading a third of it..."Enough Already." Hey Dr. Edmundson, if you find everyone around a bore, you're likely the problem. There are very few articles I've ever started and not at least skimmed to the end; congrats, you made the list.
Kid-infested parents are a goddamn single-topic disease worthless to thrash and drink with.
I will never consider the concept of total child immersion viable.
I have a one year old and have been embarrassed at other parents' readiness to share bodily function reports. Facebook encourages, nay demands, oversharing of all types, so I'm glad someone has found a way to derive humor from it.
I'm not sure which is worse. Parents who share too much detail about parenting, or a blog which shares stories about parents who share too much detail about parenting.
I mean, if I just read any given parent's musing, it's likely that many or most of the postings will be interesting, cute, or whatever (along with the gross or offensive ones). But if I read that blog, it's a guarantee that all of the parenting stories will be inappropriate.
In other words, let's say that I am offended by people who think they have been abducted by aliens. Why in the world would I then scour the internet and consolidate all alien abduction stories that I could get my hands on? Seems like ignoring it is the better option.
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