"I don't, for instance, find posts that mock parents for complaining about how tired they are or how little time they have terribly entertaining."

I do. If you took the time to put your child in a safe place (I assume) and log on just to complain about having no time...then you're a self-centered idiot who simply enjoys whining for attention. You do, in fact, have plenty of time. You've simply chosen to waste it twittering, texting, e-mailing, blogging and IMing everyone about how little time you think you have. STFU, indeed.

I'm a proud parent, but I would never post gross photos of my kids' toilet training on facebook. I love STFU parents - it's light-hearted and funny. The parents who don't like it are the same ones who post disgusting photos of their kids or post coments in baby talk. So to those parents I say "Yeah! STFU!"

well everyone has an ax to grind. i think that parents should draw a line at bodily fluid and poop photos fer sure. i mean, consider your child's dignity down the road. before i had children, bodily stuff grossed me out totally.

most parents get over the grossness of their child's emissions pretty quickly and learn to have a sense of humor. my infant once spit up right into my mother-in-law's mouth. it was hilarious, to me at least. a grandmother SHOULD have the wisdom not to insist on doing balance gymnastics with a baby so shortly after its been fed, right? lol. served her right.

The attitude shown by the mothers on this blog is downright scary. It's natural enough for parents to share childrearing tips and generally blow off steam when they meet for coffee, but what about the children involved? Don't they have a right to privacy and basic dignity? Do these mothers have no sense of decency whatsoever? It seems to me that prattling your child's intimate details to the world is a form of child abuse. It's the same sinking feeling I get when I read Anne Lamont's account of her mothering experience: By all means, go ahead and tell us YOUR OWN experience, but please LEAVE YOUR SON OUT OF IT. Some things are best left in the family.

Full disclosure: my wife and I had twins some years back. The going was pretty tough at first, but I figured out the routine fast enough and was delighted when they learned how to attend to their own bodily functions. I never saw anything in any way funny or indecent about it because I figured it was just a phase all humans go through and it was finally my turn to roll up my sleeves. It's a fact of life and a totally unremarkable one at that. I cannot remember ever making an issue out of it. Perhaps my decorum was due to the fact that Facebook hadn't been invented yet, but I suspect it's more a matter of basic respect for the defenseless.

I used to post incessantly about artisan bread on FB. Now I post about my kids throwing up. (I have had a kid throw up in my mouth. . . trust me, you either laugh or cry at that moment.) When my kids get older, I'm sure I'll post about Darfur, or a book I just read, or my trip to China.

My point is that the people on my FB account are supposed to be friends. If they don't want to read about my kid puking, then they can unfriend me. I don't unfriend them when they post a billion things about wine, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Drum and Bugle Corp videos, but if what they post offended me, I probably would.

What I do know is that I'm 40, have two kids and a full time job. I get that the people at work may not want to hear about my kid's bodily functions, and it is not appropriate to talk about it incessantly there. FB is an outlet for me to talk to my buddies. . . usually at night. Forty years ago when I puked on the dog, my mother talked to her buddies in the coffee klatch. My Coffee Klatch is virtual, and it includes my friends from high school, college, and grad school. If they don't want to read about what is important in my life right now, they don't have to.

Before I had kids, I would have thought that STFU, Parents was really funny. There was a time that I thought Howard Stern and beer bongs were funny, too. I find none of these things even vaguely interesting right now. I think that it is ok to develop new interests, but I'm not condemning anyone else's idea of humor.

People do over share. We seem to be in an era of over-sharing. I have a 9 year old and I don't say much about her online. I don't think I've ever used her name in a public forum.

That said, I find it worse to create a site just for the purpose of mocking people. It's mean. At least the people who are over-sharing aren't being spiteful. Why do we think it's okay to have humor with a victim? If this is what you do with your life, yours is a sad life.

There are sites, such as the one that posts funny family photos that are humorous without being mean. In this case, the photos are submitted by someone in them who is laughing at herself and sharing that laugh.

I wish mockery weren't socially acceptable. It's not a civil activity and it's small-minded. Alas....

i'm a parent and i do post photos and updates about my kids on facebook, but i try to do so in a way that wouldn't annoy me if i weren't me. i think there wouldn't be much fodder for STFU there. (at least...i didn't see any of my stuff on there. whew.)

i absolutely understand the need for some people to be told to STFU. that said, i read several pages of the blog and while there were instances of sharp wit, most of it seemed like just being mean to easy targets. not very satisfying.

if people really want to discuss or display the diaper happenings in their home...great. they're entitled to share that as much as they want. i don't need to be in their network...and i probably won't bookmark STFU either.