Facebook Moms Who Share Too Much

by Sandy Maple (Subscribe to Sandy Maple's posts) Mar 20th 2009 9:00AM

Categories: Newborns, Just For Moms, Babies

Do your Facebook status updates include the details of your child's poop? You might want to rethink that, and fast.

Facebook may have gotten its start as an exclusive club for college kids, but it has since evolved into a free-for-all for anyone over the age of 13. And with the fastest growing demographic on Facebook being those 30 years old and older, you can bet there are lots of moms out there setting up profiles and sharing the details of their lives on the popular networking site. But these moms aren't just connecting with other parents, they are staying in touch with their childless friends as well. And that is giving rise to a rather awkward situation.

In what can only be described as a diatribe against new mothers who use Facebook to chronicle the minutia of their child-centered lives, Mom Logic's Childless Bitch has issued a demand: Keep it to yourself! If your Facebook status update has ever included information regarding your baby's nap schedule, dietary habits or potty particulars, she's talking to you. And she's not alone in her quest to rid the Internet of such drivel. As proof that your childless friends are snickering behind your back after reading your ridiculous status updates, she points to a Web site that exists for the sole purpose of making fun of you.

Shut the F*&% Up Parents is a repository of cringe-worthy Facebook updates submitted by readers who have had it up to *here* with over-sharing parents. From the pregnant woman flashing side-boob in her profile photo to a mother infatuated with the smell of her newborn's head, it's all fodder for the snarky commentary. Childless Bitch shares this site as proof, but you may as well take it as a threat. Keep up the inane updates and you may find yourself featured here.

Clearly the "awesomeness of little Jaden's first poopy in the big boy potty" is not awesome at all to someone who isn't in the throes of potty training. But you know what? Neither is the fact that you are jetting off to another fabulous child-free vacation with your cute new boyfriend. In fact, a quick scroll down my own Facebook page this morning reveals that most of my friends are currently involved in activities that I couldn't care less about. Fortunately, none of them involve poop.

Predictably, Childless Bitch's post rankled Mom Logic's readers. The general consensus seems to be that if you don't like it, don't read it. But while I am a little taken aback by the obvious anger in Childless Bitch's rant, I do agree with her on one point -- bowel movements, whether performed by an experienced adult or a novice child, should never be discussed in public. It's just gross, okay?

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ttupper 3-20-2009 @ 10:23AM

hahahahaha! I am a mother of 4 and I use facebook. I do not talk about my kids poop and eating habits and what not. But I have friends on there who do! I just laugh, but at the same time feel sorry that thay have nothig better to talk about!
Hahahahaha!

windex 3-20-2009 @ 10:53AM

I have to agree that the hatred on the website seems a bit much. Why bother being friends with them if you are going to that too them. Though I agree that certain updates are boring but honestly this just seems a little much.

Amy 3-20-2009 @ 11:45AM

Wow, this chick is very cranky. Ok, I'm sure the mommy updates are irritating to non-parents but facebook is CHOCK FULL of irritating updates. Finding out that someone just ate a cookie or is looking forward to Friday is just as eye roll worthy. Seriously, don't use Facebook if you can't find the charm in ego-centric status updates.

Joy 3-20-2009 @ 11:54AM

I use FB mainly as a way to keep connected with extended family and old friends. I do have a lot of people I know in the present also. I feel it's nice to have that little connection as know what everyone is up to "today." If a diaper change is what they're doing, that's okay with me. I have the choice who I'm friends with and if I don't want to read what they have to say, I can delete them or choose not to read what they have to say.

Such anger towards a *friend* is...well, I don't know. Mean!

Sandyone 3-20-2009 @ 1:54PM

Thus, the nickname "childless bitch".

Just another post written to generate shock, horror, anger, etc.

childfreenews 3-21-2009 @ 9:51PM

At least they can turn Facebook off.

It's worse when you have cow-orkers who praddle on and on about their kids. Sure you get paid for it but the endless droning about the Gifted and Talented dancing uberkid makes for a LONG day.

http://twitter.com/childfreenews

bremarie03 3-20-2009 @ 9:06PM

I wonder why these people would spend so much time and energy (blog posts, creating entire websites, etc.) hating something that they claim to not care about. Their Facebooks must be radically different than mine, because the friends I have are people I actually like. If you hate them or their kids so much, why are you friends with them?

Kiel 3-25-2009 @ 10:37PM

I am a mom, but I think some of these parents are lacking in dignity to put up some of the photos they do, or discuss some of the things they do on public forums. Maybe I am just old fashioned, but some things should remain private.

Mary Jane 3-25-2009 @ 7:53AM

I don't understand why with my space and Yuwie and all the other pages out there classmates etc. why would older people want to communicate with face book let the kids have something to themselves that way you dont have to have worries about people making nasty comments or being offended by pictures etc...... Facebook should be for college students why must everyone have that.

I dont get it.........

Tilak Epari 4-24-2009 @ 6:10AM

Hmmm

erin 5-26-2009 @ 1:57AM

Facebook is your place to invite your friends and family in on your daily life. It is our freedom of speech and expression to say whatever we want, if others have an issue with it, that is their problem. I have 2 boys (7 and 9) and am going to be deliverying a baby in January and if I feel like revealing something such as the consistency of my childs poop then I will lol True friends will laugh it off or just not comment... this is a petty subject for people to complain about.