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Using paper announcements and photo albums to document a birth are so 2010. To spread the word of their pregnancy, Ellie and Matt Greene started a Facebook profile for their unborn baby, Marriah.
The Texas couple sent friend requests and the fetus had more than 100 friends in just one day. To date, her friends number 260.
The mom-to-be updates the page from the point of view of Marriah and people respond directly to her, especially when she tells friends she is kicking Mommy. "Oh, do somersaults this way," one friend suggests.
Marriah's parents have gotten creative, adding that Marriah attends Tummy University.
The page is not just for entertainment and laughs, however.
"We wanted to keep the page going, so she could go back and look at it," Ellie Greene tells KLTV, adding that she and her husband will continue to update the page to share her birth story.
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6-02-2011 @ 5:51PM
Liz said...I buy almost everything except food and clothing from online auctions. Most people aren't aware of the almost unbelievable deals that they can get from online auction sites. The site that has the biggest selection and the best deals is hTtp://bit.ly/BiggestDeals and I checked with the Better Business Bureau and was told that it is all legit. How they can sell gift cards, laptops, cameras, and all kinds of goodies that we all want for 50-90% off, I don't know. I do know that I bought my son an iPad there for less than $100 and my husband a $250 Loews gift cards for $48. Why would I even think about shopping anyplace else?
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6-02-2011 @ 6:03PM
Louise said...I'd like to explore why social networking in general has touched a collective nerve. Do sites like Facebook stand as viable communities, and are the people on your home page "real friends?" Many of you say no. It's the brick and mortar, sit-face-to-face-and-talk that counts. Some expressed feeling leery of all the myriad new drains on time and energy with texting, tweeting, facebooking and so on. They lament the discourtesy of people constantly texting while out to dinner, or using twitter to reply to Facebook to send you an email to ask a simple question. They fear we are losing ourselves.
Yet, this prism has many sides. Plenty out there believe these sites are solid and viable resources for maintaining connections, and the wave of the future. Some of you spoke of how you enjoy the broad networks you can manage easily, as well as nostalgic components of finding old friends and delighting in renewed connections. One of our readers said she joined Facebook, met old elementary school friends she had lost touch with, and was making plans for a reunion in New York City.
"But do you really consider these relative strangers to be your 'friends?"' I asked her.
"Yes," she replied, "because they have a piece of my history that almost none of my existing friends have. It is really feels almost like finding a long lost relative."
So, what gives? When something hits a nerve, clearly there are unresolved emotions, the boundaries of a comfort zone is being tapped, or we are being asked to make a paradigm shift
6-02-2011 @ 9:42PM
MeMan said...FREE YOURSELF! Delete your accounts and don't look back. BRAIN WASH>>>brain wash>>>BRAIN WASH>>>brain wash>>>BRAIN WASH>>>brain wash>>>BRAIN WASH>>>brain wash>>>BRAIN WASH>>>brain wash>>>BRAIN WASH>>>brain wash>>>BRAIN WASH
6-02-2011 @ 2:18PM
Lauren said...Seems kind of silly to create a facebook page for a baby. By the time she's a teenager, facebook will probably be obsolete just like Myspace came and went.
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6-02-2011 @ 3:40PM
RIDICULOUS said...This is the most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard! Come on people...there is an entire world that does not exist on the internet, myspace, facebook, twittwr or any of the rest of this temporary needless bull that is out there! Seriously...way to start out early with the really bad parenting and needless harmful exposure of your child to the internet!!! WAY TO GO!!!
6-02-2011 @ 3:08PM
briteyez44 said...so what happened to the rule that "children" under the age of 13 are blocked by facebook?
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6-02-2011 @ 3:08PM
Brittany said...And this makes CNN because....
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6-02-2011 @ 3:09PM
Steve said...News Flash: A "man" cannot get pregnant; ONLY a woman!
Hence, why the incorrect phrase: "their pregnancy" when in fact ONLY the woman has that status of pregnancy?
Wow, are people these days so publicity-starved that they do such stupid and time-wasting stunts as reported in this article?
Sheesh!
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6-02-2011 @ 3:13PM
John Malone said...Who really cares about these idiots and why is this news???
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6-02-2011 @ 4:40PM
stew said...well....i'm guessing YOU care and think its newsworthy...since you clicked, read and then commented on it.
6-02-2011 @ 7:18PM
diane said...Fetus means baby, infant in latin. For all you abortonists murderers.
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6-02-2011 @ 3:21PM
buffalo said...Whay pure stupidity......
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6-02-2011 @ 3:36PM
gboothom said...Wow. this just goes to show how horrible social media really is. This is disgusting. Our society is failing because of crap like this. Someone call social services
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6-02-2011 @ 9:38PM
Jamie said...Why call social services?? That is why we have so many problems with actual child abuse being overlooked. In your opinion it is not a good thing and so on and that's okay, but this is a unborn child, and I don't see any abuse as far as I am concerned. The only thing I see is abuse of the system!!!
6-02-2011 @ 3:39PM
cindy said...think this couple needs to get a life when it comes to getting a facebook account for their unborn child
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6-02-2011 @ 4:03PM
Sabrina said...Oddly enough, one of my moms friends did the same thing except for her cat LOL and she came up with a lot of funny stuff. to put in the info section. and the cat was friends with mighty mouse etc it was slightly disturbing but cute at the same time
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6-02-2011 @ 4:09PM
Bev said...It fascinates me that people think the whole world needs to know every move they make, every place they go etc. This makes no sense to me.
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6-02-2011 @ 4:46PM
Dave said...You're right Bev. This has to be one of the most singular examples of self-aggrandizing self-importance I have ever encountered.
These two are far beyond regrettable and forgettable. This is one apple I hope falls far, far from the tree.
6-02-2011 @ 4:10PM
bobinski said...I find it highly ironic when "journalist" refer to not yet born babies as a "fetus" until a pregnant women is killed "along with their unborn child".
(e.g. usatoday.com)
This sort of selective verbiage highlights the hypocrisy of political correctness on this debate.
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6-02-2011 @ 4:12PM
bobinski said...Margo Dydek