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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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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 3)
6-02-2011 @ 4:58PM
katrina said...It ISN'T a "baby" until it's born. Before that it is a fetus. It is only the anti-choice people who insist on calling it a baby.
6-03-2011 @ 1:06AM
bobinski said...as it is only the pro-abortion people who attempt to dehumanize the baby by calling it a fetus.
6-03-2011 @ 1:09AM
bobinski said...as it is only the pro-abortion people who attempt to dehumanize the baby by calling it a fetus.
6-02-2011 @ 4:29PM
stew said...big deal. i have a facebook page that is for my dog. too many people take this stuff way too seriously. lighten up!!!
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6-03-2011 @ 9:08AM
James said...Marriah??? That alone tells you these people are morons
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6-03-2011 @ 9:54AM
Joan said...I think some people need to chill out and have some fun in their lives.
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6-02-2011 @ 4:44PM
Jen said...How funny, they get a news story and their page gets removed. You know Baby Marriah, Facebook guidelines clearly state you must be 13 to get a facebook page. Shame on your parents for allowing you to be dishonest and break the rules already. At this rate, you could be a juvenile delinquent by age 2!!!!!
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6-02-2011 @ 5:02PM
Jenny said...I don't know about other people, but I'd do my darndest to keep my child as far away as possible from any type of social media ....but that's me.
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6-02-2011 @ 5:02PM
Louis said...My bird started "tweeting" when he was in his egg. He had several friends on Twitter.
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6-02-2011 @ 5:39PM
Jon Kaufmann said...Hey, lighten up.
These parents just want to share the development of their child even before birth. If people choose to "friend" the child, what makes you the guardian of the net?
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6-02-2011 @ 5:55PM
nibblet321 said...this is beyond retarded.
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6-02-2011 @ 6:10PM
caroles778 said...This is cute, more like keeping up with the Kardashian, with people knowing every step of the way. What else can people think off.......At least this child is not genderless.
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6-02-2011 @ 6:10PM
Lisa said...So, they lied and said the fetus was 13 years old? Way to start off a new life, with lies.
How utterly too cutesy wootsey, having the baby tell its side of pregnancy! The pregnancy is only special to this couple, their families and friends. It isn't the world's first pregnancy. People need to get over themselves.
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6-02-2011 @ 6:36PM
Todd said...Facebook...a place for narcissists..
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6-02-2011 @ 7:48PM
NormaLee said...I have only sympathy for people who do not own pride in self.
"love our Life" thou doest protest too much..get thee to a shrink .If you truly loved your life, you do not have a need to shout it out to strangers.
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6-02-2011 @ 7:10PM
vampire9545 said...don't you need to be,at min,13 to have a facebook? and it said friends, so it must be a facebook not a fan page. so why isn't the page removed?
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6-02-2011 @ 10:59PM
jotwinowski said...How very cutesy. And I bet all her friends in High School will ferret this out and tease her unmercifully. I wish parents would think ahead before unloading in public. Incidentally, in more than 60 years of life, I have NEVER met a single person who was particularly iterested in their own birth and infancy - although their friends and relatives tend to find the parents records hilarious. For this child, the hilarity is not going to be limited to friends and relations - it's been provided to the whole wide world.
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6-02-2011 @ 7:48PM
dee said...What crime is worst than murdering a child, even in prison they will kill you. Abortion is torturing and murdering a child who is then thrown in the garbage. It is first degree murder at any stage, the life begins in conception.
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6-02-2011 @ 7:51PM
tem said...these idiots just want their 15 minutes. Steralize now and rid the world of them
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6-02-2011 @ 7:57PM
Lisa said...Aren't you supposed to be 13 before you begin a facebook page? The couple is in danger of losing this page if they have lied about the birth year of the baby. Facebook can delete it and might. What would it have to be? 1998 at least! That baby hasn't even been born yet.
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