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Hey Bees.... I just noticed a trend popping up on my facebook newsfeed.  It seems as though more and more of my friends/family on facebook are creating facebook profiles for their babies.  I'm not talking about letting your child create their own for personal use, I'm talking about parents making separate profiles for their babies and updating it themselves. One of my friends (who is also a family member) created a profile from "TBD lastname" when they found out they were pregnant and started sending friend requests out.

Has anyone else seen this/done this? Thoughts?

I guess it's not just a "noodlefish" facebook anomaly. I thought that maybe my friends just wanted to cheat at mafiawars/farmville/etc... 

No way. I'm not even going to let my kids create social networking profiles until they are out of the house. It is unneccessary and can be dangerous letting kids do what they want unsupervised, even if it is just online. I mean you can try to monitor, but look at all the kids committing suicide from cyber bullying. It is just getting sad.

It is scary... especially with how open facebook is. My fiance and I are a few years away from TTC, but some of our friends are already there. It's uncomfortable to have these pending friend requests in my inbox.  I don't want to offend my friends, but it weirds me out to have babies and three year olds as FB friends.

I have a cousin who is 5 she actually is allowed to get on and "play"   . . . ON HER OWN WITH NO ADULT SUPERVISION!!! This is the offspring of the uncle I refuse to invite to my wedding. I swear these people are asking for something dangerous to happen to this child. She's allowed to add friends and talk to people, she literally JUST turned 5. It's just to me one of the most dangerous things you could possibly do.

I agree put all the privacy settings on and if you only keep in touch with your family and close friends, people you know then put a pic or two of your kids up on YOUR account with a nickname and keep in touch with everyone but if you're one of those people that add whoever and anyone it's so crazy. I'm surprised FB doesn't have more rules and regulations over that kind of thing (I thought they did).

@SandDollar: I totally get where you are coming from on that one. I think sonogram pictures as profile pictures are weird and slightly creepy. I'm not getting a copy of our sonogram. I think that is because my sister copied both her kids' sonograms onto her computer, printed out copies, and gave them out framed as Christmas gifts (four years apart). Nothing says I love you like a sonogram picture!

@cricket Facebook used to have a lot of regulations on this- but as it grew in popularity their restrictions lessened. I remember when my university was added to the list of acceptable facebook groups- you had to have a valid school email from a preferred list of schools to join, then they added community colleges, then they added high schools, and finally opened it up to the public. As long as you have an email address you can make an account.

@SandDollar: Yeah I thought it was odd. She was one of those women though that was ALL about the pregnancy. Everyday she would go on about how wonderful it was and how special she felt. I kind of chalked it up to pregnancy hormones and just replaced out the pictures after a few months (they were nice frames).

I'm going to be one of those pregnant moms where I say everyday "Why did I do this again? I have HOW long left?!"

@littlemissmango I'm not positive because I've not read any of those articles but I think it has to do with several things not just the name. First just because you're profile and pictures are private it doesn't mean they are. I believe (and this is only my understanding) that if someone comments on your pictures that enables any of their friends (or public if they are not a private user) to see their comments and so your pictures, so strangers could in fact be viewing pictures of your kids or you. The other issue is with users who don't keep their profile to people they actually know only. What if a random acquaintance was a friend of yours, it's someone you don't know well this opens doors to the person knowing your child's name and what they look like and often where you'll be when (if you've posted information like that in your status etc.). As far as predators go it could basically be a map to all sorts of  easily accessible information. Again even if you untag your pictures its pretty amazing how easy it is to get into someones profile on the back end from a comment from a friend that you both know all it takes is 1 person.