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Personally I would feel weird showing the world something I peed on. But maybe that's just me.
@SweetRose2011: My friend did this, actually once 2 years ago as an April Fools joke (apperently everyone had been bugging her and her husband about having kids forever, they had only been married 5 years and were both like 26!) Then did it again a year ago when they actually were pregnant and no one believed them. That was until April 2 when they posted an ultrasound picture :D Personally, it isn't that big a deal to me, if they wanna announce it that way then power to them!
I don't really want to someone's pee stick on my news feed (I have a few friends that made their pee sticks their profile picture, and it bugged me). I don't think that is something I would do.
I have seen them on plenty parenting boards and fertility sites for people to see the lines or squinter lines, no issues there. But to post it for your co-workers and friends to see? I think they will take your word for it!
I'm indifferent. I mean...I don't think I would do it, but I don't get butt hurt if I see other people do it.
Some of my friends get annoyed when others post ultrasound pictures too saying "those are for the fridge"...I guess I'm going to annoy them whenever I get pregnant! Oh well!
doesn't really bug me. if someone posts things I don't want to see, I just move past it.
Doesn't bother me any. At least it's not a stupid status about how horrible their life is.
LOL.... I posted ours to my fb via IG... since it's a pic community I thought a pic with a "Big News @ "our" House" with the (l l) window would be the most appropriate. I pushed it to my fb so I didn't have to worry about friends seeing it first on one and then posting on my fb before I could post it.
I'm not one to really care about what people post in regards to "private" matters though... as long as they are just vulgar, raunchy, or just really ugly.. it doesn't bother me.
Yea, I don't want to see pictures like that. I also don't want to see minute by minute updates of the birth (or pregnancy at that matter). I also don't like seeing the ultrasounds on FB. That's just my opinion, I'm not judging... just saying I don't like it.
I totally agree! I think it's obnoxious to think anyone would WANT to see it!!
No thanks. I dont want to see a stick someone peed on. Also not really a fan of tons and tons of ultrasounds... yeah, maybe one cause you can't contain your excitement, but I think a pregnancy is a lot like weddings in this aspect - no one cares about all the little details as much as you do. Post too much about it... and your new feed gets blocked!
Honestly, I don't think it's all that bad. What's worse to me is when someone was posting their play by play of their labor on FB. I promptly hid that person from my feed. Considering how obsessive TTC bees are about peeing on sticks (myself included), I would get excited and post it too. Though, I'm super private on FB, so I wouldn't.
It's not something I would do, but I don't really see it as highly offensive or anything if someone wants to do it. And to be totally fair, the result window is usually the focus of the picture and that is not the area you pee on.
I am very annoyed by one. I congratulated, and automatically put her on my 'hidden' group so that her post will never appear on my feed anymore unless I decide to unhide her. I think announcement in words as status is way more appropriate. And people will not demand any 'evidence' anyway.
I feel the same away about this as I do about those who post that their child pooped in the potty...that it's gross and unncessary (and yes, I do hide the posts).
LOL, that is so bizarre. People tend to massively over-share about pregnancy/babies/etc. on Facebook, though.
People are just losing touch with common sense and cant tell the difference between things that they should and shouldnt share with the facebook community
@artbee: Me too. Whenever I see them I think "eww...pee pee stick." Mature, I know.
So what if they peed on it? I mean, presumably it has dried since then and now it's just a cool test! You know, the baby is gonna come out of her vagina eventually - do you not want to see pictures of the kid because of how it was created? :P
@BrightGreen: Ideally? Yeah, probably, but I'm not a big fan of babies, so...;P
@Mrs Grape: Completely agree. It's like an epidemic or something. I prefer to undershare on FB. I don't need or court the attention of friends like some people do. I'm happy to live my life under the FB radar. Somebody in the baby announcement thunder stealing thread suggested closing your wall while in labor. I'm filing that away as a must do in the future. It's a way to impose etiquette and I like it.
@Mrs Grape: Haha, well technically that's two different things! Although I think the next time a friend has a baby you should definitely comment on their first photo with "Ewww! That thing was just in your uterus!" lol
Not a fan, I don't want to see something you peed on. Also, I always wonder did you JUST find out in which case I think its risky to share with everyone you know or did you save a pic of a pregnancy test for 3 months just so you could post it to facebook.
I personally don't want to see what anyone peed on. If you REALLY need to put up the photo, just show me the two lines. For some reason, that would make me feel better than seeing the whole thing.
Yeah, a friend of mine just did that last week. I guess I didn't think about it that way, but she had just found out that day and told everybody on fb. I dont' think I'd be comfortable until I was out of the first trimester, but she was getting sick at work and she was worried they would say something on fb, so that's why she posted it. So I can see i guess in that circumstance
i wouldn't. I'd be more likely to do something goofy like buy this shirt, put it on my dog, and post a pic of it on fb. hahaha.
So here's a question - are these people who're posting the test stick on FB posting it as soon as they find out? I mean, I assume you don't keep the stick around for several weeks until you are in the second trimester. I had always heard it was best not to announce until you were in the second trimester, because of the high rate of miscarriages in the first trimester. So I'm just wondering about the logistics of this. I guess they could take a picture in anticipation of announcing it later, but that would mean they are really putting a lot of forethought into eventually posting something that they had peed on on the internet. Which is a little creepy, I think.
If the time comes for me to announce something like this on FB, I think a simple text-based status update will do just fine.
@Bubu82: my guess is they aren't keeping the stick itself around but they probably just have a pic of it they post after the 1st trimester is over. although some people do announce immediately. ballsy.
Facebook is information overload. Pee sticks and all. I get tired of it from time to time and just ignore my account and focus on living my life instead! :-)
I took a picture of it the same day, and posted it here on weddingbee the next day I think, but while we started telling family and friends right away, we didn't do a facebook announcement until we hit the 12 week mark. By then I realized that I really didn't want to post my pee stick. So instead I prepared this image (also my new weddingbee profile pic) using one i found online and pasting on our cartoon faces from vistaprint.
I didn't post pics on facebook, but I did take a few for us to keep. Those pee sticks were the start of a crazy adventure!
So many people I know have lost their babies in the early stages. Some of these women had told everyone as soon as they found out they were pregnant. And months later when they would run in to people and were asked about it, they would have to go over the story again about losing the baby.
So I've always thought it was best to wait until you’re past your first trimester before announcing it.
So pictures of pregnancy tests on facebook is over the top.
Wouldn't bother me at all - presumably the cap is back on the actual bit she wee'd on?
Edit - after the first trimester, of course.
I agree the preg tests pics on facebook are way too much. I definitely consider that to be private. I am borderline on the ultrasound photos... sometimes I think they are in bad taste, as well. Or i worry about 'jinxing' ... I don't think I would announce it to the fb world before the 2nd trimester. Family & close friends, yes... the internet, no.
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I was thinking about this earlier after seeing someone I'm friends with on Facebook post the photo of the stick she peed on being a positive.
Personally I don't find any reason for it. I feel that posting "Yay! We're having a baby!" is enough for me. I don't need a photo of a pregnancy test in my feed. I feel kinda violated, because that something is super personal to the couple who is having the baby.
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