Unborn child has Facebook profile
"I am growing strong and waiting to get out of my mom's belly," fetus Marriah Greene says on her Facebook profile.
Unborn baby Marriah Greene has a lot to say, at least according to her Facebook profile.
The child attends Tummy University, enjoys soccer and swimming and talks in first person. And her friends talk back to her– in baby-speak, naturally.
Of course, it’s really her mother, Ellie Greene of Whitehouse, Texas, updating the page, but the fetus already has more than 260 friends.
When Ellie and her husband, Matt, decided it was time to announce their pregnancy, they wanted a quick, inclusive method, and what’s faster than Facebook to spread exciting news?
“Within a day she had over 100 friends,” Ellie said, according to affiliate KLTV.
Friends quickly responded to updates about Marriah. They give advice, make jokes and compliment her beauty in the ultrasound photos.
“We wanted to keep the page going, so she could go back and look at it,” Ellie said, giving her daughter the opportunity to see how many people adored her before she was even born.
The parents plan to continue updating the page, with her birth story coming soon. After all, “The word in the belly is there's a lot more to see.”
Barf. That is all.
ReplyDeleteBarf, indeed F&T. This one's not even born and she's already extra special super duper major awesome and more.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be noooo fun to be the teacher half of a parent-teacher interview with this bunch.
" . . . and what’s faster than Facebook to spread exciting news?"
ReplyDeleteTell my mother-in-law.
I'm sure this isn't actually the first facebook page documenting a pregnancy, nor is starting a record of a child's life pre-natal a new thing: how many scrapbooks include a picture of a pregnant mom, an ultrasound?
ReplyDeleteThis is just the first one that got forwarded to a reporter bored enough to write the story.
For better or worse, Facebook and other social media allow us to remain engaged with family and friends that are physically or socially distant, recreating a kind of clan environment.
Fair point Jon D ...
ReplyDeleteBut this goes far beyond a "Coming attractions ... " card/Facebook page with beaming momma/poppa to be and (obligatory) ultrasound pic.
These special folks are speaking (for nine whole months!) for their super spiffy fetus, who attends ... "Tummy University"?
Sorry, but I agree with ... BARF!
And yes, a pox on the house of the "journalist" who felt the world needed to know about this.
Personally, my favorite baby communication was that imagined by Steven Wright as being kept by a baby in its diary:
"Day 1 -- Still tired from the move.
Day 2 -- Everyone talks to me like I'm an idiot!"
THAT is much more realistic than anything Marriah is "saying."
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ReplyDeleteI do not think that establishing a Facebook page for a child will send her headlong down the path to snowflakiness. It's just parents being excited and at least trying to be creative in the way they let people know how their child is doing. If it gets old after a while, the parents will stop writing and people will stop reading. With so many social networking tools available and easy to use, I found it tough to restrain myself from broadcasting how awesome my new born daughter was. I think that's normal. If we didn't love little babies so much, few would make it to teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI found this story quite fascinating until I read "Of course, it’s really her mother...updating the page." After that I lost interest.
ReplyDeleteWell, barf is not quite all. It's sweet, if mildly tiresome for non-parents, when parents like Beaker Ben broadcast the awesomeness of their newborn. It's creepy when parents ventriloquize the voice of their fetus.
ReplyDeleteBut that's what they want, Frog and Toad; a living marionette who goes to their old grade schools and colleges, and are willing to ape their parents' mode of employ. Thankfully some of them rebel, run off, and become human beings.
ReplyDeleteI am pregnant and I have made a solemn oath to my child to not put any pictures of him or her on my facebook until I can get their conscious consent to do so. I have seen some of my friends put pictures of their kids potty-training and in other compromising positions and find it disgusting. My kid will have a right to privacy.
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