Its a "game" if you comment on the post they'll send you a long list of improbable things for you to write on your timeline and then repeat with anyone that comments on your post.

Someone last night posted "I just found out my hubby has been having an affair for the last 5 Months". Que lots of people slagging her husband off, only for her to tell everyone to calm down as it was only a joke.

Some joke.

Somebody I vaguely know (and have been secretly playing Facebook Pregnancy Cliche Bingo with) finally gave birth a few weeks ago. Wasn't expecting the incessant updates to stop and they haven't, but to be fair it's her first kid, I'm sure I'll be equally annoyingly excited if I'm lucky enough to get the chance to have one.
Had to raise an eyebrow today though, just seen her celebrating the one month anniversary "...having been told in my teens that I could never have kids!"

Anyway, cue lots of 'well dun hun' and all the usual simpering. Her mother has just ruined it by chiming in with "Er, they never said you couldn't have kids! Just that you'd need to have them by C-section!"

She's replied "That's what I meant." Er, no. Busted.

Say what now!?!? She lost her baby at 20 weeks but has a photo of the dead foetus' legs?? How does that even work.

Well done mum! obviously sick of her daughters attention seeking!

She's unhinged. I hope the twist in the tale is that "hubby" leaves her and so do her facebrook "friends".

What is this sudden obsession with everything being a "date"?

I see married couples going out and referring to it as a "date night". Is it not just a night out?

I also see kids going to their friends house for a "play date". When I was young we just went round to our mates house to play.


It is possible to have a kid and remain a normal person. I've got a baby and haven't posted any pictures and have only mentioned him in one status and that was announcing that he'd been born and all was OK. My wife hasn't mentioned him either and has only posted one picture (because she was being asked to). Neither of us have a picture of him as our profile pics either. Some people seem to think that makes us weird.

That game with the "run out of toilet roll" or "I'm pregnant" etc updates has been doing the rounds for a while. I saw people doing it a couple of months ago.

Come on man, play the game. Tell me at least you've changed your FB name to 'Jambo "proud daddy" or "full-time daddy" Surname'

One of my friends gave birth last month, it's been a string of constant:

"I love my ickle man".
"My ickle man is one week old today"
"My ickle man is a smiler"
"My ickle man is two weeks old today"
"Can't believe my ickle man is so alert"
"Can't believe my ickle man is three weeks old today"
"They grow so fast"
"I love my ickle man more than anything"
"Look at these 20 photos of my ickle man"
"Look at these 40 photos of my ickle man"
"Ickle man with Daddy"
"My ickle man loves his granny and granddad, , love him so much"
"My ickle man is four weeks old today, where does the time go"

etc.etc.etc.

Definitely need a vomit smiley

Ah but it's all part of this silly facebook craze.

She gave birth to the fetus at 20 weeks pregnant, then the medical photographer took pictures of her holding the baby, pictures of her touching the legs, hands. They do that for mothers who go through this so they can treasure these moments. Most people keep it private.

Similar to the post above, I have a "friend" on Facebook (Someone I went to school with and haven't seen since) and she tragically lost her baby late in pregnancy and gave birth to her. Since then we have been inundated witth pics of the dead baby dressed in pink dress.
While I do feel sorry for her and what she had to go through, I do think posting several pics of a dead baby all over facebook is a bit... off. It's not nice to look at and if, let's say, her mother had died would she have put pictures of her dead body all over Facebook? It's all a bit disturbing when you're scrolling down your timeline and see the open mouthed face of a dead baby!

ETA: And of course, the baby is referred to as "Mummys angle"

Someone keeps going on about some drum and bass rave again. She's so excited she can't wait to get smashed off her head.

There seems to be some kind of war brewing between two people on the facebook page of our bus company. Most of the comments on there are people complaining because the service around here is awful but there is one person who is always defending the company and never has a late bus, ever (I take 4 buses a day and I don't remember the last time they all showed up on time). Someone else who complains a lot seems to be getting fed up on the bus fan and it's getting heated, it's fairly amusing

"Anyone know of any full time jobs going atm? Need to no asap. Thanks".

Maybe if she tried looking at job sites instead of facebook she might have some luck. Out of curiosity i put her postcode into a job search site and found a handful of jobs she could probably apply for but if shes too lazy to do that herself then its her fault.

In fairness, when I was job hunting I was scouring job sites for hours but also asked the question on Facebook periodically because sometimes people knew about openings that hadn't been put on agency sites or whatever, so it did help. A friend recommended a place to me and I got a job there

But yes I imagine it is likely there are people that can't be arsed and want people to find the jobs for them.

A friend just posted a picture of her kid's ankle looking horribly swollen after a "trampolining accident". A few hours later a new pic appeared of it in a cast with the caption "#broken"

This is great friend uploaded a pic of a man holding her baby son.

Friend 1. "Wow hes getting so big hun! Is your dad ok tho? He looks really unwell in this pic. Hope all is well and hope to see you all soon xx"

Poster of picture. "Erm thats my HUSBAND not my dad!! I wish people would stop saying stuff like this cos its not nice "

I feel so bad for her friend! In fairness though her husband whos mid twenties like she is actually looks like hes in his forties. This isnt the first time hes been confused for her dad either!

My friends partner is the same even though he is only 2 years older than her he looks old enough to be her Dad it doesn't help she looks young for her age either

I have a friend of Facebook who had a baby 5 months ago and she has already added 2000+ photos of him already!!

Every status she writes is about him and what he has done that day - I mean COME ON we know you love your son but for god sake give us all a break!

Or job as `boss at full time daddy`

Yeah in this case because the woman is so short she appears younger as well even though they are the same age.

To add insult to injury apparently someone at her wedding reception thought her dad was the groom and her husband was her dad because of how old he looked and the fact they had matching suits

I think his upbringing hasnt helped either in that his mannerisms and everything resembles that of a 50 year old rather than someone young!

"Best mothers day present ever!!! my little prince said mum for the first time!!!!"

He's 4 months old I'd imagine that was just babble and what you wanted to hear...

Either we have the same friend or this is now a thing, because I have a friend who has posted loads of pictures of their stillborn baby

he'll be walking tomorrow