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2nd Trimester
How long will your Facebook profile pic...
... be of your baby (if at all)?
My SIL has had photos of her daughter as her FB profile photo since before she was born. The child is now a year and a couple months.
What intrigues me is that she also has two boys. And they have never been her profile pic unless they were in a pic with their new sister.
What also intrigues me is the new identity of being a mother. Do I lose my own identity if every status update and every photo is of the LO? Is it pretty normal to do that for X amount of time once the LO arrives?
I've already told DH I hope I am not that person. I hope my profile pic is not LOs for the next three years and all my status updates are not about late night feedings and being tired of changing diapers.
Of course, I am open to that possibility that this may change once I have that baby in my arms.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts. Discuss.
Heading up the street to my sister's as she has promised to feed me and I am too lazy to do more than open a bag of crispy minis.
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Re: How long will your Facebook profile pic...
my profile pic is currently of me, I will imagine it will stay the same after the babe is here. I upload pics to flickr and that is attached to my FB, so my contacts can see pictures of the LO that way.
I too have no desire to be the person that loses their identity in their children. I mean I can accept that when the baby first arrives it will be all about him or her. However I would like to retian my membership in the adult non mommy world as well.
I don't know if my profile pic will ever be of JUST my daughter but I'm sure it will always be a picture of at least me and her.
I think that a big part of my identity right now is being pregnant and when baby gets here, being a mother. But that is what I want for myself. I'll never be just a mother but I expect that to make up a large part of who I am. I'm also currently unemployed so I expect a lot of my updates to be about my child just because I'll probably end up being a SAHM until I can find a job and won't be starting up school again until January
I won't put pics of the boy on FB. I don't want to be one of those people that assumes everyone wants to see/hear about their kid.
*Disclaimer: I am not a very active user of FB. At all.
My pic is one of Layla & I.. and hopefully when the new baby comes I'll get one of all three of us. ?
I did have one of just me, so I don't feel like I have to have Layla & the new LO in there.
I think some people let it overtake everything, but I am still my own person. ?You know? ?I don't want to completely lose who I am b/c I have kids. ?I am proud & want to show them off, but I just don't think I will have only LO in the picture for years or anything. ?
I have a FB friend that writes every update about her DD. I'm not that interested in her posts, but do look to see when she can write one without mentioning her. Even when she is commenting on something she brings her LO into it.
DH and I don't want to plaster our kid all over the internet. I think J&K+8 has made us paranoid about putting our kids out there (irrational I know). But we have also made our wishes clear to our families, but as always, this could change once the LO comes and we want to share him/her with our friends and family.
When you have a kid, that kids BECOMES your life.
Sometimes my profile picture is of DS if it's a cute new picture, other times it's me, and sometimes it's me with DH. Right now I think it's me with DS. That's just what I felt like putting there at the time. Of course DS comes up in conversation and I generally mention him a lot, because he's a huge part of my life now. But that doesn't mean it's ALL I talk about, or that is ALL my life is about. I have other things that come up a lot too, like my love for photography or my business and things like that.
I'm a very private person when it comes to certain things in my life. Most people on FB don't even know I'm pregnant. Heck, most people I know don't even know yet! I have an album called Things We Made for Atticus, but that is it.
I honestly don't think I'll ever post a photo of him and I surely won't make my status messages about him.
I change mine periodically. Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's of one child, sometimes it's both kids, sometimes it's me with one kid or the other, sometimes, me and DH or a family photo. I wouldn't leave one pic up that long of a baby and if Iput one of one child, I switch it so there's one of the other child at some point too.
My facebook status depends on the moment. Sometimes it is about my kids. Sometimes it's about my DH. A lot of times it's what I'm doing at that moment.
Thanks for sharing, ladies.
Nice to know there are others out there with the same fears and hesitations as me.