Has anyone else not made any type of Facebook "announcement"?

ILoveBoys · April 2010

I don't know, it just seems weird to me. Most of the people I'm friends with are people I still talk to, or I chat with them on FB on a regular basis, but I haven't gotten around to telling everyone I'm pg again. Plus, it seems kind of AW'ish to post a status that says something about a baby.....like I'm looking for people to pay attention to me. Does that make sense to anyone else?

AND....if you DID say something on FB, how did you do it? Those stories are always fun.

brown_bride07 · April 2010

We actually didn't post anything about the baby- we just made our ultrasound photo our profile pic.

mrs.kapow · April 2010

I made sure I talked to everyone who was important to me before I even considered a fb announcement. I was still on the fence about it, but got some questions from friends as to whether I was intentionally hiding it on there or not.

So, when we found out LO is a girl, that's how I made my "announcement." I just said something along the lines of I can't believe we're having a baby girl! Baby Last Name will be here July 20.

DLD102 · April 2010

Me and I don't think I will until work knows...

JJ1973 · April 2010

I did - I'm forgetting exactly what I said...something joking about being in a "delicate condition." It was fun to get all the congratulations. That was it (no big deal). In facebook land, one update is only good/visible for a few hours, so I don't find it too obnoxious unless one drags it out day in and day out (constant status updates about their pregnancy).

monkiem · April 2010

I actually have a HUGE family that lives across the globe - not just this country. I also lived in 3 different countries growing up - so I have friends everywhere, as well. FB was the best way for me NOT to play favourites by telling everyone at the same time. I don't add friends on there just to have a higher friend count - I really only have people I speak to at least a few times a year or so.

It was really important to not play favourites, so that's why we did it that way. Except, of course, my close friends here in CT that we see on a regular basis.

All of SO's friends know in person because they all live in the area.

katie277s · April 2010

I did one update stating "DS is going to be the best big brother ever! New arrival comes this August!" I haven't said anything since. I did it mainly for extended family that I am friends with that I don't always talk to. My parents wanted me to tell them instead of them telling.

I do get tired of constant updates about pregnancy and such. A few here and there are fine, but every single one should involve it.

girlintheworld · April 2010

I did. I said something like "Watch out world, Baby .... will be here in August" along with my ultrasound pic. I got so many congratulatory comments. It was great!

K.a.T.e · April 2010

fb status updates announcing PG = NMS

vansgirl68 · April 2010

Nah, we didn't make any kind of annoucements or anything. I'm going to wait until we find out the gender and post something like "Team Pink/Blue" and put up an u/s pic. Almost all of my friends know I'm pregnant so it's not a big deal.

skyejo · April 2010

I just changed my profile pic to an u/s pic and changed my status to "can't wait until October 4th!"

I made sure that everyone close knew before I broke the news on FB. It was great getting all the comments!

DiAnne82 · April 2010

I didn't post anything. Most of the people I wanted to tell on FB, I told in real life so a FB announcement was unnecessary. I'm sure the word has spread, too. I'll probably announce if we are having a boy/girl on FB, and I'm sure some folks will be surprised then, but if they didn't already know by that point, they weren't that close to me anyway. I did finally say something about it on my blog today.

JhawkCE · April 2010

I haven't made any announcements at all other than we just kind of told our families and a couple of friends individually. I'm 24 weeks along so people have figured it out and it has spread, but I don't want it on facebook so I would delete anything that anyone would post on my page.

JulzRulz · April 2010

I posted a link to this video (kinda NSFW - language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJRzBpFjJS8

chiquilla981 · April 2010

I did make an announcement. But before I did, I made sure that all of my close friends and family already knew. The others just had to find out there. I announced it at about 13 weeks and that's only because my friends and family that did know were more exited than I was and really wanted me to post it. I posted something like, "God has done it again! He has sent us a little blessing and it will arrive later this year... We're having a baby!"

Everyone was super happy for us and received a ton of congratulatory comments on it, same thing when I posted my first profile pic showing my bump!

SammyBeeRivers · April 2010

I finally posted something on FB last week. I kept it very simple: "<i>my name </i> has 6 months to go!"

some people got it, some people didnt.... I'll make another announcement when I know the sex but probably wont mention it again...

mysticporter · April 2010

Everyone we're particularly close to we told by phone/email/in person. I did post a status update that we were expecting our 2nd kid. The whole reason I'm on FB is to keep in touch with people and to know what's going on with them, and I presume they are friends with me there for the same reason. Finding out about an impending child sure as hell seems more important news to share than "I'm going out for coffee now" or whatever.

happy-honey · April 2010

We still have more family to tell so we haven't made a FB announcement.

Aloe0l · April 2010

The only thing I AWed was when we found out the sex. I never did a "I'm pregnant" announcement. Just an "It's a girl!" announcment.

wilsonmom2be · April 2010

I did. We made sure to tell our immediate family first and my mom told most of her sisters but I have a very large family with cousins and second cousins all over the US so most of our family knew already but not everyone. I just said " I wonder if the world is ready for another Wilson?" And then I added my due date.

wife1014 · April 2010

no, I am not "announcing" on FB. It is not a secret anymore, but unless one can tell by my posts or friends comments, one wouldn't know. There will be no u/s photo posted, as I really hate that. Sorry to anyone who did it...just not my thing.

megmeister166 · April 2010

I did not make an announcement just NMS

tmbuchmann · April 2010

I haven't posted anything on FB, most of my friends are old High School people I never talk to. I'm just going to post pics after their born and be like, look I had a couple of kids!!

Ms.Wax · April 2010

Around 17/18 weeks I posted how I finally had to switch to maternity clothes. That was all...

SnowflakeBride06 · April 2010

vansgirl68:
Nah, we didn't make any kind of annoucements or anything. I'm going to wait until we find out the gender and post something like "Team Pink/Blue" and put up an u/s pic. Almost all of my friends know I'm pregnant so it's not a big deal.

I will do this...Dh was against the whole pregnancy announcement thing and he is ok with the gender announcement in 3 weeks. If someone posts something on my wall no biggie.

Although last night DH asked if I put anything on FB about it..like he kind of wants me to now but I would rather wait till we have the gender to announce

mrs07c · April 2010

I did, but I keep my FB peeps to only a few people and i'm set to private- ours was during Christmas so I posted something like... "Santa brought us a surprise! We'll be hearing the pitter patter of little feet this summer!"

Zista · April 2010

Nope, didn't do it. To AWish for me. Now DH, that's another story...

Soon_2B_MrsM · April 2010

I have been keeping people posted on FB regarding our LO (We have so many family members on FB that is just made sense to post it on there. The U/S pic is my profile pic.

I don't see anything wrong with it. I also have many friends on there who have done the same thing.

veebug22 · April 2010

We haven't yet, simply because we want to tell all of our closer friends first, and DH still has a few to tell, but we are going to announce after that. I have friends on FB that I don't speak with regularly but will feel totally hurt if they don't know, and they will be excited and happy about the news, so I want them to be in the loop! Our announcement is going to be something like:

"Saltines, $3; three tests to be sure, $28; tummy lotion, $9; seeing the look on your husband's face when you tell him he's going to be a dad...priceless!"

Gummybear · April 2010

I am not announcing on FB. It's NMS. I may post the sex but we'll see when we get there.

Sue&Pasquale · April 2010

I think I am next week after I see the doctor and have another ultrasound. I will 14 weeks. I think I will just post the ultrasound picture and say "they say a picture is worth a thousand words. I only have a few... We are expecting our first child on 10/10/10." or something like that.

I am thrilled to be where I am at I want to shout it on the rooftops!

HawaiiLover · April 2010

I made the announcement a couple weeks ago. We moved cross country and away from all of friends last year so it would cost a fortune and take hours to talk to everyone so this was the easiest way to go for us. I just made my profile picture one of our 4D ultrasounds and put 'coming soon!'. But we made sure to tell family before they saw it.

AdaraMarie · April 2010

I posted a photo album at 23 weeks but I didn't put anything in my status. By that time pretty much everyone I talk to regularly and my whole family already knew. So it was only an announcement to people who might have seen the album come up on their wall.

hopingwaiting · April 2010

I haven't. My FB announcement will be photos of my baby. Where's that unpopular opinions post, 'cause mine is that FB announcements are tacky.

BlondiePhD · April 2010

I waited till I had a noticeable bump and then posted an updated profile picture. I'm not really a fan of the 12 week announcements and wanted to make sure that all my close friends and extended family found out our news in a more personal way first. It was really nice reading all the well wishes.

ridafatima · April 2010

the whole point of FB status is "hey pay attn to me" so another update about pregnancy is in line w/ the FB culture. After telling close family/friends, I posted "DH and I are excited to welcome a new addition to their family in late july". It was mostly for sorority sisters and friends who I don't see as often.

gobbler · April 2010

I posted on Aprils fools day and just said "I'm pregnant". The replies were great and left people still wondering if it is true.

Chickpea2010 · April 2010

I alluded to it. Some people got it and commented, which sort of spread the word. A big announcement is totally NMS, but the friends and family who did know kept wanting to know if it was a FB secret because they wanted to be able to write on my wall about it, etc. Some people are still figuring it out, which is weird because I have posted some pretty blatant things (ie "the cat is in prime position on my lap, I hope the baby finally kicks her butt tonight").

Ready2006 · April 2010

K.a.T.e:
fb status updates announcing PG = NMS

Ditto.People have mentioned it on my Wall and I'm not upset about that, but AWing my pregnancy to receive congrats from people I didn't care about enough to tell in person is just not something I'd do.

I got flamed to holy hell for saying on First Tri that posting anything before you were at least 12 weeks was naive. I still think it is. A girl my Sister is friends with posted when she was 2 milliseconds pregnant (and, of course, is now wearing maternity jeans at 8 weeks and talking about how huge she is). I get how exciting it is and how much you WANT to be there, but sharing crap like that with the world when things still commonly go wrong is a bad move. Even if you're selective with friends on FB and aren't friends with every Tom, ***, and Harry you went to HS with, do you really want to tell all those people if something happens?

h2babe · April 2010

ME! And of all the people in the world; I update my FB status frequently. But I have not made any references on my pregnancy on Facebook unless someone mentions it to me first (friends/co workers who know). But I don't know why, I just keep them to myself. Ditto with the pregnancy, I didn't tell them until I started showing.

earthycrunchymama · April 2010

I waited til my gender ultrasound and posted XX + XY + ?? = XX as my status... Wink

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