This is not professional in any manner or used to be offensive in anyway. My intention is to inform the general public that there are unspoken rules of using Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc and I see these rules broken more than I would like.
The first thing I would like to address is mother's forcing their children down your throat. Okay, I will admit I am not a mother. However, I do love children and I absolutely support motherhood. I think moms rock! I know for sure when I have kids that I want my friends to know how rockin' of a mom I am and that my kids are totally awesome. Mom's do so much for their kids and they deserve to have their accomplishment's realized. Mom's love their kids so much!
...but do you have to love them 5 times a day on Facebook or Instagram? No. What cracks me up the most is that the kids don't actually have a Facebook or see any of this stuff until they are older... which the public has already seen...how embarrassing! There isn't any tagging and sharing with the kids like Facebook and Instagram is supposed to be used for. The over excessive kid pictures seem to be just a ploy to obtain more likes or notice on the web. "Oh I love them so much!!!" Really now? Did they know how much you love them, because, yes, you stated it to the whole world but they didn't see that.
I'm kidding though. Of course you love them :)
Babies are so darn cute! I could hold one all day if anyone asked me, but if I am scrolling for 30 seconds and seeing the same child's face with the captions "just woke up :)", "lunch time", "play time", "he loves his dog", "aw, he fell asleep on the floor", "daddy is home! Yay!", "bath time", and "bed time". Please, for the love, no one needs to see a picture of everything your kid does that day. And for heaven's sake do not put photos of the aftermath of an accident. We don't want to see your kids crying faces with scratches, bruises, sickness, rashes, broken bones, etc. I mean how am you supposed to respond to that? You can't "like" it. -Yay, kids look great with scrapes on their face!- The only thing you can do is comment, "Ow, I'm so sorry they hurt themselves." ...which is usually what the first 3 comments say but with different wording. I'm willing to bet the parents are already sorry that their child is hurt. So why post a picture? A plea for pity?
However, I do love seeing kids winning awards, taking their first bath, making huge messes, playing sports, and celebrating birthdays... and I really love seeing moms IN pictures with their kids. If you spend you're whole life behind the lens trying to capture every moment, you'll miss the actual moment and only remember it through the screen of a phone camera.
I, too, have experience with missing moments. I wish that I would not have lived through so many lake days, holidays, and vacations trying to snap pictures for memories because my greatest recollection of those moments have ended up being the taking-pictures part.
Annie Leibovitz, an american photographer, said, "The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
I like this quote a lot because sometimes I forget to just sit and watch the sunset instead of taking picture after picture trying to get the perfect lighting.
I'm not saying to never take pictures; I'm just saying take less. Keep the moments for yourself, don't give them to the camera. Be selfish. Those are your kids, not Facebook's. Don't "share" all your moments because it's your story, not ours.
