Oh Facebook

I, like most people my age, have a Facebook page.  Unlike a lot of people, if you visited my page you wouldn't be able to find out very much about me.  My profile picture is almost 5 years old, I've never added any photo albums (occasionally I'm tagged in someone else's photo album), and I never update my status.  I basically have a page so that if I want to contact an old friend I have an easy way to do it.  I also love having a Facebook page so I can "stalk" all the people who post way too much information on Facebook.  I've read several wonderful posts about all the fertile people who reveal their pregnancies on Facebook in overly cutsie or obvious ways.  For example, on Sunday, this was my pregnant-SIL's status, "Happy Father's Day to father-to-be (her husband's name)!!! Yep. You all heard that right :D"  Now she is 13 weeks pregnant, so it's probably considered safe to be announcing, but really??

It's one thing if you want to announce your own personal news, but it's another thing when someone else does it for you.  I'm not sure if this is something new or not, but I was shocked by what happened.  On Friday afternoon, J sent me this text, "Our news is on facebook.  posted by a cousin I haven't seen in almost 2 years."  Um, cue total freaking out!  At this point we had told very few people that we were pregnant, almost none of our friends knew.  I called him immediately to tell him to remove the news.  Apparently he was over-reacting because it wasn't actually on his page, she had sent him a message and when the email popped up he didn't read it really closely.  Crisis averted! 

The next day, to celebrate Father's Day we had dinner with my inlaws, BIL and his pregnant wife.  She is between 7 and 8 weeks pregnant and has already shared her news with tons of people.  That day she told me that their news was already on Facebook.  Um, okay?  Then she tells me that it was someone else who put it on there.  Oh my gosh - when did that become appropriate?  It turns out that it was one of J's aunts.  Shouldn't she know better than to do that?  I'm not friends with her on Facebook, but J is so the whole drive home (about an hour) I kept panicking that there might be something on his page.  It turns out their wasn't, thank goodness.  But there was something on my SIL's page (before she posted her announcement), my BIL's page and his wife's page.  My question is what is wrong with J's aunt?  How is it possible that she didn't know that wasn't something appropriate to do?  We changed our privacy settings so people can't post on our walls just in case she gets the urge to post something again.  Jeez!