looking at photos of other peoples children

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Why do people think you want to look at photos of their children?

I mean, all babies look the same unless its your own. Yawn.

People spam their facebooks of pics of their children etc, post them on forums. imo photos of your children are for the family to look at or maybe one family pic to slip into a Christmas letter.

I know the parents are proud of their own kids but who else really cares?

I think some people just act all excited so other people will look at their pictures in return.

My favorite line is something I borrowed from a man I knew many years ago:

"Ah, now that's a baby!"

Mothers beam from ear to ear and I can get away without looking like an ass.

I sometimes wonder - would parents get offended if you couldn't tell whether their 6 month old kid was a boy or a girl?

I was at facebook to accept someone as a friend who went to my high school. I saw my other school mate's name there and she had a picture of a new born baby which is probably her own and it made me feel a little sad. Everyone is having babies and I haven't had one yet. I would have been a mother at 24 if I didn't have that miscarriage.


No I don't care for seeing babies and kids of other people. I only care if I am curious what someone looked like when they were children.


I don't think babies look the same because they all have different looks.

It kind of makes me want to go back to my own childhood, and make right all the things that went wrong.

this could be extended to - why do people think you're interested in seeing their pictures IN GENERAL.

I mean seriously. I have great respect for the few people who realise that less is more when it comes to photographs. doesn't matter where you've been on holiday, even if you've travelled across the globe, no one wants to see 50+ f*****g pictures! I've been called rude many times over this, but I just absolutely refuse to look at more than 50-60 pictures from holidays that I myself was not on

one of my co-workers is a really good photographer, awesome with portraits and reportage-type photographs, but he posts over a hundread photos from each party he's on. in such mass of pics the quality becomes completely transparent.

I have an experience this with: my daughter and I were looking at pictures of my sister's little kids. I was interested in the pictures only to see how different they look than my sister or anybody in our family, and was sitting there the whole time musing on genetics...while my NT daughter got all excited and talked about how cute they are...so two completely different experiences.

I actually enjoy looking at photos of my nieces and nephews, even though my feelings towards them can be very mercurial at times. It makes me wish for two things. It makes me wish I were a sweet little innocent child again, and it makes me wish I was actually close to my nieces and nephews, instead of them shying away from me and me always feeling awkward and not knowing how to interact with them.

What does it matter if they do ? They want to share their joy. Some people might actually like seeing them. I don't really like looking at other people's children but I like seeing pictures of the children in my family, why wouldn't I ? And people have a right to post pictures on Facebook of children so their family members can see them.

Because they love them so much they want to share it.

I think

When someone wants to show me a picture of their child(ren) it goes like this:

"I have this really cuuuuute picture of my baby, wanna see?!"

"Seen it."

"Well here...what? When did you see it?"

"I've seen what a baby looks like, no need to show the picture."

"But it wasn't a picture of my baby! Mine is TOTALLY cuter!"

"Is it bald? Wrinkley? Ugly as hell? is it's head disproportional to it's body? Does it cry and defecate all over itself? Yeah, I've seen it."

Of course, that tends to anger some people.

I usually look at the first few to see how good the photographer is, and wether I can tell what type/brand of camera they used. It always amazes me that people are excited to show you a bunch of photos that are all out of focus and crooked. You would think that if you wanted to show how great your kid is, that you would at least hold the camera straight and make sure the kid is at least in focus. Something else that amazes me is photos of there kids that they got done at a studio, and they think the photos look great, when in reality a chimp could have done a better job.

I don't enjoy looking at people in real life, let alone in picture.