Ultrasounds on Facebook: TMI?

July 22, 2009 at 10:59 am PT

Lately I’ve noticed that a lot of friends and acquaintances are announcing their pregnancies–and posting their sonograms–on Facebook.

I’m getting to the age where many of my friends are starting families–and I’m just as happy to hear their news as my friends are to share it. But at least a dozen of my Facebook connections have taken it a step further by uploading their sonograms for everyone to see.

While I realize pregnancy is an exciting process, I wonder if broadcasting the insides of your body, much less your undeveloped child, to co-workers and friends you haven’t talked to since middle school is sharing a bit too much.

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Tagged with: digital, Digits, Facebook, families, frontpage, Internet, Marisa Wong, pregancy, social networking, software, sonogram, The Juggle, The Wall Street Journal

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