Facebook is now allowing parents-to-be to list their unborn children on theis personal profiles. Along with the option of "Expected: Child", parents can add the due date and the baby's name. With the feature, the expected child would appear to the other family members on the user's profile and changed status would appear in friends' news feed.
The option has existed for a while, but the internet didn't pick it up on it until this week and the British Daily Mail had reported that the feature "rolled out" last Wednesday. The Mail and others had speculated that the option is meant to cut down on parents who create separate Facebook pages for their as-yet unborn children. According to Facebook rules, anyone under 13 cannot have a page.
In my opinion, I think this feature is good, but bad as well. In one way, it is good because it let's your closes friends and family members know that you are expected a child and when the baby is going to be due. It would be good to inform old friends whom you can't get in touch with via phone. It is also bad because the mother could have a miscarriage. Using the feature on Facebook is like telling people that you are pregnant to their faces basically. However, I just think it would cause more sadness if that was to happen. Not only that, not all of your friends on Facebook are really your "closest friends" so even though they will feel sorry for the loss, to the mother it wouldn't really be a "meaningful" sorry.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/08/02/facebook.expected.child.pregnancy/index.html?hpt=te_r1
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