I’m a Facebook baby bore. If you don’t like it, log off | Charlotte Philby

I sympathise with the ‘friends’ of an Australian mum who told her to stop posting her baby photos, but it’s a small crime in the narcissistic online world

“Jade, I have got together with a few of the girls and we are all SO OVER your running commentary of your life and every single thing Addy does. We all have kids that we are besotted with – guess what – every parent thinks their kid is the best ever.” When Jade Ruthven first opened the handwritten envelope that came through her mailbox in Perth, Western Australia, she was, she says, very excited at first, thinking it was an invite.

So it came as a bit of a shock to read a letter imploring her to stop posting updates about her baby on Facebook:

Asking us to refrain is like telling a nicotine addict they shouldn’t smoke. You can’t help doing it anyway

Related: Dear Facebook, stop our smug posts – not the drunken ones | Holly Baxter

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