--- title: Facebook Baby Pictures Aren't Actually Taking Over Says Science description: It seems like baby pics are everywhere, but your mind might be playing tricks on you canonical: https://time.com/59992/baby-facebook-imagination/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-11T20:49:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:44.409Z og:title: Is The Baby Invasion Of Your Facebook Feed Really Just A Figment Of Your Imagination? og:description: It seems like baby pics are everywhere, but your mind might be playing tricks on you og:url: https://time.com/59992/baby-facebook-imagination/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25eb84eb70f7bfec/69868a4b13c79f453119192b/187110724.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3090 og:image:height: 1738 og:image:alt: baby og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Is The Baby Invasion Of Your Facebook Feed Really Just A Figment Of Your Imagination? twitter:description: It seems like baby pics are everywhere, but your mind might be playing tricks on you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25eb84eb70f7bfec/69868a4b13c79f453119192b/187110724.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Facebook Baby Invasion Is Probably Just a Figment of Your Imagination > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Apr 11, 2014 8:49 PM UTC  Children and tablet computer Children and tablet computer Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Apr 11, 2014 8:49 PM UTC Last year, I experienced a Facebook trauma that made me question if I could ever trust my News Feed again. There I was, scrolling away and minding my own business, when the photo of a sonogram popped up: “The arrow is pointing at baby’s scrotum/peepee!!” the caption exalted. “That’s our boy!!! Mommy and Daddy love you soooo much!!!!” For some reason, I hadn’t registered that this would be my News Feed’s natural progression after all of those engagement ring, “OMG I SAID YES, NOW CHECK OUT THIS ROCK!,” photo shoots. And like that, I started seeing baby Facebook photos everywhere. Or maybe,like many other Internety 20-somethings, I was just being melodramatic. [Because according to apiece on _Wired_,](http://www.wired.com/2014/04/babies-on-facebook/) which enlisted the help of Microsoft Research computer scientist Meredith Ringel Morris, there really aren’t that many baby photos out there. --- > “” --- New moms undershare. I’m probably more likely to see someone taking a selfie with Crab Cakes Eggs Benedict than their progeny. But I am probably less prone to be shocked by bacon and eggs than I am by a peer entering the parenthood stage of life. Morris said that another reason why baby photos might seem to show up more frequently could be because they get a disproportionate amount of likes and, thus, get promoted on feeds. I’ll admit, I panicked and liked the “Peepee” shot… I’m part of the problem! So what it all comes down to is, we all need to chill out and stop whining about the baby pictures. Even though some people definitely do overshare—a [Twitter employee recently live tweeted her own labor](http://time.com/51689/twitter-employee-live-tweets-her-babys-birth-because-twitter/)—it’s not that big of a deal. \[[_Wired_](http://www.wired.com/2014/04/babies-on-facebook/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/59992/baby-facebook-imagination/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/59992/baby-facebook-imagination/"},"headline":"The Facebook Baby Invasion Is Probably Just a Figment of Your Imagination","datePublished":"2014-04-11T20:49:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:44.409Z","description":"It seems like baby pics are everywhere, but your mind might be playing tricks on you","url":"https://time.com/59992/baby-facebook-imagination/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Millennials","Internet","Family","facebook","Science topic","baby"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25eb84eb70f7bfec/69868a4b13c79f453119192b/187110724.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25eb84eb70f7bfec/69868a4b13c79f453119192b/187110724.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"baby","caption":"187110724","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/59992/baby-facebook-imagination/","name":"The Facebook Baby Invasion Is Probably Just a Figment of Your Imagination"}}]}] ```