I can only guess that you don't have many friends with babies. As more and more new moms in my social circle end up on Facebook, I can barely find any real con

I can only guess that you don't have many friends with babies. As more and more new moms in my social circle end up on Facebook, I can barely find any real content in my news feed amidst the endless stream of cutesy pictures, "guess what face the little guy made today?", safe-for-all-ages jokes about the husband-wife relationship, etc. Re: the claim in the article, this type of stuff doesn't make me sad or anything, it just creates a lot of noise that I'm not interested in and makes Facebook seem kind of pointless. I know, I could start trimming my friends list, filtering my feed, etc., but when it comes right down to it, what Facebook originally offered (and IMO, the most important thing that it offered) during the college years was a comfortably small and relaxed social space that contained mostly my peers. Now I'm getting friend requests from everyone in my extended family, and I have to make the choice between unfriending my grandmother and broadcasting all my interactions straight into her feed? Crikey. I refuse to make that choice, so unless Facebook budges from their "We never intended you to be friends with acquaintances, coworkers, or family members!" party line and allows some sort of finer permissions control, my account's going to stay in zombie-mode.