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People generally have children in order to reproduce their own imperfect selves and try to make them more perfect.
This is a legitimate, if slightly warped, activity -- yet we tolerate it for what we imagine is a social good.
However, less of a social good is these parents constantly thrusting images of their progeny into the exclusive preserve of our Facebook pages.
They don't imagine that others might find these pictures annoying, dull, or -- dare one say it -- visually displeasing. They do it to wave their own fecundity into your every day.
There is now relief from this discomfort, a tool that has interesting ramifications.
Unbaby.me is a plug-in that has, as its sole purpose, the ability to not only delete baby pictures from your Facebook newsfeed but also to replace them with something more palatable -- like pictures of your favorite car, wrestler, or action figure.
Personally, I don't hate babies. I love babies. But I do get tired of looking at babies."-- Unbaby.me co-creator Yvonne Cheng
The Los Angeles Times explains that Unbaby.me is the br... [Read more]
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