Facebook Lets Expectant Parents Add Unborn Children to Friends & Family
Expectant parents can announce the good news to their Facebook friends via a brand new Facebook family member status option.
Facebook’s 750 million users can reveal their soon-to-be bundles of joy by updating the “Friends and Family” section of their profiles to include an “Expected: Child.” Parents can also choose to add a photo, the name of the unborn child and a due date.
Once added, the unborn child is listed alongside family members on the user’s profile, and a notification is posted on the user’s Facebook wall.
出産予定の両親は、Facebook友達の新しいFacebook家族のステイタスオプションを通して、その喜ばしいニュースを報告することができる。
Facebookの7億5千万ユーザーは、「友達と家族」セクションのプロファイルに含まれる「出産予定：子供」をアップデートする事によって、彼らの近い将来の喜びを報告することができる。両親はまた、写真、出産予定のこの名前、出産予定日の追加を選択できる。
一度追加すると、出産予定の子供はユーザープロファイルの家族と一緒にリストアップされ、通知はユーザーのFacebookウォールに投稿される。
The status option seems to have been quietly rolled out to users last Wednesday, according to the British Daily Mail. At release, “a glitch in the system meant practical jokers could enter their friends’ names as expected children,” the paper reports. “This has now been fixed.”
The Mail also suggests the option is meant to appease expectant parents who would otherwise create profiles for their unborn child — and break Facebook’s terms of service.
“We’re always testing new features,” a Facebook spokesperson tells Mashable. “Earlier this year, Facebook started providing the option to add an ‘Expected: Child’ as a way for users to more accurately express their identity.”
Mailはまた、オプションは、生まれてくる子供のためにプロファイルを作成したい親の要望に応えている-そして、それはFacebookのサービス条項に違反している。
「私達はいつも新しい機能をテストしています」Facebookの代表者はMashableに述べている。「今年の初めFacebookは、ユーザーが更に彼らの正確な個性を表現する為の方法として、「予定：子供」の追加オプションを提供し始めた。
While some parents-to-be will delight in the ability to share the good news with their Facebook friends, no doubt others will balk at the idea. The Mary Sue Blog points out that the Facebook family member addition could be a potentially awkward one should the pregnancy not go as planned.
