There comes a moment in every 20something’s life when the posted photos on her Facebook Newsfeed slowly transition from pics of peers doing keg stands and making sloppy duck faces into the camera to glamor shots of engagement rings, weddings and pregnant bellies for all to see. And although some are cute enough to compel me to hit the Like button (an honor usually reserved for pictures of cocktails, animals behaving like humans and candid photos of people dressed crazy on subways) some of you really need to stop because your professional pregnancy/engagement/wedding photos are just plain awkward. If we were strangers I would say, “Hey, keep the awesome awkward coming!” but we actually know each other and how do you expect me to look you in the face when I know that you not only signed off on, but paid for, the photos of you rubbing oil all over your belly while your husband holds your nekkid boobs from behind? Too much!
And that goes for your awkward engagement photos, too – specifically the ones of you in matching sweaters, on a swing set and strategically holding hands to show off that ring. Really natural, guys. Don’t get me wrong, I’m more than happy for you and can’t wait to meet all your fiance’s best men and drink everything at your wedding reception (open bar!), but could you please not post the pics of the two of you groping each other on a beach? I love you, but that is some awkward TMI.
Anyway, if you do choose to commemorate your very special life pinnacles with glamor shots, please first consider if they are so awkward that they will windup being snarked on all over the interwebs by a bitter single person like me.
