Anonymous wrote:I love those posts and would find it so interesting. It is one of the few times in life when celebrating proudly seems in order.

Yes this. A tasteful post would be:

“We are so proud of X, who will attend Y this fall. They grow up so fast!”

Anonymous wrote:Kid in the school sweatshirt, done.

You’re allowed to brag. And the kids who got rejected aren’t your problem.

No. Who raised you, a goat?

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I do not have a Facebook account.

Yes! I thought I was the lone hold out.

Another holdout checking in! I have been tempered lately but I have held out so long, I hate to give up now.

Tempted, not tempered.

I do not have Facebook but I thought it was mostly exactly this - posted little details about your life for other people to coo over. Is "Larla got in to Yale" very different then "Here we are on our African Safari". What else do people post? "Here I am on way to my annual physical"?

Same. Never been on, never tempted. But I assumed this kind of thing is exactly what it’s for.

By all means post where they will be attending. Personally I would avoid stating the acceptances.

Some of you people need to get off facebook. You can't handle it.

Anonymous wrote:Dude, when my kid got into Harvard, I posted a pic of myself in Harvard swag!

Isn't that why we're here?

I posted this tic of course, but honestly, I'm genuinely interested and like seeing the excitement.

I think it is obnoxious when parents add obnoxious comments. I had a friend that posted "My child got into ASU (only a safety, so hopefully won't go there)". However, I think it's great to see a proud parent celebrate their child's achievements. If you have a problem with it, don't friend that person on FB

Anonymous wrote:Dude, when my kid got into Harvard, I posted a pic of myself in Harvard swag!

Isn't that why we're here?

Love this. Me too!

This is so funny. People post about everything their kids do on Facebook why would you not want to post about something that’s such a major thing and fun for people to know? Why is that considered bragging?

This is a ridiculous thread. Post what you want. Who cares what other people think. We can post pictures of food, weight loss, expensive vacations, birthday messages, etc. but not our kid getting into college. If you have friends rolling their eyes at that, get new friends. I love seeing it. I have three kids in college. I posted where two got in because it was their first choice and only application. I posted the other's first because it was a big deal after what he has endured in life. But I did not post the other acceptances. But who cares if I would have. People who have a problem with this are the problem.

Dude, when my kid got into Harvard, I posted a pic of myself in Harvard swag!

Isn't that why we're here?

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Anonymous wrote:Kid in the school sweatshirt, done.

You’re allowed to brag. And the kids who got rejected aren’t your problem.

This!

The people in this camp have no idea how much people roll their eyes at them, even the ones who like the post. It shows such a startling lack of self-awareness. Call grandma and tell your closest friends offline. Anything else you do with regards to social media is tone deaf.

I am curious what you think the purpose of social media is if not to post important family news such as this? Maybe you just use social media for political grandstanding or diary entries of your boring life?

I think it's fine to post in May just not now and not all the schools DC got into. No one cares that DC got into Duke, MIT, and USC and chose MIT. Just post in May DC with MIT sweatshirt. It's not boasting then.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I do not have a Facebook account.

Yes! I thought I was the lone hold out.

Another holdout checking in! I have been tempered lately but I have held out so long, I hate to give up now.

Tempted, not tempered.

I do not have Facebook but I thought it was mostly exactly this - posted little details about your life for other people to coo over. Is "Larla got in to Yale" very different then "Here we are on our African Safari". What else do people post? "Here I am on way to my annual physical"?

You'd be surprised! I've seen exactly that.

Anonymous wrote:Over the years my Facebook has seen a litany of other kid's sports trophies, prom queens, etc.

But god forbid when the kid has an academic achievement, that's somehow "too gauche".

I agree with you. But in our family, kids get financial limits on college, we approve colleges that go on the list (we’ve never disapproved of one, and one went on with an: it’s a safety and we are only paying for it if you have no other option). We do a financial breakdown of the options with the kid. We are glad to be sounding boards. But the decision is the kids. As such, you respect that the timing and manner of announcement are the kid’s and you try not let your ego get too wrapped up in their college choice.

It’s like posting: I’m going to be a grandma! You don’t do it when DD is 5 weeks pregnant and calls you. You do it when she’s ready to make the pregnancy public, if she is comfortable with it.

Same deal with college. You can’t expect your kid to act like an adult if you don’t treat them like one.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I do not have a Facebook account.

Yes! I thought I was the lone hold out.

Another holdout checking in! I have been tempered lately but I have held out so long, I hate to give up now.

Tempted, not tempered.

I do not have Facebook but I thought it was mostly exactly this - posted little details about your life for other people to coo over. Is "Larla got in to Yale" very different then "Here we are on our African Safari". What else do people post? "Here I am on way to my annual physical"?