Prank pregnancy announcements are flooding social media feeds and a lot of people aren’t happy about it.
BY ZARA HUSAINI HANAWALT
Inexplicably enough, fake pregnancy announcements are now trending on social media. Yes, you read that right: Apparently it’s now a thing for people to post chain-style social media posts expressing that they’ve recently learned they are pregnant. The posts are generally quite lengthy, expressing “news” of the pregnancy towards the top, giving plenty of details towards the middle and finishing off with a zinger: the whole thing is just a joke. Social media users then prompt their friends to copy and paste the posts and share them on their own platforms.
Strange things happen on the Internet, and fads like these will always come and go, but for some social media users, these posts represent much more than just a harmless prank. One Facebook user posted her own reaction to the trend: “Dear social media, fake pregnancy announcements are not funny, they are not cute and it certainly is not a subject to joke about. Sincerely, every woman and man who lost a child and/or struggles with fertility.”
Source: www.fitpregnancy.com