Would You Let the Facebook Community Pick Your Baby’s Name?
- Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:09pm by
Liz Klimas
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Less than a week ago a baby girl was born to the Meske family in Crystal Lake, Ill. This new addition‘s name wasn’t chosen by parents Lindsey and Dave though — at least not completely. More than 4,000 people helped make this momentous decision.
Lindsey Meske with her two daughters. The newest bundle was born Jan. 31. (Photo: Facebook)
According to the Chicago Tribune, there was a bit of friendly, inner familial dispute on what to name the child, so the Meske’s posed the question with four potential names to the entire Facebook community: McKenna, Addilyne, Madelyn and Emily. Madelyn won with 1,310 of the more than 4,200 votes on the “Name My Child” poll. Emily was the second choice with 1,265 votes.
(Image: Facebook)
Madelyn Rae Meske (Photo: Facebook)
Watch the local news report on the unconventional naming method:
The Tribune reports Dave saying he’s pleased with the choice Facebook helped make. When asked if the family would use Facebook again in the naming process, Dave said they already have a boy’s name ready — Cooper — and would consider Facebook should they have trouble picking a girl’s name again in the future.
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thekuligs
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:44pmWell at least it was a poll and not random post # is the winner! As for me, not a chance. My husband and I have named all of our children with out feeling the need to consult solcial media about it. Also, maybe you should tell the grandparents to back off, they aren’t raising your kids… unless they are, but that sounds like a personal problem to me.
Report Post »arfarb55
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:15pmWOULD YOU LET THE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY PICK YOUR BABY’S NAME? Nope!
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:45pmLooking at that face, I can see she needed someone to tell her what to name it.
Report Post »Pretty sad commentary for a country when its people no longer have face to face encounters.
JethroUSMC
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:41pmFacebook….social media… what a sad state of affairs.
People speak about their right to privacy, yet they freely give the information away – in public.
Folks whether it’s texting on your cellphone, or anything on the internet, imagine that data in a database somewhere. If you’re relatively tech saavy, take that thought of relational databases to the end of what your mind can comprehend now multiply the possibilities by 1000 and you’ve begun to scratch the surface on what can be done with this information.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:55amWell Happy Day for little Madelyn!
Report Post »I read things like this and realize that President Dunham has a vast number of Americans who actually may vote for him in November of 2012. UGH!
DD313
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:05amAs long as it isn’t Barack.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:21pmUh, No! I don’t now, never have, and will never use FB. Lame.
Report Post »neidermeyer
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:45pmWhen this was reported in the Chicago Tribune did they call it a “name my uterine contents” poll? or a “name my clump of cells” poll? … if they called it a baby name poll somebody is going to lose their job.
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:21pmThat would be a lot funnier if it weren’t so true!!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:40pmI would have gone with McKenna. If you give the names and they vote and I wasn’t 60, yep I’d let them pick. Its not like I am giving the ability to write a name.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:03pmNooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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