Posting Photos of Your Engagement Ring to Facebook is Annoying
It was 1:30am last week and my best friend (who shall remain anonymous) Facebook chatted me with:
“I’m really over seeing everyone posting their new engagement ring for the holiday season and sporting heinous hands, nails and shirt sleeves…don’t post till your hand isn’t like frikin Sasquatch, k thanks.”
She has a great point. Over the past few days and weeks, my Facebook feed has been bombarded with images of gnarly hands bedecked with engagement rings that run the gamut from stunning to fugly. And with New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day in the near future, the whole parade of what her and I have dubbed “holiday hands” isn’t going to stop anytime soon.
Ladies, it’s fantabulous that you’ve found someone who you want to spend the rest of your life with (er, or you just want to plan a wedding or wear some sparkly bling). If you are my friend in REAL LIFE (not Facebook life), I will like your relationship status when it changes to ENGAGED. But the whole heinous hand pics being broadcasted has got to stop.
For starters—it’s kind of unnerving and scary to see someone’s big, fat hand appear when I open Facebook. I feel like I’m a surgeon looking at a severed hand with some Pretty Princess-esque sparkle slapped on it. It’s like some kind of freaky deaky morgue going on. Or, perhaps I’m Dr. Frankenstein critiquing a hand that would just look so nice sewn onto my latest monster.
The important point here—whether your nails are perfectly manicured or not—is that YOUR HAND DID NOT GET ENGAGED. You did. It’s show-offy and stupid to just post a zoomed-in ring/hand. Show a picture of yourself and your fiancé, preferably where you’re smiling (well, at least I HOPE you’re happy!) and the ring is visible. Take pics of you (now wearing the ring), him and the spot he proposed. Cut it out with the creepy pictures of just your hand.
Send the close-up photos privately to friends and fam who have inquired what the bauble looks like. These people are less likely to judge your sausage fingers or critique your blotchy spray-tanned-orange digits. ‘Cause that does happen.
-Cait Rohan
GIRL TALK TIME: What do you think of posting engagement ring photos to Facebook? Are you engaged? How did you share the news with friends/fam and your social networks?












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Well I’m sure I’m going to post a pic of my ring on my hand (and whatever other way I chose to show it off) with my Facebook family when my bf and I get engaged. If they don’t want to see it then then can remove me from their friends list. I’m not the kind of person beat a dead horse, and I really don’t go on Facebook that much- but if I want to share something very important with my family and friends who live in other states then that’s what I’m going to do. And 99% of the time when you tell someone your engaged the initial reaction is: “Congratulations! Let me see the ring”. Those who may find this “distasteful” probably aren’t on my friends list anyway so I’m not worried about it.
MEOW ladies, MEOW
How else are you going to gossip about someone behind their back if they don’t post those pictures? Kidding. I don’t mind the pictures, especially since the first thing you say when someone gets engaged is “Let me see the ring”!
I was thinking the same thing. People will always look at your hands when you say you’re newly engaged or married.
You are entitled to your opinion. Regardless of how many times you say its distasteful to post pics of ring on FB , it doesn’t make it right. You did write an article about it so stop explaining it to people in their comments. It is your opinion and good for you.
Now I am entitled to my opinion, I find your article distasteful and I am considering dropping Shecky’s from my frequently visited website.
wow, you must have a very sad little life to sit there and begrudge someone showing something they are very happy and proud about.
get over yourself. the picture will be in your field of vision for what, a day? less if you hide it.
not saying its something id do myself, but if a friend posted a pic, id be happy for them, not rude and insensitive
The only problem I have is when people don’t know how to zoom on their cameras and ended up taking blurry pictures of their ring. UGHHH, LEARN HOW TO TAKE PICTURES, haha!!
I posted mines because people wanted to see it. I wasn’t going to do it at first because it seems like a I’m exploiting my good news. But when people asked to see it I posted a pic, just one. nothing wrong with it.
Every women deserves to be happy, if showing off your ring is one of them then I have no problem. But if she obsesses over and tries to show it to people over and over, then she may have a problem… that is when people get annoyed and tired of listening and try to avoid it…so ladies try to keep it at minimum…its not the ring we care about, its your happiness…
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Please don’t judge people and the pictures they post you have no idea why or who they are posting them for…I have no problem with seeing the ring on the hand and Happy pictures of the couple…My son is a Marine and at this time stationed In Cali.. His gf made it out there for the Marine Ball this year and he had a whole thing planned out to propose… I seen pictures of the ring in its box b4 via text But wanted to see pics of the ring on her finger.And of anything leading up to it that he could post!!!..My husband was away constanlty for 2 1/2 years with the military and my mother lived in Florida. The only way they felt connected was via FB photos..So we shared everything…If you don’t want to see it you can hide the post..
It’s not something that I would do myself just because I am a bit more personal than that. But I’ve had friends who did it. I was upset that my fiance at the time took a cellphone picture and was sending it to everyone right before he proposed to me. I guess its because he was excited. **shrugs**
All of you bring out some great points. My daughter was born 10 weeks early and I never got around to having my wedding (which turned out for the best). And yes, I am guilty of posting an ultrasound pic but it was only one and ironically is still the splitting image of my daughter. I see nothing wrong with it.
Nothing wrong with it.. You are sharing a milestone in your life that you are extremely happy about…Congrats on your baby girl!!!
agree, though I’m happy for all my friends that are new to the i do, I think showing the ring off is distasteful
I never posted my “hand” pictures when my husband and I got engaged. Instead I took pictures of us together. There were some pictures where the ring was the “highlight” but mainly it was to show off how much of a happy, loving couple we are and how excited we were to start our life together. We’ve been married 2 1/2 amazing years, still have yet to take a hand picture(if anyone asked to see my ring, I took a picture of JUST the ring). Now it seems like everyone is getting engaged, especially young couples, although, I can’t say anything on that as I got married right out of high school.
The engagement ring is on the wrong hand in the photo. Someone dropped the ball here!
Actually, many people wear the engagement ring on the right hand until marriage, then switch to wearing the pair of rings on the left hand. Traditions vary, but this was the one we stuck to since my mother did.
Seem’s like the person is just uptight because they didn’t get a RING ON IT…LOL
YUP!!
BTW, what was the bride-to-be who’s been planning this perfect fairytale all her life then has technology bring her the gift of sharing to beloved five-hundred friends and family to…..
ANYWAY. Did you expect her to hire a professional hand model?
Oh, gee, I thought that this would be an entertaining and tasteful article about the woes of being vain in public. But seriously criticizing someone’s hand condition?! You congratulate and move on. Hopefully, a wedding will still ensue even though the groom might be embarrassed about his fiancee’s “hand issues”…
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I think it ok, if you’re happy and want to share it with the entire world, just as long as ur manicure is done and your hand isn’t ashy.
I loved this article. I became engaged in October and shared the news with friends and family via phone. Many asked if I was going to update my status or post a picture. I am a private person and did not find the need to do so. I also didn’t want to hear opinions about my ring. I have since seen 2 friends on my list share pictures and part of me felt like was I supposed to do that.
I agree with Jennifer M about overspending on rings and weddings. We selected a simple but elegant ring and plan to go to city hall.
Its not required but friends and family show interest by asking about the proposal and about the ring..Pictures are always a nice added touch for those that can’t see you right away.