Why a Facebook Baby Shower Might Not Be The Best Way To Go

Facebook seems like an easy-to-use platform everyone is familiar with, so should you have your baby shower on Facebook? Many people wonder about this when preparing to host a virtual baby shower.

Since Facebook offers a live video chat option and most people are familiar with this social media platform, using this for your party can seem like a no-brainer. But even with a virtual event, choosing where to host your party is probably the most important choice. 

It’s a good idea to look at all the positives and negatives of Facebook before doing a virtual party and check out what other virtual baby shower platforms have to offer.

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Why Should You Re-consider Hosting a Facebook Baby Shower

While Facebook does rank high in terms of simplicity, it’s not an ideal solution. Some guests may not use Facebook and could feel left out. It’s also essential to consider baby shower etiquette to avoid being tacky with a social media baby shower. While it has some good points, here are some things that a Facebook virtual baby shower lacks.

All Guests May Not Use or Be Active on Facebook

Not everyone has a Facebook account, making attending the event challenging for some of your guests. You may also invite people who aren’t active on Facebook, even if they have an account. So they may not be familiar with how to use Facebook. In both of these situations, these guests will miss out on updates and may struggle with the technology side of the party.

It Might Be Considered Tacky 

Some people love Facebook, others don’t, and there are mixed opinions about whether or not hosting an event on Facebook is tacky. 

One argument is that since it’s just your family and friends, it couldn’t possibly be tacky to host this way.

On the other hand, announcing your baby shower on Facebook means it will be visible to everyone you’re friends with, not just those you’ve invited. This can be awkward and make a private event more public than you want.

To avoid this, you can create a Facebook group just for your guests and then host a Facebook live during the virtual baby shower. But there are other things to consider, too, like whether you should share your baby registry on Facebook and how to share pregnancy updates.

Your Baby Shower Invitation May Not Be Seen

There’s the possibility that some people you want to invite may miss the baby shower invitation. You also can’t always tell if people have seen your invite, making it challenging to know whether or not to remind them about it. While you can send out event reminders instead of RSVPs, you’ll lose the ability to track the invites, which is usually better for organization purposes.

Privacy Concerns with Facebook

A baby shower is an intimate affair between the mother-to-be and her close friends and family to celebrate her unborn child. While some people might crash a birthday party or, even a wedding, you’d be hard-pressed to find people who would turn up uninvited to a baby shower.

But if your shower is hosted with Facebook, people might not feel bad about peeking in on your party festivities. Unfortunately, Facebook, which has a checkered past with privacy breaches among its users, leaves ample room for unwanted users to access your private virtual baby shower celebration.

To start, the settings are complicated at best. If you’re just a casual Facebook user, you might not know the difference between sharing something with your close friends and making it publicly available to every Facebook user on and off of your friends’ list.

Just think: do you really want to your fairweather friend from High School, who was never happy for you, secretly viewing one of the happiest days of your life? Also, what about the frenemy who you’ve wanted to unfriend for five years, but haven’t built up the courage to?

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Ex-coworkers? Bosses? What about ex romantic partners! (Talk about awkward!) Not the best of situations and we want to help you avoid these!

If you mess up the settings, your baby shower will be free for all–those who deserve to attend and those that don’t. So make sure that your knowledge of how to control who sees your content on Facebook is up to snuff! This way you can include who you want at your party and keep out the people you want to exclude.

None of these worries come into play when using WebBabyShower. At WebBabyShower you only invite the people YOU want to invite and they can only access it with the specific link to your website whenever they like. If you want extra security on top of that you can also set up a password that has to be entered prior to accessing your virtual baby shower

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Facebook Baby Shower Guide

Where does one even begin with planning a Facebook baby shower? It’s simple. Focus on two main components: traditional logistics and Facebook logistics – or modern logistics, if you will.

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Traditional Logistics

Like any traditional baby shower, you first need to determine a date and time (or range of dates and times) that you’d like to host your Facebook baby shower. Then, compile a list of invitees, confirm all the mommy-to-be’s registry information, and finalize the run of show for the shower.

Facebook Tech Logistics

Now it’s time for the fun stuff. Here are the key questions to ask yourself before going “live” with your Facebook baby shower.

Facebook Access: Do all of your guests have Facebook? If yes, make sure you are friends with all of them so you can easily invite them to your event. If not everyone on your list has Facebook, ask them to sign up or see if another guest can invite them to share their screen (literally) during the shower.

Shower Style: How do you want to “host” the shower? Do you want to make it a “live” shower where all guests are logged on and interacting at the same time? Or, do you prefer to have a multi-day shower where guests can drop in and leave comments at their leisure? If you’re set on a “live” shower, make sure your guests know the date and time so they can set aside the time.

Invitations: Say “sayonara” to the stress of choosing, addressing, stamping, and mailing traditional baby shower invitations! For a Facebook baby shower, a simple Facebook message and invitation to the event itself will suffice.

Be sure to send a “save the date” message if you’re looking to host a “live” shower at a specific date and time. Or you can set up the event on Facebook and send those invitations well in advance so, your guests can plan ahead, according to baby shower etiquette.

Read: Facebook Baby Shower – Invitation Description Ideas

Facebook Messenger: Speaking of Facebook Messenger, does everyone have access to it? Make sure your guests either have the Facebook Messenger app on their smartphone or know how to access it via a web browser. If you’re hosting a live shower, you’ll likely want to use Messenger’s Video Chat capabilities.

Facebook 101: That brings us to potentially the single most important question of all: Are your Facebook Messenger video chat skills up to snuff? As the host, you should know the ins and outs of video chat so that you can be a resource to other guests and ensure the shower runs smoothly. Click here for a simple, step-by-step guide to starting a video chat on Facebook.

Also a critical responsibility of the host is knowing how to set the video chat to “private.” You wouldn’t want to end up accidentally oversharing this intimate event with the entire Facebook world (2.7 billion active users to be exact) like this dad did? We didn’t think so. Learn how to set your event to private here. Of course – if you use WebBabyShower instead – all videos are private and secure by default.

It’s also good to know that after your video chat is complete, it will be shared to your event’s page so that friends who were unable to attend can watch. Be sure to let guests who are unable to join the shower know this beforehand. You can also remove the video at any point. Learn more about how Facebook videos work here.

Don’t get Googled

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A Facebook Baby Shower seems simple enough, right?

But wait. Are you absolutely positive your settings are fully set to “private?” And what about Great Grandma Margaret who barely knows how to browse the internet, much less join (and interact at) a custom Facebook event?

That’s where WebBabyShower comes in! Our service offers the ease and convenience of a Facebook Baby Shower, but with more features to put your online shower over the top.

WebBabyShower guarantees your baby shower will be easy, private, and, most of all, fun! From interactive timelines to private video and photo galleries, a WebBabyShower will make you wonder why anyone wouldn’t host their next shower online!

The team also offers tech-assistance for those less-than-tech-savvy but oh-so-adorable older relatives who wouldn’t miss such a special occasion for the world. Check out all of what WebBabyShower can do for you here.

How To Create A Facebook Event

To create a private Facebook event on your computer:

1. From your News Feed, click Eventsin the left menu.

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2. Click + Create Event on the left side.

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3. Click Create Private Event. Only invited guests will see your event. Once you’ve created a private event, you won’t be able to change it to public later.

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4. Fill in the event name, location, date, time and description.

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5. Click You’ll be taken to your event where you can invite guests, upload photos, add a cover photo or video, share posts and edit event details.

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To create a public Facebook event on your computer:

1. From your News Feed, click Eventsin the left menu.

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2. Click + Create Event on the left side.

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3. Click Create Public Event. Anyone will be able to see your event and search for it, even if you aren’t friends. Once you’ve created a public event, you won’t be able to change it to private later.

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4. Fill in the event name, location, date, time and description.

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5. Type and select keywords about your public event so it can be better recommended to people who are interested in that topic (example: Food festival).

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6. Choose who can edit and post in your event and then click You’ll be taken to your event where you can invite guests, upload photos, add a cover photo or video, share posts and edit event details.

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Alex Loredo is a freelance writer and blogger. She utilizes her knowledge of event planning and organization to create content that motivates and inspires. When she isn’t writing, she can be found reading, baking, or on a never-ending quest for the world’s best cup of coffee.

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