Facebook may be off limits to the under 13’s but there are now no such restrictions for the unborn with the social media platform allowing parents-to-be to register their unborn children as family members.

Proud parents can add a due date and even name the child in what is being seen as an attempt to stop doting mothers and fathers from creating profile pages for their young children.

Explaining the move a facebook spokesman said: “We develop new features, in part, by seeing how people use the service. For years, people have been using Facebook to share the joyous news of expecting a child and, a few months ago, we began testing a feature designed to make that process easier.”
 

However Gwenn O’Keeffe, author of the book CyberSafe, warned via The Telegraph: “People need to take a deep breath and live life with a certain amount of privacy and dignity. What if things don’t go right? You don’t want to answer questions from all your Facebook friends.”