Unbaby.me, in use on Facebook.
Babies, be gone.
Facebook users tired of seeing pictures of their friends' little ones on their Newsfeeds can actually banish the pictures all together thanks to a new plug-in, Unbaby.me.
Unbaby.me scans your Newsfeed for keywords like "so cute," "cutest baby ever," or "newborn" and swaps the baby photos with images of puppies, manatees or even Justin Bieber.
The plug-in is automatically configured to replace the offending photos with cats, but users can customize the extension to their liking, with the option of adding more specific keywords.
Once a pic is swapped, the status reads "baby removed."
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Three friends, Yvonne Cheng, Chris Baker and Pete Marquis, are the brains behind the photo-replacing extension.
"We were having drinks one night after work and were joking around about how Facebook is just lousy with babies, and wouldn't it be funny if you could replace all those photos with cats," Cheng told the Los Angeles Times.
The trio, all of whom work at the advertising agency BBDO in New York, are in their late 20s and early 30s and noticed that their Facebook feeds were suddenly all dominated by their friends' new additions.
"Personally, I don't hate babies. I love babies. But I do get tired of looking at babies," Cheng said. "I think we just addressed the fact that people use social networks for different reasons, and I guess because of the age we are, the majority of people we knew were just using to post pictures of their babies."
The plug-in, which received over 2,000 likes on Facebook in the 30 minutes after it launched last week, is available on the Chrome web store, Mashable reported.
But it doesn't completely eradicate all infant snapshots.
Baby photos with no captions are immune to the scanning software.
Baker told ABC News that they've made the source code public so others can have a shot at blocking out any other Facebook annoyances.
"Motivational quotes," Baker told ABC News. "That's another annoying one on Facebook, maybe one guy can take that and do something about it."
