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Some can鈥檛 get enough of the photos of their friends鈥� cuddly bundles of joy. Others have had too much.

A New York trio said a constant flood of baby pictures streaming through their Facebook feeds prompted the creation Unbaby.me, a Google Chrome browser application that swaps baby pictures on the social media site into random shots of cats, flowers and even bacon.

鈥淵ou end up lamenting the fact that it has devolved to just a near-constant stream of baby pictures,鈥� Unbaby.me co-creator Chris Baker told CTV Edmonton.

He said the idea of Unbaby.me was conceived over drinks when Baker and his two friends realized they were suffering from baby-picture fatigue.

鈥淚f all three of us were experiencing this, then it鈥檚 probably true for a whole lot more people,鈥� said Baker.

The application looks for key words in Facebook photo posts, such as 鈥減recious鈥� and 鈥渟o adorable鈥� and then replaces the image. The program鈥檚 default setting pulls cat photos from Instagram to substitute the baby picture, but users can also tailor their image choices.

Since the Google Chrome extension launched on Wednesday, it has received 38,000 Facebook 鈥淟ikes.鈥�

While the baby photo-swapper has quickly garnered fans, it has also left some proud moms offended.

鈥淚 post a lot of pictures of my own kids and I mostly do that for family members who are on Facebook,鈥� said Tracey Lagerquist. 鈥淏eing a mother you鈥檙e obviously proud of your children. I guess you make an assumption鈥�that your friends would be interested in seeing the pictures of your babies.鈥�

However, Lagerquist said Facebook users always have the option of simply ignoring the baby pictures.

Added Aarthi Turcotte, 鈥淐hanging a baby picture into an animal or a tree or a landscape picture, I鈥檓 sorry I think my kid is cuter than a landscape picture.鈥�

An Edmonton-based social media consultant said the popularity of Unbaby.me should have Facebook users mulling over their own social media etiquette.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 know if it鈥檚 necessarily stating that we all hate babies, because I don鈥檛 think that鈥檚 the case. But I think that some people can overdo it,鈥� said Walter Schwabe. 鈥淚f you鈥檙e doing anything that maybe is unbalanced, take a look at that.鈥�

With a report from CTV Edmonton鈥檚 Sonia Sunger