Unbaby.me is a Chrome plug-in that replaces baby photos on your Facebook news feed with pictures of cats, puppies or other things of your choice. Above, a screen shot of its website. (Unbaby.me / ) 
 
 Tired of looking at baby pictures on Facebook? Now you can fight back. A new service called Unbaby.me is designed to automatically replace all the baby photos on your Facebook feed with pictures of something more palatable -- like cats, or manatees, or album covers. 
 
 Unbaby.me launched Wednesday, and its website has already received 41,000 Facebook likes. That's a lot of people who were really sick of seeing babies on Facebook. 
 
 The photo-replacing plug-in is the brainchild of three New Yorkers -- Yvonne Cheng, Chris Baker and Pete Marquis -- who work together at the advertising agency BBDO. They are, unsurprisingly, in their late 20s and early 30s. 
 
 "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 said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. 
 
 The friends, who all work in interactive advertising, contacted a developer to help them make their joke a reality. Cheng said it took about one month from the initial conversation to the launch of Unbaby.me. 
 
 The plug-in can be downloaded from the Chrome Web store. It's easy to install -- and, if you feel guilty, to uninstall. 
 
 Once it is running, it will scan your Facebook feed for key words such as "cute," "adorable" and "first birthday" -- trigger words that indicate a baby photo may be attached. You can also add your own key words. Then it replaces the offending baby photo with a different photo from an RSS feed of pictures. The current default feed is cat photos. 
 
 Pictures of babies that have no captions will not be replaced, though, so if you are looking for a complete baby-photo-eradicating solution, this may not be it. 
 
 A quick scan of my own Facebook news feed revealed two baby pictures posted in just the last two hours, both with no text in the subject line at all. 
 
 Cheng insists that not wanting to see pictures of babies on Facebook does not correlate to not liking babies at all. 
 
 "Personally, I don't hate babies. I love babies. But I do get tired of looking at babies," she 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." 
 
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 What could be better than seeing all of your friends’ pictures of their babies when you log in to Facebook? 
 
 Will Oremus Will Oremus is Slate’s senior technology writer. Email him at will.oremus@slate.com or follow him on Twitter. 
 
 If you answered, “not seeing all of your friends’ pictures of their babies when you log in to Facebook,” you’re in luck. New York-based writer Chris Baker and two friends have come up with Unbaby.me, an extension for Google’s Chrome browser that zaps those irksome infants from your newsfeed before you even see them—and replaces them with cats. 
 
 
 
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 Given that my own newsfeed is actually more cluttered with cats than babies as it is, I wasn't instantly sold on the concept. Fortunately, it turns out that cats aren’t the only option. You can customize the extension to turn the babies into pugs, bacon—anything you please, really, provided you can find an image-based RSS feed for it. 
 
 
 
 The extension’s baby detector isn’t foolproof. It works by searching for keywords in photo captions, so it misses uncaptioned babies, or those whose captions don’t include terms such as “so adorable,” “eating solid foods,” or “bundle of joy.” But the keywords are easily changed. So if you don’t mind babies in general but want to be spared from seeing particular friends’ babies, you can enter their names instead. 
 
 In fact—and this is the most underrated and revolutionary aspect of the tool—you can set it up to block pictures of pretty much anything you don’t want to see in your newsfeed. I have nothing against the occasional feline or toddler, but when I’m desk-bound on a sunny August day, the last thing I want to see are my friends’ sunset-streaked snapshots of the damn Chichen Itza. So I tried replacing the baby-related keywords with terms like “vacation,” “beach,” “sights,” “island,” and, for good measure, “fun.” Then I changed the tag for the RSS feed from “cats” to “cubicles.” 
 
 Zap! All of my friends’ summers are now as boring as mine. 
 
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– A trio of ad agency employees fed up with looking at their friends' baby photos on Facebook have hit on a way to replace the images with pictures of cats, bacon, or whatever the user would rather see. Unbaby.me, a plugin for the Chrome browser that launched last week, scans Facebook feeds for signs of baby photos—those signs being words like "cute" and "adorable"—then replaces the photo with one from an RSS feed of photos, reports the Los Angeles Times. The current default is cats. Its creators are all in their late 20s or early 30s. "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," one of them says. The trio have released the source code so other can create blockers for Facebook annoyances like motivational quotes. But with some tweaks, Unbaby.me can already be used to block other kinds of pictures people don't want to see in their newsfeeds, notes Will Oremus at Slate. Desk-bound workers can block friends' beach photos—or cat photos could be swapped for images of ... babies.