Not funny at all. Now he is like the Boy Who Cried Wolf. No one is ever going to believe him when he posts some important news about whether he’s really going to be a father or if he has cancer. I just don’t get the point why he would post something like that.
Here are a few reasons why it could have been very upsetting to some people, especially family members and older folks. Lots of people in this day and age have fertility problems and are trying desperately to have a baby. When they found out this guy was just joking around it really hit home with them, and made their already difficult situation even worse. Any number of the women friends or relatives he knows could have had recently or way back in the past, had a miscarriage (or even two or three, as have some of my cousins). Some people, such as his parents or grandparents or siblings may have been hoping that he would finally be having a child (as they had hoped for him) and/or those same people may have been devastated to hear the “news” because they thought it wasn’t fair to bring a child into this world if your friend was un-married, or un-attached to the mother, or worse yet, didn’t even recall who the mother was, or that your friend was not in a mental or financial position to raise a child. A few people, like his own parents might have been worried that this poor child would have to be raised by them whether they wanted that situation or not. Some of his friends (male or female) might have been upset that your friend didn’t trust them enough to let them know ahead of time that he was in a relationship with someone, and then felt betrayed to find out that they had been lied to or duped. If anyone in his workplace read the “news” and then found out later that it wasn’t true, they might have thought that their co-worker was un-trustworthy.