Facebook bans photos of breastfeeding moms
What does everyone think about this? We also find that this is just another reason for moms to be on Wee Web, where you can privately share these types of photos.
Tags: breastfeeding, facebook, weeweb
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Permalink Reply by Jenny on -
Are you SERIOUS? They've banned breastfeeding photos?!
There was a movement to get MySpace to allow them, and I think they do now. I know LiveJournal does now, after protest. Perhaps we should start a movement and all post photos nonstop. (You can tell I don't know how to start a movement.)
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Permalink Reply by Carolina Mama on -
Honestly, I think privately is the way to go. I breast fed our twin sons and I would not plant it on Facebook or Wee Wide or Web. :) Personal for sure. There are a lot of things we do personally that are not photo web appropriate. What is the point? You can make a support of breast feeding and not be posting photos etc. It is a personal decision, there's mine. :)
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Permalink Reply by Chrissy Jensen on -
I happen to support breast feeding in public 100% but also agree 100% modesty please. I didn't let me boob hang out for the world to see when I breast fed in public, I used a light weight small blanket...it's natural yes and we are all born natural (nude) but do we still walk around that way? No. Keep breast feeding pics private...although they do not offend me I want the choice to see it not have it shoved in my face. That's my opinion.
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Permalink Reply by Eleanor Diekert on -
I fully support breastfeeding, but don't think that's the issue here. On Facebook, your photos are private and not available all over the web. Unless it's the avatars that poeple are worried about, let whomever wants to post their breastfeeding photos on their own personal page go ahead and post them. I have received wall posts and applications on Facebook that are far more pornographic and obscene than a picture of a woman nursing a baby.
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Permalink Reply by Lindsey on -
Honestly? I think it's B.S. considering the other photos that are left to slide that are of *minors* in sexually suggestive clothes / poses / so on and so forth. Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing and no one is forcing anyone to look at these photos. More power to the mamas that are proud!
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Permalink Reply by Ruthie Appleby on -
The best answer I have to this is we had a beautiful africian american woman in our church who used to breast feed in the back of the church...it was no big deal to the women until a bunch of teen age boys were tee heeeing and we had a lady in our church who would breast feed in the nursery and there was a strange guy who would want to visit there. I used to be a church secretary. Women don't care but men well they put a paper bag on anyones head and can find some excitement there...not all men just some... So it really should be private to help the men out...they get excited by sight where women need the touch. Believe me after working in church work you hear it all- women would show me their "samples" their urine samples they turned pink if they were expecting, All kinds of stuff...I would just judge by the heart...most women are very innocent during this time so they need to be protected and their babies. I mean after 9 months of all the showing it just seems natural to some..but to others there are married couples that have never seen each other completely undone...so to be respectful to all we have to use wisdom.
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Permalink Reply by Judi on -
This is EXACTLY what I was gonna say, but you said it even better!!! Come on! There were pretty raunchy Miley Cyrus pics on Facebook and millions of others worse than that! I'm not saying I'd do it, but geez....people are so uptight about breastfeeding! It's natural and beautiful!
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Permalink Reply by Karen Weir on -
Breastfeeding is perfectly natural. So is child birth. So is urinating... do we need to post photos of these activities on the web, private or public? I am absolutely PRO breastfeeding, in public and agree that modesty should be practiced. I can tell you that as a mother of a 10 year old child, who was breastfed into his 2nd year, HE would be completely outraged if he came across a pic online (even in my private collection) of him at the breast. I think that as moms of infants, we can forget that the infant is going to grow up and will most likely have opinions on these matters! JMHO
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Permalink Reply by Christine on -
Even when pictures are private I still think that a certain amount of consideration really needs to go into what you share on the web because honestly these things are not as private as you think. People can hack into your account, your computer, your friends accounts, their computers and what if you or one of your friends leaves themselves logged in on a public computer (or even their own computer) and someone else comes up to that computer then they can view your pictures too. Some of the web browser also store your password which makes it easy for someone else to get into your accounts. I say this knowing that all of this is so much more common than most people even realize and even if we know this is a possibility we want to believe that we are immune to it, that we are safe. Please, please be careful about anything you wouldn't want the whole world to see or know, after all it is the WORLD WIDE Web and there is the potential that anyone in the World might see what you have posted on the internet. Actually there is also a possibility that anyone in the World might see anything you even type on your computer.
I am not trying to start trouble, drama or anything like that. I am not calling anyone stupid or anything like that. I am honestly just trying to make sure that everyone knows that these things do in fact happen. I am not just saying that, I did work at a University taking care of the computers for a department and it is really shocking how safe people really think they are when they are on their computer and on the Internet. I am really and truly just trying to educate others on the reality of computers and the Internet. Nothing on a computer is sacred or safe, everything can be seen by the right person (even things that are deleted are never really gone). Please, please be careful and mindful of what you share on the Internet. I really do hate to hear about people getting hacked and having their pictures stolen and things like that, I heard about more than enough of it in 2008 and would love to hear about less of it in 2009.
If you want to know more about helping to make yourself more secure online or anything computer related please do feel free to contact me. I truly do love to educate others so that they are practicing safer computing, besides it always helps to remind me to practice all those things that I preach. We all need a reminder every now and then.
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Permalink Reply by Meghan on -
I breastfeed both kids for the first years, and am very proud of that decision. But I don't know that I would ever post pics of me breast feeding them online. That being said, if someone feels the need to post pics like that on their profile they should be allowed to. It's there private that they're choosing to share with friends, let them. Maybe more moms should put it out there so that way it will be less of an issue to others. Get with the times facebook or suffer the wrath of Twittermoms.
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