Facebook and Breastfeeding
Recently some of my wife’s photos of her breastfeeding my daughter were removed from Facebook because they were considered “obscene.” At first, I was so angry, I removed all my photos, information, groups, and applications from my Facebook account and considered leaving all together. Many of my friends urged me to stay and to let Facebook know how I felt first. So here it goes…
Breast Feeding Letter to Facebook
Also, here’s some media coverage of the situation:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/facebook-cracks.html
http://www.thestar.com/article/255628
Get Real Facebook!
January 8th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
That is so ridiculous! There are so many pics of slutty, half-dressed girls on Facebook, and they want to pick on women feeding their babies… It really pisses me off, too. I’m a big breastfeeding advocate and a Lamaze teacher… so wrong!