Forum: 'Facebook nudity policy draws moms' ire'

Mon, 01/12/2009 3:59 PM  |  Reader's Forum

Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace have made the decision to restrict photos of nursing babies.

The dispute reveals how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of members.

Your comments:

Facebook is a public thing that can be used positively or negatively for making human relationships. When we use it for positive purposes, it can have good results.

When we use it for negative purposes, we get bad results. So, it depends on us whether is it good or not for ourselves. If you don*t like making relationships through Facebook then you can avoid it. That makes the solution easy!

KETTI

 

Honestly, is this really an issue at all? With all the troubles in the world, fighting for your right to post a breast-feeding photo shouldn't even be on your list.

Focus your energies on something productive for the world. To all those that say it*s about the principle of it all, pick the hill you want to die on.

PAULY PAUL

 

We are talking about women breast-feeding. She is proud to do it and to have a baby. That's what I see. This country now seems to believe that everything is pornography. In my eyes, all those people who are offended are sick because they connect something natural to pornography.

MICK

 

Get over it! We are mammals, class mammalia. The very descriptor relates to the fact that we, or half of us anyway, possess mammary glands.

It is how we feed, or should feed, our babies. Nursing creates an important and strong emotional bond between mother and baby, it also provides the very best nourishment and immunity possible for the baby.

This event should be celebrated as an indication that we have a healthy, normal, happy society. Sickos who think that this is an immoral act should go buy some bisphenol laden polycarbonate plastic baby bottles, fill them with industrial corn syrup, sugar, soy protein cornstarch carrageenan, safflower oil etc. (formula) find a dark place alone and suck it up!

T. ATKINS

 

Anyone who thinks there*s something dirty about it is not evolved. Oh well, you can go ahead and feed your babies tainted formula or formula lacking proper nutrition.

TIM WRIGHT

 

Guess what. Bottle feeding is different than breast-feeding, because bottle feeding doesn*t involve exposing parts of the female body that are considered to be private and indecent to openly display.

Yes, breast-feeding is more natural than bottle feeding. Please stop this nonsense.

If you feel like someone needs to see pictures of you breast-feeding your kid, show them some. Don*t broadcast on the Internet for unsuspecting people to see.

CHRISTOPHER D.

 

Facebook is a public site but with many privacy options! This means only friends on a persons list can view photos; why does someone who wants to look at nude pictures go to a social networking site?

How stupid can some people be? Go to Google, type what ever nude picture you want and you'll get it in seconds!

And if certain people are uncomfortable with the pictures they see on a persons page just delete yourself from that page!

DESH

 

If Facebook wants to restrict content, that is totally their right. If you absolutely have to show the world that you breast-feed your baby, I guess you'll have to go elsewhere.

CAROL

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