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Facebook: When you care enough to show the very breast
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| January 09, 2009
| Robert X. Cringely
Posted on 01/12/2009 10:50:14 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative
What did these protesting moms do before facebook came along? Did they take pictures of themselves breastfeeding and staple copies to all the telephone poles in town?
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:06:08 AM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: LuigiBasco
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:06:37 AM PST
by
sit-rep
To: Andonius_99
What would possess any woman to have someone take pictures of her breast feeding AND then want them posted on the net? I don’t have any problems with breast feeding BUT facebook owns the servers, so therefore, if you want to use their servers to post your pics they better be compliant with the user agreement.
To: Scythian
Whats the big whoop, to me this is silly, breastfeeding is a natural, nonsexual part of life.
______
I dare you, start a thread on public breastfeeding and then stand back.
It may be natural and nonsexual (to most normal, thinking human beings), but a thread on public breastfeeding is akin to the old crevo debates. More ire per word than about any other topic.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:13:14 AM PST
by
dmz
To: Paleo Conservative
I read this article as I like to keep abreast of things. I am not a boob. Indeed, I am the milk of human kindness. I’m going to stop now as I may be busted by the moderator.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:19:36 AM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Scythian
I will tell you this. Facebook has nuts that no other site has.
They tossed Jihadis when YouTube won’t.
And it’s Facebook’s place to make the call. Today it’s a woman breastfeeding, tomorrow it’s a woman holding a baby with her boobs hanging out with a caption “About to breastfeed”
All in all, just like FR, it’s their playground. If you want breastfeeding photos, get a Photobucket.
I love Facebook for standing firm on this.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:25:32 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: MississippiMan
>>no bare breasts seems like a pretty intelligent place to start.<<
Exactly.
Kudos to Facebook!
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:26:23 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:27:34 AM PST
by
Overseez
(Chile recovered from the folly of the Marxist Allende, we will recover from Marxist Obamunism.)
To: Paleo Conservative
understan = understand
(pizza crust stuck under the d again.)
:)
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:28:20 AM PST
by
Overseez
(Chile recovered from the folly of the Marxist Allende, we will recover from Marxist Obamunism.)
To: yazdankurd
>>the moms should boycott facebook (tit for tat)<<
Yup.
I like my Facebook and don’t care at all if they leave.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:28:50 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: Overseez
I can not understand that either. I have seen some guy’s photo when it was very, very clear, he should have had a bra on! Like T. Kennedy.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:33:13 AM PST
by
MamaB
(Heb.13:2)
To: netmilsmom
What I want to know is why do people go searching for those? I belong to Facebook and have never seen anything naughty because I just do not look for it. If people do not want to see it, then why search for it.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:35:20 AM PST
by
MamaB
(Heb.13:2)
To: netmilsmom
What I want to know is why do people go searching for those? I belong to Facebook and have never seen anything naughty because I just do not look for it. If people do not want to see it, then why search for it.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:35:32 AM PST
by
MamaB
(Heb.13:2)
To: okkev68
They can start their own site BreastBook or something.Oh hell.
Now I can't stand up.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:38:18 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Illegal Zombies: Just Eating the Brains that Ordinary Americans Won't Eat)
To: Paleo Conservative
It's just horrible - I'm a D-Cup feeder in an A-Cup world
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:41:27 AM PST
by
IrishPennant
(Patriotism is strongest when accompanied by bad politics, loyal FRiends and great whiskey)
To: Paleo Conservative
If Facebook had simply asked the moms to mark these pictures as private, or limit access to adult family members, this whole controversy could have been nippled in the bud.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:44:00 AM PST
by
NonLinear
(McCain failed to raise the money to project the message he did not have.)
To: Paleo Conservative
I remember a little thing that was in Reader’s Digest when I was a kid, probably around 1955. A medical student was asked on a test to name five ways a mother’s breast milk was superior to other forms of nutrition. He was at a loss for a number five and wrote in “packaging more attractive.” He was given credit for a correct answer.
Isn’t it funny how things stick with you for 50 years? And not just things about breasts! I remember several of the articles from RD in those days.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:48:43 AM PST
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
To: IrishPennant
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:50:45 AM PST
by
MaxMax
(I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
To: Cyclone59
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:51:17 AM PST
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: Paleo Conservative
Of course the story is not accurate. What Facebook banned, and it’s been the rule for a while, was any picture that shows the areola in any way regardless of what verb is going on in the picture. A few of these nursing pictures that showed areola and got rid of them. Then a bunch of people decided FB was banning pictures of women nursing and blew the whole thing out of proportion. Nursing pictures aren’t banned, areola pictures are, if your nursing picture shows areola it’s forbidden, if your picture of some verb other than nursing shows areola it’s forbidden, if your nursing picture doesn’t show areola it’s not forbidden.
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posted on
01/12/2009 11:51:57 AM PST
by
dilvish
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