Mission Facebook Moves Forward
The response to our campaign has been astounding. Many of you have pulled out your own capes and burst forward in all of your of boobalicious glory to assist in this fight by writing posts, posting buttons, and deactivating your Facebook accounts.
Update on Mission One: Facebook Sucks
We were pleased to speak with the Founder of cre8buzz (and father of two breastfed babies), a new social networking site that launches 10/7/07.
Here's what he said to Lactivista:
Per our conversation we will absolutely not remove pictures of women breast-feeding from our site and we welcome anyone who feels we are a better alternative to Myspace and Facebook.
Cre8Buzz is the place where people can be seen, heard and found and interact with communities of like-minded folks. We believe that each community has its topics, issues and means of expression that are unique. Therefore, we at cre8buzz accept all means of expression, including photos, as long as they meet reasonable standards of appropriateness for that community. For Moms, breastfeeding is part of motherhood like dirty diapers and sick kids. We have no issue with members of the Moms community expressing themselves with pictures of breastfeeding.
Use this link to join cre8buzz, or check out various other popular social networking sites that are specific to moms, including Maya's Mom, The Motherhood and Cafemom. (Please remember, LMJ does not receive any compensation to suggest Facebook alternatives).
We realize that many of you have successfully uploaded breastfeeding photos to Facebook without issue. It's certainly a step in the right direction if Facebook is refraining from deactivating the accounts of women who post breastfeeding photos. But there's still a ways to go: so long as Facebook maintains their policy position that breastfeeding photos violate their standards - while pro-anorexia material and pics of partially clad pop tarts do not - the battle remains unwon.
We've decided to ask Facebook for a statement regarding their policy. We hope that they will not continue to perpetuate the idea that breastfeeding photos are obscene, and that they will publicly state that breastfeeding photos are permissible in the Facebook community. Stay tuned!
We still need your help!
1. Continue to write posts, put up buttons, and let us know about your role in this fight!
2. Deactivate your account and tell them why!
3. Join our Cafemom Group. We'd love to hear your responses to some of the questions we've received from readers and bloggers about this issue. We'll pick guest Boob Squad members to post their responses here on this blog.
4. Let us know about future missions that you want The Boob Squad to tackle (we're not just about boob issues, but all injustices towards mothers).
And don't forget The Great Virtual Breast Fest on 10/10 at 10am. We're still accepting pictures and looking for participants who will nurse live or via recorded video.
No bf-ing pictures to upload just yet but I'm creating a cr8buzz account. Good job!
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