This week, people were outraged when it emerged that Facebook had removed images of a woman breastfeeding her premature baby.
Facebook had deemed the photo to be ‘offensive’ as it contained nudity, however, after facing backlash from the public, they decided to revise that statement.
Facebook said breastfeeding photos have never been against the firm’s Community Standards, but nipples had to be covered or concealed. It said the picture had been removed in error and had since been reinstated.
Image via Twitter.com
In a message to Miss Bond, Facebook said: “The image that you shared was removed in error – it has now been republished.
“The policy has been updated, Facebook modified the way it reviews reports of nudity to better examine the context of the photo or image.
“As a result of this, photos that show a nursing mothers’ other breast will be allowed even if it is full exposed, as will mastectomy photos showing a fully exposed other breast.”
No doubt about it, the photo is absolutely beautiful, but is the photo not something that should be kept personal, something for the proud parents to look at, rather than the whole of social media?
The problem isn’t with social media itself, it is the way people are abusing it. Absolutely everything that goes on in our lives, or our children’s lives, is posted online, and it seems that nothing is private anymore.
Not a lot of people want to see this woman’s nipple, and in some ways, Facebook were right for banning the photo, not because it was ‘offensive’, but because this precious moment between a mother and child should have not been shared on the impersonal, public site that is Facebook-and that’s the same for a lot of photos of our children, not just the breastfeeding ones.
Parents these days are only short of putting images of their children’s poo on Facebook. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for uploading cute pictures of my child for my relatives abroad to see, but I will never post intrusive photos online.
Parents should realise that their children don’t have a say in what photos of them are posted online, and if they did, would they want them uploaded for everyone to see??
Certain photos, ie bath time and breast feeding pictures, should be kept for the family to look at. Why would anyone feel the need to share something so beautiful and intimate with their school friend that they haven’t spoken to in 6 years and only have them as a friend so they can look at whats going on in their lives.
We all use social media, but we need to learn to be a little more private, nothing is sacred on a site where no matter what your privacy settings are, they are ways and means to obtain photos from someone’s personal page.
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