Some couples live their relationships on Facebook. Their tagged-love statuses, cuddling photos and professions of love signal bliss in their coupledom. However, it also invites Facebook friends to see some of their separations in real-time. The “so-and-so is now single” sends newsfeeds into frenzies of likes and “what happened” comments. Facebook stamps the date of…
Facebook is angering women’s rights advocates again. The social media titan has been removing mastectomy photos from two pages designed to celebrate and uplift women that have undergone the procedure. The SCAR Project is a photographic-essay depicting women between the ages of 18 and 35 that have survived breast cancer bouts. The poignant black-and-white photos…
We already live in a world where women are taught to shy away from being viewed as openly complicated, flawed or messy in any way. Spending your days pretending to be an idealized self doesn’t help things.
Women, Action & the Media (WAM), a feminist media group, wrote an open letter to Facebook demanding accountability for gender-based hate speech featured on the popular social network. Some of the Facebook pages promote domestic violence and rape including “Raping Your Girlfriend,” but haven’t been removed as photos of breastfeeding mothers were. WAM is requesting…
The madness doesn’t seem like it’s stopping. First, the Steubenville Rape and now three Chicago teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said. According to the Chicago Tribune: Scandale Fritz, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Justin Applewhite, 16, were all ordered held…
As the horrific events during the Boston Marathon unfolded yesterday–Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites were awash with news updates, condolences, expressions of shock and reassurances from Bostonians of their personal safety. But amidst all of that there were also people going about business as usual in their feeds. They posted about what they…
Facebook abuse is rampant! We all know at least one person whose status updates never cease to annoy orbewilder. Or how about that chick who is constantly inviting you to engage in a mafia war? And seriously, I am thisclose to defriending a friend from junior high who insists on tagging photos of me in braces. But Facebook abusers aren’t…
Are you willing to sacrifice your privacy for Facebook? Facebook has just announced that its developing a new app that will let your “friends” and even strangers know where you are at all times. The upcoming smartphone application is social network’s way of making money from its constantly growing list of mobile users. According the…
Imagine logging onto Facebook and seeing an offensive picture, likening a black child to a monkey, pass through your news feed. Several users had that experience this week when a Facebook page “Laughing so hard you feel a six pack coming on” posted the above photo. The image satirizes equality while feeding the age-old stereotype…
I first received news about the tragedy in Newtown through a CNN alert in my work inbox and then turned immediately to Twitter as the story unfolded. Weeks before that, on election night, I watched my Twitter feed more closely than MSNBC or C-SPAN. And earlier in 2012 still, I sat in a restaurant in…
