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Still?

Have people started moving to something else?

I saw a commercial for Myspace. I kind of laughed.

My 14 year old uses Facebook and has 100+ "friends" among his high school contemporaries. It seems to be doing well enough.

Or just nonsequiturs in general.

I once had an ant farm. Those bastards didn't grow ****.

You're agreeing to be exposed to whatever content she puts on there, yes, but only content that is allowed by Facebook. As it turns out, Facebook does not allow pictures of dead babies.

Bottom line is: It's not okay to expose others to this kind of content without their consent. It's not okay according to Facebook, who owns the site, and it's not okay according to mental health professionals. She could have easily gotten the consent of the viewers by hiding the pictures behind a link with a warning attached to it.

I understand that there are mitigating circumstances on her behalf, but I can't agree with this kind of violation of the rules. The rules are there for a reason, as heartless as it may sound, because we want to avoid people from being traumatized. It feels redundant, but I'll say it again: I feel for her, I really do. I hope she finds a way to overcome her grief and that she's blessed with many more children in the future. I just don't agree with her decision to handle her grief by exposing all her friends on Facebook to dramatic images of her miscarried baby. She risks doing more harm than good.

That being said, I wouldn't want Facebook to suspend her account or anything. The harm has already been done, and it would again do more harm than good to block her from her social network.

Edit: And I think I'm done with this subject. I've made my opinion clear, as have you (you being everyone who disagreed), and it's clear that none of us are going to change our opinions on the matter, so further discussion would only lead to frustration and whatnot. I wish I'd had an ant farm when I was a kid. Or a king size bed. Sadly, I had neither.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2014 11:16pm by Mazra

You forgot the follow-up:


(bolding mine)

There's no violation of the rules so nothing you need to "agree to".

I assume some offended person reported the photo and some Facebook photo judge-drone removed it because they felt as you do, regardless of policy.

It's worth mentioning that I do not have a problem with pictures of deceased people, as long as the pictures are not distasteful. The pictures of the other baby were pretty good, considering. You can't really tell he's dead, unless you look really close.

Since I don't have access to the pictures mentioned in the OP, I went by Tirith's description. "Ashen skin" and "black lips" is not what I'd consider a tasteful photo of a deceased baby. I've seen ashen skin and black lips before, and I would not want to couple that imagery to a small baby.

Kavekk, you still with us, or did you figure out how to not click on threads you don't care about?

Edited, Jan 5th 2014 11:54pm by Mazra

It's not that he cares about what we think, or anything, i-i-idiot.

Something about being bad.