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Facebook follies

Breast cancer survivor wins battle with social-networking site to post images of her scar

by macleans.ca on Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:51am - 1 Comment

Sharon Adams wanted to give women a realistic portrayal of the effects of breast cancer surgery when she put photos of her mastectomy scar on Facebook. Instead the social-networking site removed the pictures within hours, claiming they were “sexual and abusive.” So the mother of four, who lives in Berkshire, England, fought back. More than 800 people joined an online group, Get Sharon Adams’ Pictures Back on Facebook, to pressure the social website. Finally Facebook backed down. But Adams is still steamed: “There is nothing sexual about them. Facebook has groups about sexual positions and some groups which are bordering on racist but they ban this. All I want to do is raise awareness of breast cancer.”

The Daily Mail

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Keanu

Who cares. Don’t be so overly sensitive. If you’re not a victim of breast cancer you’re a victim of not being selected. Everybody deals with this on a daily basis one form or another and they don’t cry about it. Facebook has already retracted, don’t go holding a grudge. You’ll die of depression before Cancer will hit you, is that how you want to go? Your eulogy was, “she was a nice lady but she could never forgive Facebook and soon after died from being treated unfairly by Facebook. Defeated by a virtual site of all things.”