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		<title>Don&#8217;t Breastfeed and Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know much about it yet, but I guess breastfeeding is <a href="http://www.fda.gov/Fdac/features/895_brstfeed.html">good</a> for your babies. So, breast milk and babies? A sensible combination.</p>
<p>But babies and <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">Facebook</a>? Not so much.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care how much Facebook is &#8220;expanding&#8221; its users. Facebook is really for college students and it should stay that way. Which is why I&#8217;m not too offended to find out that it has been <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/facebook-cracks.html">removing pictures</a> of females breastfeeding their kids.</p>
<p>The blog posted on USAToday &#8230;</p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=collegecandy.com&amp;blog=860993&amp;post=5236&amp;subd=collegecandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://collegecandy.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/breastfeeding.jpg?w=283&#038;h=425" alt="breastfeeding" align="right" height="425" width="283" />I don&#8217;t know much about it yet, but I guess breastfeeding is <a href="http://www.fda.gov/Fdac/features/895_brstfeed.html">good</a> for your babies. So, breast milk and babies? A sensible combination.</p>
<p>But babies and <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">Facebook</a>? Not so much.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care how much Facebook is &#8220;expanding&#8221; its users. Facebook is <em>really</em> for college students and it should stay that way. Which is why I&#8217;m not too offended to find out that it has been <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/facebook-cracks.html">removing pictures</a> of females breastfeeding their kids.</p>
<p>The blog posted on USAToday said, <em>&#8220;Karen Speed, a 33-year-old Canadian mother who describes herself as a &#8220;lactivist,&#8221; tells The (Toronto) Star that such photos led Facebook to delete her account and a support group she had established for breastfeeding mothers.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>First of all, what is Karen Speed, a 33-year-old Canadian mother/lactivist doing on Facebook in the first place? What is she possibly getting out of this? Finding out at which side of campus the next tailgate is gonna start? Checking up on her douchebag ex-boyfriend to see if he added any new skanks to his friend list?</p>
<p>Seriously, Karen. Seriously.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s great that mothers are reaching out to each other for support, but is it really necessary to post, what I think, are such personal and intimate photos on this particular site that is regularly monitored? <a href="http://bliss-breastfeeding.blogspot.com/2007/07/breastfeeding-picture-that-facebook.html">Here</a> is one of the pics that was removed from the site, and nipple or not &#8211; it may not be &#8220;obscene&#8221; as Facebook would say, but it&#8217;s still pretty needless on a college-based networking site.<span id="more-5236"></span></p>
<p>I guess what I&#8217;m trying to say is&#8230;send your friends a personal e-mail if you want to show yourself breastfeeding without mysteriously finding your account deleted. Facebook is run by an outside company and by things called &#8220;terms&#8221; and &#8220;conditions.&#8221; Of course this would fuel <a href="http://bliss-breastfeeding.blogspot.com/2007/07/breastfeeding-picture-that-facebook.html">controversy</a>.</p>
<p>In related content, one of the pro-breastfeeding Facebook Groups is called &#8220;Booby Babies and Their Mommies.&#8221; If the name alone isn&#8217;t convincing enough that Facebook should remain a site for <strong>college students</strong>, check out their alma mater, which is supposed to be sung to the tune of (lame) <a href="http://www.sunkissvillas.com/assets/wallpaper/BB/beauty_and_beast1024x768.jpg">Beauty and the Beast&#8217;s</a> &#8220;Be Our Guest&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>See our breasts, see our breasts</p>
<p>Everywhere, half-naked chests.</p>
<p>While we nurse, the prudish curse</p>
<p>And wish we&#8217;d button up our <strong><a href="http://www.embellishments.us/images/finished%20products/advantage%20denim%20vest.jpg">vests</a></strong>.</p>
<p>Sorry folks, look away,</p>
<p>If we&#8217;re too décolleté</p>
<p>But this IS what boobs are made for</p>
<p>Not those Wonderbras you paid for.</p>
<p>We refuse to go feed</p>
<p>Hunched in bathroom stalls, indeed</p>
<p>We&#8217;re appalled that you would make such rude requests!</p>
<p>Would you agree to eat</p>
<p>Upon a toilet seat?</p>
<p>See our breasts, see our breasts, free our breasts!</em></p></blockquote>
<p>No one on Facebook should regularly wear a vest, which is why, when it comes to Facebook, <a href="http://devel2.njit.edu/serendipity/uploads/facebookedshirt.jpg">this</a> is the only way moms should <em>ever</em> fit in.</p>
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