Facebook: When you care to show the very breast

13.01.2009
Yet another social media site has waded into the treacherous waters of deciding what is and isn't obscene and ended up with egg on its face -- or in this case, breast milk.

Last month Facebook decided that posting photos of babies sucking happily at their mothers' bosoms were naughty, not nice, and . Boy was that a mistake.

Angry moms immediately formed that now boasts nearly 160,000 members. Sharon Kennedy Wynne of Tampabay.com's writes:

The first five days of the year, the group was getting 10,000 new members a day. That's about the number of people who defiantly posted breastfeeding photos online that day. There was artwork of Mary nursing Jesus, of cows nursing their calves and lots of Mommas feeding their babies, Stephanie Knapp Muir, one of the organizers, told me. But she was peppered with complaints that many had their photos removed and a terse letter from Facebook warning them not to do it again or risk losing their membership to the site.

Other bloggers took up the call; Google "" and you'll get more than 2 million hits. Now the ticked-off moms are building that organizers say will ultimately feature 100,000 images.

Personally, I'd rather tussle with a grizzly or a great white than with an angry mother of a newborn. And yet Facebook refuses to back down.