Tag Archives: Facebook
Facebook removes rape “joke” pages
TweetWell, it’s about damn time. Violet Blue reports: It only took two long months, over 186,000 signatures on a petition to Mark Zuckerberg, and finally a furious Twitter campaign to get Facebook to remove Pages that graphically celebrated and encouraged rape and sexual violence. This time, anyway. Unfortunately this was not the first time Facebook [...]
Also tagged Activism, rape culture, Sexual Assault, Violence Against Women Comments closed
Facebook recognizes civil unions and domestic partnerships
TweetFacebook took a big step this week in their decision to allow people to identify as being “in a civil union” or “in a domestic partnership.” ZDNet offers their take in “The country of Facebook recognizes civil unions” as well as a note on the limitations of the new feature: Functionally the change is minor [...]
Also tagged marriage equality, Queer Issues, social media, ZDNet Comments closed
Facebook’s “stalker” application.
Tweet“Stalking” seems to have become the stand-in word for checking someone out on Facebook. I have been thinking a lot about how it says so much about how we feel about viewing other people’s information on Facebook. Information on Facebook is volunteered information and Facebook has several privacy settings (albeit hard to use sometimes), but [...]
Also tagged Harassment, social media, Stalking, Uncategorized Comments closed
Congrats to Gabi, MTV’s new Twitter Jockey!
Tweet You might have already heard, but MTV’s first Twitter Jockey is a young, fat and fabulous woman of color! Gabi Gregg, 23, was crowned by MTV on Sunday after a nationwide contest. In the Detroit’s native role as TJ, she will report on pop culture via MTV’s twitter account, blog, Facebook and the website. This [...]
Also tagged badass women, Blogs, Gabi Gregg, MTV, social media, Twitter, Uncategorized Comments closed
What’s the deal with Facebook’s new ‘Women Connect’ campaign?