Toddlers and preschoolers are like little drug sniffing dogs for all the shit you have in your house that you don’t want them to find.
Like tampons.
And Sharpies.
Last week Number 7 sniffed out a Sharpie.
And she did this to herself.
The combination of the connect-the-dots design she made, the mullet haircut Number 6 gave her a few months ago, the Pull-up, and the face she was making struck me as funny.
So I posted the picture on Facebook.
Because at one time or another, just about all of our kids have gotten their hands on a Sharpie and done some damage.
And you go through the phases of Sharpie.
Blame and accusation.
WHO LEFT THE SHARPIE OUT? WAS IT YOU???
Anger.
THAT STUFF IS PERMANENT! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO WASH OFF?
Amusement.
WAIT! DON’T WASH IT OFF YET! LET ME TAKE A PICTURE!
So anyway, lots of people related.
The day after I posted the picture, I tried, unsuccessfully, to log into Facebook.
I couldn’t.
I got a message.
I can’t remember exactly what it said, but it was something along the lines of,
We removed a picture on your Facebook page because it contained nudity. Please check all the pictures on your page. If you would like to unpublish your page while you do that you may do so.
What?
Are you kidding me?
I can’t put a picture of my two-year-old in a pull up on Facebook?
You can’t even see her nipples. She colored them in with Sharpie.
I checked the policy regarding photos.
Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and any explicitly sexual content where a minor is involved. We also impose limitations on the display of nudity. We aspire to respect people’s right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo’s David or family photos of a child breastfeeding.
Pornography?
Explicitly sexual content???
Facebook,
YOU SUCK.
Yesterday while scrolling through Facebook, I saw a post about bedazzling vaginas.
I saw a video of a person being shot by a cop.
I saw toilets clogged with shit.
I saw a page named called I fucking love science.
And I fucking love heavy metal.
And I fucking love history.
And bitches be like.
All that is okay.
But this isn’t.
What the hell does most of Europe do for the summer?
They must not be able to post any of their pictures.
HEY FACEBOOK.
YOU SUCK.
And whoever the person is who reported my picture as pornographic,
well,
YOU SUCK, TOO.
Asshole.
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Deanna says
FB has removed (and banned) many females for posting breastfeeding pictures (where no boobie is visible but it was obvious that it was a BF photo). I think someone has a dart board and that’s how they decide what is “pornographic” that day…….
NaturinoShopCanada says
OMG! Facebook is a joke! There are all kinds of obscene pictures they allow, same thing with Instagram.
Jaime says
That’s bullshit! Whoever reported the picture needs to look inside themselves.
Giveaways 4 Mom says
Facebook does suck. It seems like with them it is always a lose, lose situation. In fact, if I didn’t have to use it for work I would not use it at all.
Amanda Smith says
I have six kids, and I can say…Sharpies are like the forbidden fruit to any kid under five. They will sniff them out and abuse them if they exist anywhere in the house! The look on her face is priceless, btw 🙂
Irene C. says
If she had a bathing suit bottom would that have been ok?
Aaron Tate says
I totally agree, it’s the same way with Instagram too. Young adults can have videos that are basically soft porn but when I post things for my site that are all medical based stories or photos, there is bound to be someone who can’t handle seeing a preview photo of someone getting stitches, or an x-ray with a can in someones rear. Scroll down if you don’t want to see people, nobody is asking you go out of your way to interfere with something people are putting out there. Okay, I am stepping off my soapbox now. Thanks for the cup post too, I showed my wife, we both just laughed envisioning our son looking at us the same way if we handed him a cup too big.