Online:
Visits:
Stories:

By Voice of Reason
Contributor profile | More stories

Story Views
Now:
Last Hour:
Last 24 Hours:
Total:

Facebook Rejects Makeup-Less Picture of Mother Who Has Skin Disease

Friday, August 21, 2015 14:11

% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.

(Before It's News)

This photo showing two separate women who suffer the same disease of scleroderma was twice rejected by Facebook which accused the photo of showing a misleading ‘before and after’ shot.

FOR MORE NEWS BY VOICE OF REASON CLICK HERE!

www.thelastgreatstand.com

This article speaks volumes to the type of Company Facebook has become. Clearly, they have NEVER even considered the old adage that the customer is always right, but then again, with a billion users, I guess they don’t care if they lose a few, as long as their “agenda” remains in tact. As long as I can remember, Facebook has been notoriously liberal, practically sleeping with President Obama, making it almost impossible for conservatives to grow a following. As a conservative myself, the lack of descent alternatives to Facebook is no doubt mind-numbing at times, but the two examples below go WAY beyond even the level of sleaze with which Facebook normally operates.

First, I’ll briefly tell you of my own experience. I am currently banned from Facebook Groups for another week or two. Why? Great question. I have no idea. I know the rules, and I followed them. I did however, lodge a complaint against another user that was repeatedly calling me an ethnic slur. I should probably mention that this individual was CLEARLY a flaming liberal in a group for conservatives, and she was RIPPING on my posts in addition to slinging ethnic slurs. A few hours after my complaint I got the following message back:

Infuriated, I responded by saying something like, “Just so I’m clear, being abusive and calling people ethnic slurs is no longer a violation of your community guidelines? So that means if I disagree with someone who might be a different color or ethnicity than me, I’m free to sling ethnic slurs at them? Do I understand that correctly, or is it only not a violation of community guidelines because I am a white, Christian, conservative male?”

AN HOUR LATER I WAS BANNED FROM GROUPS FOR A FEW WEEKS.

CLASSY RIGHT?

Next, this poor woman below’s story is appalling. Lisa Goodman-Helfand, seen pictured at the top and once below in the article, has been diagnosed with a terrible skin condition. As if the daily burden that she carries with her each day isn’t hard enough, Facebook refused to let her post a picture until she applied make-up to cover herself up. The following was the message they sent her:

“Your ad wasn’t approved because it includes ‘before and after’ images, or other images showing unexpected or unlikely results. It’s also recommended that you avoid focusing on specific body parts, because these images typically receive high negative feedback.”

A FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVE CANNOT ARRIVE FAST ENOUGH!

Facebook came under fire by many of its users after denying running an advertisement showing a woman’s make-up-less face who suffers from a rare skin disease as part of a campaign to raise awareness for the illness. 40-year-old Lisa Goodman-Helfand asked the social media giant to run a side-by-side photo of herself and blogger Chanel White, who also suffers from scleroderma but has no visible side-effects, to show how the disease affects different people.

NY Daily News Reports:

Mom with skin disease says Facebook denied her makeup-free photo in ad, said it may receive ‘high negative feedback’

Facebook didn’t like her face.

That much appeared to be true when an Illinois woman battling a rare skin disease says the social media giant twice refused her request to post an ad showing her face to raise awareness of her condition.

Instead Lisa Goodman-Helfand claims that the site called her makeup-free photo misleading and advised that it could receive “high negative feedback.”

The controversial ad for her blog at question shows the 40-year-old mother and 23-year-old fellow blogger Chanel White, side-by-side.

While White is seen smiling with clear, porcelain skin, Goodman-Helfand is seen red and blotchy.

Despite their stark differences, both suffer from scleroderma — a debilitating disease which hardens and tightens the skin and connective tissues.

For some, like Goodman-Helfand, it affects only the skin, but for others, like White, it can go deeper, harming and threatening the destruction of blood vessels, internal organs and the digestive tract.

“The purpose of the ad is to illustrate the different ways people are impacted by this rare disease,” she says she explained in a message to Facebook while contesting its refusal.

That message followed her allegedly receiving this from them:

Since the image was not a “before and after” photo, she contested its rejection. But despite her clarification — with a request that the moderator take a moment to actually read her article — it was again denied, for the exact same reason.

“It’s difficult to articulate how much courage I had to muster before hitting the ‘publish’ icon and send my naked face out for public viewing for the first time in my life,” she wrote of the low blow in a new blog post titled: “Facebook Doesn’t Like My Face.”

In a July 28 post to her hundreds of Facebook followers, she said she locked herself in her bathroom and “sobbed like a teenager.”

Meanwhile, word got out about her situation and came to the attention of a Yahoo! reporter who reached out to the social media site for comment. But before that reporter had a chance to file their report, Goodman-Helfand said she got a new message from the website.

They said that her ad had been mistakenly rejected and they apologized “for any inconvenience,” according to the message shared on her blog.

That joyful news, however, ended up being a short-lived success.

After attempting to purchase another ad for her article on Facebook, with the same image, she said she got a jaw-dropping message back.

For a second time, she said her ad was refused for the exact same reasons, which appeared to have been copied and pasted.

Again, it accused her ad of showing “before and after” shots.

Lisa Goodman-Helfand, seen here with her husband, said it took a lot of guts for her to publish a makeup-free photo of herself. When Facebook rejected it for an ad, she said she broke down and cried.

The resilient mom expressed her disbelief online but said she’s working to move past this hurdle while turning the “humiliating experience … into something positive.”

That something positive is the since growing number of visitors to her blog, a figure that she described as doubling in less than a week.

She’s also now working on publicizing her upcoming “Face Off For Scleroderma” event on Sunday in Highland Park, Ill.

The event invites those with scleroderma to gather together without makeup to support one another and help erase the fear of going bare.

A request for comment from Facebook was not immediately returned.

ON A MOBILE DEVICE? WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.

FOR MORE NEWS BY VOICE OF REASON CLICK HERE!

BE SURE TO GO MY PROFILE’S BELOW AT OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA:

FACEBOOK | TWITTER | PINTEREST | STUMBLE UPON | TUMBLER

THE VOICE OF REASON