to repost my friends Facebook status on AIBU?

[NorksBoobsTitsKnockersBreasts]

She said I could

"Apparently I'm supposed to post a sexually tinted description of where I keep my handbag as my status. Allegedly this will help raise awareness of breast cancer.

Information about how and when to examine ones breasts would obviously be of no use whatsoever. Neither would be mentioning the significance of breastfeeding in reducing ones risk of developing breast cancer.

OK"

Now, I don't know this 'friend' well (I've not seen her for years) but I like her a whole lot more than I already did after this.

Just a bit of fun. Might raise some awareness.

YABU

The message I got sent from a friend said this:

One of my friends has suggested that women should do something special on facebook in order to increase awareness of October Breast Cancer Awareness month. It's so easy to do, that I'd love you to join in to make this a memorable online event.

Last year, the idea was to post the colour of the bra you were wearing on facebook...and it left men wondering for days, why women were posting colours, seemingly at random.
This year's game has to do with your handbag/purse, where we put our handbag the moment we get home; for example "I like it on the couch", "I like it on the kitchen counter", "I like it on the dresser". Well u get the idea. Just put your answer as your status (i.e. don't respond to this message, but put it on your status) - and cut n paste this message and forward to all your FB female friends to their inbox.
The bra game made it to the news. Let's get the purse in as well and see how powerful women really are!!! REMEMBER - DO NOT PUT YOUR ANSWER AS A REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE- PUT IT IN YOUR STATUS!!!

X posted with loads of you

This explains a lot of bizarre FB statuses (stati?) I've seen today. But given that I had no clue WTF they were on about and there was nothing to indicate anything about breast cancer, it all seems a bit shite. It didn't raise my awareness - I just thought my friends had lost the plot.

You know what I find most crappy about this?

it's the bit which says:

"and cut n paste this message and forward to all your FB female friends to their inbox."

why would any sane person do that? It's a frigging chain letter and I have now had it sent to my in-box 7 times!

tethersend likes it on top of her copy of The Female Eunuch. Hard.

It's like Carry on Cancer.

Unless there are any scientific breakthroughs in the use of innuendo as a cure which I'm unaware of?

Thats just it- its a chain letter!
Whoever came up with it has no interest in raising awareness. Like all other originators of crappy chain letters they just want their crappy status update to get reposted as many times as possible. Cos they're a bit sad like that.
Linking it to some good cause or other is just another way to achieve that.

NorksBoobs I really like your friend's alternative status and I speak as someone who has breast cancer. I thought the bra thing was fun and quite harmless, but this is just a bit ... I don't know, obvious and knowing perhaps. Not in a sexual way, rather the whole media tartiness of it.

Mind you, I've been accused of having no sense of humour about BC marketing before. But that's true, I don't ...

I can laugh about my cancer with the best of them and particularly love my best friend calling it Munchhausens but most of the marketing initiatives make me shudder. Feel free to tell me that because its so successful I need to just get over myself ... I know that's the majority view and I don't get tetchy

Tethersend I might nick that too if you don't mind.

It's true that I'm talking about it now, but only because Nork's friend refused to do what she was supposed to. All my Facebook friends were posting a status as they were supposed to and thinking they were raising awareness but weren't.

It all seems ridiculously coy in this day and age, is anyone actually entertained by any of the resulting statuses? Am so tempted to put 'I like it up the bum'...

exactly bran

I ignored that. It's just not going to raise money for breast cancer..

Bunch of joyless fuckers aren't you? So you don't like it. Ignore it then. What the fuck does it matter what anyone else does?

Its Breast Cancer awareness month. And lookie here we have another thread about this FB nonsense, all these women talking about breast cancer. And the papers and tv and radio talking about this and talking about breast cancer. And putting a thought into countless peoples minds about breast cancer, which is precisely the point of the whole fucking thing.

I assumed reading these that people were putting something that they thought would be funny as their post rather than an accurate description of where their handbag was going to be for any burglars on the lookout!

Is it just a coincidence that the only person i know that did this is a bit of a twat and quite regularly puts sad and meaningless things on facebook - i therefore read it and just thought what a dick !

at least this explains one of her loony goings on !

what discount said...

eh? bit of a rant there winter..?

The whole point is to raise money I would have thought. I wonder how many women up put 'in the cupboard under the stairs' in their FB status actually checked their breasts.

Maybe its all a ploy by some burglars to find out where you keep your handbag!

Bunch of joyless fuckers aren't you?

You can add my name to the 'joyless fucker list'

But then My aunt did die last week of breast cancer at the age 44.

I don't have an facebook account because of shit like this.As tether said earlier this 'carry on cancer' is vile.

Do me a favour,donate to breast cancer research or to Macmillan