Gruesome photos on facebook

[DogCalledRudis]

Me and my friends follow the events in Palestine, and there is a lot of scary stuff you won't see on mass media. But some of them friends are taking things bit too far i'd say... Sharing photos of dead bodies with skulls crushed, etc.
On one hand i understand that world needs to know, on the other... I'm freaked out to look at my home page. I'm already having nightmares.

cant these be reported?

Probably can... Didn't try

Report.

This sort of thing puts me off Facebook. Nasty website.

Some of these photos had my husband in tears (ones with children dying/hideous injuries in their parents arms).

I generally think it is unnecessary. But then I was reading the Israel thread in active convos and some of the comments made me so angry and I wanted to post those pictures. So I don't know anymore.

There have been pictures that have changed public opinion and dramatically changed the course of history.

YANBU. I reported some photos of murdered children to Facebook but apparently they are not offensive (their words). I didn't find the images offensive, just pretty tragic and unnecessary. At least a warning about graphic images might've been nice.

Count yourself lucky that you can easily hide these 'gruesome' pictures but for many they are living this nightmare.

There was a film of people being shot in the head, mass execution type thing (one comment was Muslims killing Muslims but tbh I have no idea who they were or what religion) posted by a friend of dh. We reported it and was received a reply saying it didn't break the guidelines.

I have mixed feelings. Things need to be reported and shared, but things are tragic enough without splashed innards on people's home pages. Ain't doing nobody any good.

Mixed feelings too. People want and need the truth (the truth they are living through) to be told.
That said, I ppersonally wouldn't want it popping up on Facebook, as I'd find it so difficult to deal with. I want to prepare myself, and have the choice before viewing such images. Yes, I regard that choice as an extremely fortunate privilege.

coffee
Horrific things go on all over the world all of the time. Children are abused and trafficked, people are enslaved in many demeaning ways, people face life changing injuries through torture just for their often quite moderate views. Are you seriously expecting that people should just view and feel relieved?!?!? Imagine if the full extent of this suffering was beamed directly to your ''newsfeed". Would you really think it was ?
Ta MrsW!

it is heartbreaking looking at those harrowing images. There is another thread on here and some israeli supporters are so unmoved by these atrocities that I was wondering whether to attach some images so that they might wake up to why the world is upset!

At the same time, i am having a very hard time dealing with some of these images myself and am not sure I want to keep seeing them either - but I certainly dont want the genocide sanitised either - because that us not the reality. I just dont want the world to forget this genocide and its impact on a nation.

CoffeeTea103 I would agree with you, but people share the images and then consider their job done. It's not really accomplishing anything any more than slowing down to gawk at a car accident on the side of the road.

I also think there is the issue of those victim's dignity. If something horrific happened to a member of our own family we'd never want their injuries splashed all over the world's media, whatever the cause. But you don't get photos of white privileged dead/dying people - think of the outcry over pictures of WTC falling man where the victim was identifiable for example.

I think it's about time people see the reality of what is happening.
Some of the images have been taking and distributed by the relatives of the dead because they want to world to see whay they are going through.

Reality is. But close-ups of disemboweled corpses are not helping...

I'm glad someone has started this thread because I thought it was only me who was bothered by these images!

I have a lot of Muslim FB friends and they keep sharing the most gruesome images from Gaza including one of a charred baby - it's upsetting and unnecessary in my view as we can all guess what bombs do to people; we don't have to see it as well.

Personally I think it's disrespectful to the dead to show them like that.

The other thing I think is that by continuously seeing these kind of images they gradually lose their shock value and people start to 'get used' to seeing gruesome pics.

If I am really honest though I've always been a supporter of Israel and it upsets me to have to question that support and I feel angry that they are doing these bombings.

However; when there have been terrorist attacks in Israel they Never show pictures of dead Israelis - if they did it would make people support them too.

I feel the same. One friend of mine has gone overnight from posting pictures of her Pfb to posting photos of dismembered and burnt babies in Palestine. I support what she's doing but have to scroll down quickly to avoid the pictures. I am grateful for most of her less gruesome posts as it has enlightened me about the background of the whole issue (possibly with a Palestinian bias though!!)

Sorry guys, as I've not read the full thread yet, but this is what really pisses me off about Facebook, they ban photo's of breastfeeding women, yet obviously deem these death photos more appropriate and acceptable?

As always, there is a very simple way to avoid being offended by Facebook.
Many of us choose it.

But FB is the only way I can keep in touch with certain friends and relatives. It is supposed to be for that but has turned into something political at times - I started a thread a while ago about friends and relatives sharing 'Britain First's' posts which was upsetting too.