Request for Facebook post for "Breast Cancer Prevention"

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SummerAngel
SummerAngel Member Posts: 1,006
edited September 2017 in Life After Breast Cancer

Looking for advice about this. I have a Facebook profile but I almost never post, nor do I even browse very often. I just received a request from an old friend, a very kind friend I haven't seen in years but I have plans to meet with in a couple of weeks, to "put a heart on your FB wall, without comment, only a heart, and then send this message to your women contacts. This is for women to remember it's the week of breast cancer prevention!"

What would you do? We all know that there are steps a person can take to lower their risk of breast cancer, but I feel like this request is an empty gesture, and may even give women (and men!) the false belief that if they just do/don't do certain behaviors that they can prevent breast cancer altogether.

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  • Luckynumber47
    Luckynumber47 Member Posts: 397
    edited September 2017

    I avoid anything on Facebook that requests me to share or pass it on. Usually it's just some weird junk someone else thinks is important, or spam.

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  • NineTwelve
    NineTwelve Member Posts: 569
    edited September 2017

    There's no way I would endorse such a thing as "Breast Cancer Prevention." It's too much like breast cancer awareness: meaningless.

    In your shoes, I would just ignore the message and if my friend later asked me about it I would just say I don't spend much time on FB, and then I'd probably change the subject.

    Or, I don't know. Maybe I'd post an anatomical heart, veins and all, and see what kind of response that gets me.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited September 2017

    Breast cancer prevention? Pray tell, what is that? Don't feel obligated to respond

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  • SummerAngel
    SummerAngel Member Posts: 1,006
    edited September 2017

    Thanks all. Exactly, what is breast cancer prevention? I am ignoring the message. My daughter said it looked like the type of forward she used to do, like spam. She was surprised a grown woman was forwarding useless things like that, though!

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