Women of Facebook Unite

Recently women with Facebook accounts united in an effort to raise awareness of breast cancer. This was a collaborative effort with millions of women receiving and forwarding messages to other women on their friends lists. What did those messages say, you ask? Well, although there were different wordings for many of the messages, the main message stayed the same. Here is just one message that floated around the Facebook world last week:

..."Only Girls...Some fun is going on.... just write the color of your bra in your status. Just the color, nothing else. And send this on to ONLY girls no men .... It will be neat to see if this will spread the wings of cancer awareness, as is intended. It will be fun to see how long it takes before the men will wonder why all the girls have a color in their status... Haha"

Another quoted "Hello!

We are doing a play ... a bit silly perhaps, but fun:) Enter the color of your bra in your status .. Just the color and nothing else! Send this on to all girls / women .. NO MEN! Should be fun to see how it spreads ... and all men will wonder why all the girls have a color in their status? Haha! Have fun!"

These messages again were to raise awareness of breast cancer and to implore women to schedule and have their routine mammograms done. Now, the humorous side of all this is that during that time, about two to three days, men all over the world thought that their women had completely lost their minds! All over FB, women were quoting in their status bars about the colors of their bras. Some women posted pink, black, beige, white and even polka dots. Many went so far as to say "none". Men were wondering just what the heck all these women were posting about. If you are a member of FB, and particularly if you participated in this hilarious posting game, you have probably been asked more than once by a male what you were talking about, right?

On the more serious side, the email campaign, rumored to have been started by a young man in the memory of his aunt who lost her fight to breast cancer, did impact millions of women from around the world. In fact, it even made Fox News on Friday January 8^th. And, a spokeswoman for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation stated that her group was not behind the email campaign, but it did raise a lot of awareness. She also went on to state that she hopes women will take heed and schedule their routine mammograms soon.

So, if you are a man and recently wondered why the women in your Facebook life were posting Cheetah printed, navy blue, hot pink or other colors, now you know. If you are a woman who participated in this mass email and posting campaign, congratulations, you should be very proud of yourself. Not only did you help the world to become more aware of the dangers of skipping yearly mammograms, not to mention the tragic reality of breast cancer. You also helped to drive the men in your lives more than just a little crazy with those colorful posts.