A few months ago, I put a page up on Facebook for this web site. Since then, each day, I carefully select who I invite to friend the page and whose page I friend.
I continue to invite those who I think have a vested interest in learning about resources and support services for women and men going through breast cancer.
Yesterday morning when I went to Facebook, there were lewd photos of a woman on my site. The pictures claimed to be of me and sent by me. They had gone out to everyone on my friend’s list. The site also had responses from people who did not know me personally, but had accepted my invitation to friend the site. Unfortunately, they believed that the photos were from me. They were disgusted, offended and angry to receive such smut. I couldn’t blame them; I felt the same way.
I removed the photos, removed the person as a friend of the site and wrote a message on Facebook explaining that someone had lifted my information from my site and used it to add text to the photos. I hope my readers got the message before they decided to delete me and report me to Facebook.
The person who did this is listed in Facebook as a friend of a breast cancer survivor who accepted my friend invitation a few days ago. If this is so, I cannot imagine a friend of a survivor sending porn of a woman with exposed breasts. How could anyone be this inappropriate, insensitive and offensive knowing that these pictures would be viewed by many women who no longer have breasts?
I have met many wonderful women through the Facebook site. It is a good way to reach out to those who need help and those survivors who can help simply by sharing.I don’t intend to take down my Facebook site, nor do I intent to stop adding friends and being a friend to other sites.
I don’t know if what happened to me this AM can be prevented in the future. I do know that, going forward, I have to check my site several times a day to insure that I can take an immediate action if this kind of hacking happens again.