Recently, Facebook has come up with new plans to eliminate the amount of hateful remarks on Facebook, especially regarding sexism. They targeted pages that made light of rape, domestic violence and sexual degradation of women. Facebook has said that there has been much more hate speech on their social media site than they can imagine. Now its time for them to start cracking down on the sources of these hatefully remarks. Facebook has asked "Women Action & the Media" to be a part of an ongoing conversation about improving the social network. It has become so easy for Facebook users to announce whatever they want, without any regulation.This has caused a rise in cyber bullying and suicide rates because nobody is stopping users from saying whatever they want to say. I feel that it is neccessary to step in and start heavily monitering statuses of users. Author Soraya Chemaly said: "It is because Facebook has committed to having policies to address these issues that we felt it was necessary to take these actions and press for that commitment to fully recognize how the real world safety gap experienced by women globally is dynamically related to our online lives". It is important that we as Facebook users start eliminating the amount of hurtful language that we post. Not only is it inappropriote in the first place, but it also leads to serious cases of depression for many innocent kids. http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/tech/social-media/facebook-hate-speech-women/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
