Ability to display your relationship status on son Profile is one of the oldest features of Facebook, making the Facebook couple’s relationship official” or official on Facebook, which for some people even became a milestone. But, apparently, since its inception, this Facebook feature has discriminated against polygamists. Indeed, if this possible for a monogamous person to indicate their online relationship status social by identifying a partner, a polygamous person will not be able to do so by identifying their partners.
For the NGO OPEN statement ” union free is not enough
And in the US, the NGO for Polyamory and Ethical Nonmonogamy (OPEN) or the Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Nonmonogamy is officially asking Facebook to fix this. It published a letter addressed to Facebook application manager Tom Alison. In this email, OPEN explains that the design of Facebook’s “relationships” feature prevents many users from having the relationships that matter most to them. For NGOs, non-monogamous people are “arbitrarily prohibited from expressing the full range of their relationships on the Facebook app. “Given the increasing prevalence of ethical non-monogamy, we believe that limiting users to only one relationship status on their profile is arbitrary, exclusive, and against Meta’s core values. At best, this restriction perpetuates the erasure and marginalization of non-monogamous relationships; at worst, it harms non-monogamous users by perpetuating social stigma regarding the legitimacy and authenticity of their relationship.on also in this letter published by OPEN. Facebook is definitely losing momentum (a few months ago, the network social there was a drop in the number of users, which led to a drop in shares). But, according to NGOs, 4 to 5% of respondents practice ethical non-monogamy. population American. And one in five adults has practiced consensual non-monogamy at some point in their lives. The NGO OPEN also mentions a study showing that 43% of those who practice ethical non-monogamy face discrimination. And the same study suggests that stigma can be reduced by recognizing people’s choices. “All users of the Facebook app should have the right to list all of their romantic and intimate partners without restriction. Therefore, we are asking Meta to take the next step to facilitate inclusive connection to the Facebook app by lifting the restriction on “relationship status” in profiles,” the NGO concludes. Meta has already responded to this letter. — quotes the New York Times representative of the network. social indicated that the group is looking into this, while recalling that on Facebook, users already have the ability to indicate that they are in union free. OPEN requires users to be able to mention people they have relationships with on their profiles.
