Stop Myspace and other sites from displaying ads for dieting.
Target:
Anyone who finds these ads offensive.
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i find these ads offensive, because i run a site on myspace to help people with Eating Disorders and other things, i write blogs and post videos on this myspace. the people on this site are sometimes very fragile and even SEEING anything with a woman who they deem "skinnier" than they are will make them sink deeper into their dissorder. i find these offensive because people will and have gone to extremes to lose weight. and these ads, most of the time push them over the edge. or to try weight loss pills and end up OD'ing on them. or being admitted to the hospital, and i dont want to see them anymore.
i find these ads offensive, because i run a site on myspace to help people with Eating Disorders and other things, i write blogs and post videos on this myspace. the people on this site are sometimes very fragile and even SEEING anything with a woman who they deem "skinnier" than they are will make them sink deeper into their dissorder. i find these offensive because people will and have gone to extremes to lose weight. and these ads, most of the time push them over the edge. or to try weight loss pills and end up OD'ing on them. or being admitted to the hospital, and i dont want to see them anymore.
We the undersigned would like to adress issues that we have been having with the ad's promoted on myspace.com, the dieting ads are very offensive to a lot of people and we would like them to be removed from the site. they can trigger people with eating disorders to become even worse than they were to begin with. We see these ads all over the place and we find them sickening. It makes us feel as if we are not good enough unless we are taking the product its advertising or unless we are as skinny as the women in these ad's. So only imagine how people with Eating disorders must feel when they see these types of ad's.
Please find a way to lessen these offensive ads on myspace.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Please find a way to lessen these offensive ads on myspace.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
We signed the "Stop Myspace and other sites from displaying ads for dieting." petition!
# 139:
9:00 pm PDT, May 3,
Name not displayed, Canada
these's ads are disgusting.
these's ads are disgusting.
# 138:
10:40 am PDT, May 2,
Doha Elleithy, Qatar
# 137:
7:49 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 136:
11:01 pm PDT, Mar 19,
Natalie B, Hawaii
# 135:
1:41 pm PDT, Mar 11,
Amanda McClarren, Michigan
These ads are sick. I am 24 years old and a six 6 and everytime I sign on to my myspace it says something like: "24 and overweight?" How sickening to be bombarded with that everyday? Does Myspace think I am fat or something?
These ads are sick. I am 24 years old and a six 6 and everytime I sign on to my myspace it says something like: "24 and overweight?" How sickening to be bombarded with that everyday? Does Myspace think I am fat or something?
# 134:
7:56 am PST, Mar 6,
Sandy Conway, Canada
I believe, this is one of the ways that people become underweight. We must stop seeing people in advertisements who are underweight, so we can stop thinking it's a healthy ("normal") weight.
I believe, this is one of the ways that people become underweight. We must stop seeing people in advertisements who are underweight, so we can stop thinking it's a healthy ("normal") weight.
# 133:
9:21 am PST, Feb 11,
Regina Fried, Georgia
Myspace needs to do something about all the disgusting "lose weight" ads that are plastered all over Myspace. They are just making everyone angry, fat or skinny. First of all, they are gross and disgusting looking, and second no one wants to be reminded of their fat every time they check Myspace. EVERYONE is getting really annoyed. I just hope everyone complains about it so they will get the point and do something about it. I would think that they would have the decency to put more tasteful ads on here, especially with so many teenagers and people with eating disorders are using Myspace. It seems like 9 out of 10 of the ads on myspace have to do with weight gain or weight issues. It just increases the amount of people switching over to Facebook, which many people have been doing for a while.
Myspace needs to do something about all the disgusting "lose weight" ads that are plastered all over Myspace. They are just making everyone angry, fat or skinny. First of all, they are gross and disgusting looking, and second no one wants to be reminded of their fat every time they check Myspace. EVERYONE is getting really annoyed. I just hope everyone complains about it so they will get the point and do something about it. I would think that they would have the decency to put more tasteful ads on here, especially with so many teenagers and people with eating disorders are using Myspace. It seems like 9 out of 10 of the ads on myspace have to do with weight gain or weight issues. It just increases the amount of people switching over to Facebook, which many people have been doing for a while.
# 132:
12:14 pm PST, Jan 25,
Aoife O Mahony, Ireland
# 131:
6:08 pm PST, Jan 23,
Mieke Bernaards, Belgium
# 130:
7:39 am PST, Jan 23,
Name not displayed, Michigan
myspace is a large site, so to say that the diety ads are harmless, its quite the opposite! EVERYONE, every type of person, is looking at those! A LARGE percentage is bound to follow through with them. Its shameful against those who let ads like that on the site!
myspace is a large site, so to say that the diety ads are harmless, its quite the opposite! EVERYONE, every type of person, is looking at those! A LARGE percentage is bound to follow through with them. Its shameful against those who let ads like that on the site!
# 129:
6:53 pm PST, Jan 7,
Morgan Bales, Virginia
# 128:
4:24 am PST, Jan 6,
Elise J, Australia
# 127:
7:29 pm PST, Jan 1,
Judy Long, North Carolina
Who needs it~
Who needs it~
# 126:
7:03 pm PST, Jan 1,
Name not displayed, North Carolina
Lisa Kay
Lisa Kay
# 125:
3:58 pm PST, Dec 31,
Name not displayed, Missouri
These ads that all of you woman hate have made me and people like me THOUSANDS of dollars. If you dont like the ads then you should get off of myspace or not be fat. If you are so fat and hate your self esteem then maybe you should try the diet products and make more people like myself LOTS more money!
These ads that all of you woman hate have made me and people like me THOUSANDS of dollars. If you dont like the ads then you should get off of myspace or not be fat. If you are so fat and hate your self esteem then maybe you should try the diet products and make more people like myself LOTS more money!
# 124:
8:48 am PST, Dec 30,
Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 122:
8:59 am PST, Dec 26,
Renee Jackson, South Carolina
# 121:
6:05 pm PST, Dec 24,
Lilly Adams, Tennessee
its true, i suffer from bulimia AND anorexia, & seeing these ads always make me feel guilty if i ate, & remind me to purge if i did.
its true, i suffer from bulimia AND anorexia, & seeing these ads always make me feel guilty if i ate, & remind me to purge if i did.
# 120:
5:57 pm PST, Dec 24,
Anthony Gibson, Tennessee
# 119:
5:05 pm PST, Dec 24,
Name not displayed, Tennessee
# 118:
2:13 pm PST, Dec 21,
Anna Bartels, Ohio
I agree with you entirely. It's extremely annoying and also extremely unrealistic. Everytime I sign on to myspace I have to see a photoshopped side view of a person...which is underweight...not healthy weight. I know that these ads are crap but a young girl, say 13-17, may not know this. It only fuels eating disorders and the messed up body image that we have in this culture.
I agree with you entirely. It's extremely annoying and also extremely unrealistic. Everytime I sign on to myspace I have to see a photoshopped side view of a person...which is underweight...not healthy weight. I know that these ads are crap but a young girl, say 13-17, may not know this. It only fuels eating disorders and the messed up body image that we have in this culture.
# 117:
7:02 pm PST, Dec 18,
Name not displayed, Washington
These ads are distasteful and terrible for a woman's self esteem! If there is a woman that needed help with dieting, she would not need to go to myspace to find answers! It's ridiculous!
These ads are distasteful and terrible for a woman's self esteem! If there is a woman that needed help with dieting, she would not need to go to myspace to find answers! It's ridiculous!
# 116:
11:59 am PST, Dec 17,
Name not displayed, Arizona
I am a 22 year old woman currently in the stages of recovery. These ads are in fact triggering, ridiculous and false advertising. It is very offensive when the population of "unhealthy", impressionable people on myspace is growing by the day. These ads are targeting the vulnerability of people WITH & WITHOUT eating disorders and and is just plain wrong. Im sure the multi-million dollar corporation "Myspace" can seek funding elsewhere....maybe FOX CEO Ruperts salary???? This has got to stop!
I am a 22 year old woman currently in the stages of recovery. These ads are in fact triggering, ridiculous and false advertising. It is very offensive when the population of "unhealthy", impressionable people on myspace is growing by the day. These ads are targeting the vulnerability of people WITH & WITHOUT eating disorders and and is just plain wrong. Im sure the multi-million dollar corporation "Myspace" can seek funding elsewhere....maybe FOX CEO Ruperts salary???? This has got to stop!
# 115:
6:58 am PST, Dec 17,
Anna Vallery, United States Minor Outlying Islands
This is such an important petition, it is hard enough having the temptation to look these ads up on my own, but now i don't even have to evil is staring me right in the face! Stay strong! we all need eachothers support!
This is such an important petition, it is hard enough having the temptation to look these ads up on my own, but now i don't even have to evil is staring me right in the face! Stay strong! we all need eachothers support!
# 114:
3:14 am PST, Dec 17,
Filomena Pereira, United Kingdom
# 113:
10:13 am PST, Dec 16,
Name not displayed, Mississippi
# 112:
4:52 pm PST, Dec 14,
Chelsea Ward, West Virginia
These ads are MORE than offensive. I am a recovered anorexic. When I was sick, the mere suggestion of a weight loss program "triggered" me, and the pictures of such dramatic (although Photoshopped) weight loss did so even more. I'm tired of a world that seems to promote eating disorders. Get rid of the ads.
These ads are MORE than offensive. I am a recovered anorexic. When I was sick, the mere suggestion of a weight loss program "triggered" me, and the pictures of such dramatic (although Photoshopped) weight loss did so even more. I'm tired of a world that seems to promote eating disorders. Get rid of the ads.
# 111:
1:05 pm PST, Dec 13,
Angela Lackey, Michigan
I was appalled and stunned when one of these ads - with the after picture showing someone who clearly looks, if not is, anorexic. As someone who is trying to recover from anorexia - and it's a struggle - I can't believe these ads even exist.
I was appalled and stunned when one of these ads - with the after picture showing someone who clearly looks, if not is, anorexic. As someone who is trying to recover from anorexia - and it's a struggle - I can't believe these ads even exist.
# 110:
11:17 pm PST, Dec 11,
Melissa Wnorowski, New York
These ads promote unhealthy, dangerous weightloss, and are absolute torture to anyone suffering or recovering from an eating disorder. Being assaulted with a barrage of bony, stick thin torsos every time I log into myspace encourages the "think thin" mentality that I've fought so hard to overcome and sets me at war with myself. I often find myself having to close my browser because I literally cannot take the self-loathing and confliction that these ads evoke. I know that I can't be the only person who feels this way, and I also know that in the same way these ads tempt me to slip back into borderline starving myself, they motivate others to pursue, continue, or intensify unhealthy eating habits. It's been so hard for me to realize that being a skeleton with skin isn't the ideal definition of beauty, and these ads aim to negate that. They're more than wrong, they're twisted; and they need to stop.
These ads promote unhealthy, dangerous weightloss, and are absolute torture to anyone suffering or recovering from an eating disorder. Being assaulted with a barrage of bony, stick thin torsos every time I log into myspace encourages the "think thin" mentality that I've fought so hard to overcome and sets me at war with myself. I often find myself having to close my browser because I literally cannot take the self-loathing and confliction that these ads evoke. I know that I can't be the only person who feels this way, and I also know that in the same way these ads tempt me to slip back into borderline starving myself, they motivate others to pursue, continue, or intensify unhealthy eating habits. It's been so hard for me to realize that being a skeleton with skin isn't the ideal definition of beauty, and these ads aim to negate that. They're more than wrong, they're twisted; and they need to stop.
# 109:
8:27 pm PST, Dec 11,
Summer Hovaldt, Florida
The ads Are STUPID!! I hate that ppl have to see them all the time!!
The ads Are STUPID!! I hate that ppl have to see them all the time!!
# 108:
2:29 pm PST, Dec 11,
Marjorie Aaltink, Canada
# 107:
12:01 pm PST, Dec 11,
Nicole Evans, Washington
I find these ads very offensive as well, especially the ones that try to personally target you based on the info you provide to myspace. For instance, because I'm 22, I see ads that say "Overweight at 22? Here's how to lose weight now!" ... or something similar. I don't think it's right, and would love to see it stop.
I find these ads very offensive as well, especially the ones that try to personally target you based on the info you provide to myspace. For instance, because I'm 22, I see ads that say "Overweight at 22? Here's how to lose weight now!" ... or something similar. I don't think it's right, and would love to see it stop.
# 106:
8:35 am PST, Dec 8,
Britany Lueras, California
# 105:
7:41 pm PST, Dec 7,
Megan Thacker, Missouri
These ads sicken me, and it sickens me that Myspace would purposely and intentionally send a terrible message to millions of users every day in exchange for the almighty dollar.
These ads sicken me, and it sickens me that Myspace would purposely and intentionally send a terrible message to millions of users every day in exchange for the almighty dollar.
# 104:
2:33 pm PST, Dec 7,
Freddie Geisler, Florida
# 103:
12:41 pm PST, Dec 5,
Amanda Immel, Pennsylvania
# 102:
10:29 am PST, Dec 5,
Darcy Krieger, Ohio
These ads are ridiculous... they encourage RIDICULOUS weight loss. no one can lose THAT much weight THAT quickly and still be healthy. these are harmful not only for those with eating disorders, but for EVERYONE who believes them or feels worse about themselves for not being able to drop 57 pounds in 4 days.
These ads are ridiculous... they encourage RIDICULOUS weight loss. no one can lose THAT much weight THAT quickly and still be healthy. these are harmful not only for those with eating disorders, but for EVERYONE who believes them or feels worse about themselves for not being able to drop 57 pounds in 4 days.
# 101:
12:14 am PST, Dec 5,
Kristin Newman, Louisiana
