Facebook should implement opt-in warnings for graphic, traumatic, and violent media (pictures and video) as a default option on users' News Feeds. As you may know, this is a long-standing feature on Twitter and should be industry standard across social media platforms. Sign this petition to urge Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, to bring our News Feeds up to par. Please sign and share widely with your networks. To spread the word further, please use the hashtag #NewsFeedReformNOW and help make this campaign go viral!

REASONS TO IMPLEMENT OPT-IN WARNINGS:

1. Respect for deceased persons and animals who obviously cannot provide consent nor retain agency, as well as their surviving loved ones

2. Respect for those users of social media with PTSD and other mental illness and conditions which have been documented in countless studies as having exacerbated anxiety, stress and other negative responses and health outcomes from repeated exposure to graphic, traumatic and violent media

3. Desensitization, dehumanization and delegitimization of bodies and persons. This may seem like a minor issue and self-fulfilling prophecy, because it is, as most of us as mainstream media consumers are sadly already desensitized.

ATTN: Mark Zuckerberg

1 Hacker Way

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,

We, the undersigned, urgently request you implement opt-in warnings for graphic, traumatic, and violent media (pictures and video) as a default option on users' News Feeds. As you may know, this is a long-standing feature on Twitter and should be industry standard across social media platforms.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned