On September 11th, 2007, at approximately 1:30 AM, Kreative Software submitted Yay Genderform!, a Facebook application based on the original Yay Genderform!, to the Facebook application directory. About 15 hours later, at 4:29:09 PM, we got a message and our application was denied because of "offensive material."
"I expected that, because Facebook is simply, let's face it, not queer-friendly," says Yay Genderform!'s creator, Rebecca G. Bettencourt, in a post to the application's review wall. Despite numerous petitions circling around the Facebook community, Facebook has refused to properly label the gender field on profiles, expand the options offered, add a no-one option to their Interested In field, or allow multiple people to be listed in a relationship, among other commonly requested efforts to make the social networking site more queer-friendly. Rebecca created two other applications, SGO and Relationships+, to address some of these issues. Both have been accepted into the application directory. "Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands," she says. Yay Genderform!, however, seems to be Facebook's limit.
"I'm not going to try resubmitting it, and I'm not going to change it," says Rebecca. "It'll just have to remain an underground app." As an underground application, Yay Genderform! will not be listed in Facebook's directory nor will it be found in searches; however, users can still add and use the application, provided they can access it directly, and it will still appear on people's profiles. "It's not that important, really. Yay Genderform! is just for fun; no big loss."
Yes, this "article" is completely biased, and "Kreative Software," "we," "Rebecca G. Bettencourt," and the author of this article are all the same person, and it was created to get people riled up against Facebook, and it's totally bad "journalism," but at least we're honest about it.
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