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Handle With Care
The handling of body photographs online, however, is still a tricky issue. There are certain factors which need to be carefully considered:
If All Is Done Properly…Where’s the Harm?
If all of the above considerations are observed, pictures can be a powerful tool for helping prospective patients learn more about procedures, identify problems, empathise with others and get realistic expectations of results. It also allows them to research the work of surgeons before getting up the courage to make that initial contact.
Some procedures are relatively obscure so people may not have known about them in order to actively look up online via the main website. Or they may have felt too embarrassed to search the term. Inverted Nipples are a good example. Yet inverted nipples pictures and articles on social media tend to get high viewings and our pictures are always very sensitively handled.
If a male nipple gets the OK to be shown online, across social and other medias, we would fully agree with the Breastfeeding campaigners that there is nothing any more offensive about Female Nipples if sensitively handled and in the correct context.
As Facebook are keen to point out: They don’t actually actively monitor all photos online. In order for a picture to get taken down, it has to be reported by somebody else.
So the main consideration when posting cosmetic surgery pictures on Social Media needs to be: might this offend others? Is this picture informative, useful and from a clinical context? If so, there should be no problem.