{"id":166917,"date":"2010-01-11T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/11\/the-mystery-of-the-facebook-bra-color-meme-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:13:32","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-facebook-bra-color-meme-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166917","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of the Facebook Bra-Color Meme [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Jennifer Valentino, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>Two big questions remain about the recent spate of Facebook updates from women posting only their bra color as their status: Do the messages really raise awareness of breast cancer, as they\u2019re reportedly intended? And who came up with this idea, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s Know Your Meme, which follows Internet trends, says the messages began taking off on Thursday. The site offers several versions of the letters that started the trend, with the typical format going something like: \u201cList the color of your bra in your FB status, just the color, nothing more. Then send this mssg to your girlfriends\u2019 inboxes, too \u2026 no men. The point is to see how far we can spread breast cancer awareness \u2026 and make the men wonder what\u2019s up <img src='http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' \/> \u201d Some of the letters mention breast-cancer awareness, but some talk only about playing a joke on the men of Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/01\/11\/the-mystery-of-the-facebook-bra-color-meme\/\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100111\/the-mystery-of-the-facebook-bra-color-meme\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jennifer Valentino, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal Two big questions remain about the recent spate of Facebook updates from women posting only their bra color as their status: Do the messages really raise awareness of breast cancer, as they\u2019re reportedly intended? And who came up with this idea, anyway? The Washington Post\u2019s Know Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}