Monday 6 December 2010

Can Facebook really change anything?

" Change your facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood 
and invite your friends to do the same. Until monday, there should be no
human faces on facebook, but a stash of memories. This is for 
eliminating violence against children"


This is the Facebook status of most of my online friends, and has been for the last week.
And it seems to have taken effect. When I logged on to Facebook last week this is the news feed that i was greeted with:




This campaign claims to raise awareness of Child Cruelty, but does it really?
Most social networkers join in because there friends did, and they too wanted an excuse to have a silly profile picture. I personally am all for supporting a good cause, but what good is a cartoon character really going to do?
It doesn't help stop abuse and it doesn't raise money, to me it seems that its just another social networking craze, something that will die out after today, without effecting anything but my news feed. 

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