Facebook cartoon campaign to end child abuse was not organized by pedophiles after all
By Kelly BourdetDecember 7th, 2010, 2:15 pmComments (2)
I've been spending this week ending child abuse. "Did you volunteer your time at a shelter benefiting abused women and children?" you may ask. The answer is no; I did something far more meaningful. This week, despite my strenuous schedule, I found time to change my Facebook profile picture to a favorite cartoon character, one representative of the fond memories I have from childhood. Many of you probably engaged in a similar act of selflessness — as part of a Facebook-wide campaign to end child abuse. (Don't ask exactly how that works. Just do it.)
But then, just when I was feeling really self-satisfied, I heard a rumor that it was actually pedophiles behind the whole thing! Something about how pedophiles started this campaign just so they could identify underage teens on Facebook. This didn't really make any sense, but I was outraged anyway. Thankfully, Facebook has issued a statement assuring me that pedophiles were not, in fact, behind the cartoon craze. Though the cartoon campaign ended yesterday, I can rest assured of my altruism. Besides, everyone knows finding a teen who's DTF on Facebook is easy. Just look for the tell-tale signs: angled, cleavage-exposing, Mac Photobooth profile pic; gratuitous use of internet acronyms; sidebangs.
Commentarium (2 Comments)
What I saw was that you were supposed to change your profile pic and then give a donation to a local shelter or national organization. At least, that's what I did. I was Kidd Video for the week and found out there's a shelter the next town over (how horrible that I didn't know that?) and gave them a donation.
I was the only one out of my 250+ facebook friends who saw this vascuous, self-promotion for what it was. It made no sense that changing my facebook picture would help some abused kid and it irritated me how righteously the sheep bandied it around. The fact that people immediately accepted that this was the work of a peadophile ring because "it's on tonights news!" demonstrated further how ignorant they were. Not one of them had thought to type something into google. I hate the world