Facebook Viral Trend: Change Your Profile Picture to a Cartoon Character to End Child Abuse

Sat, 12/04/2010 - 10:51am (14 years 21 weeks ago)

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Cartoon Character Facebook viral trend

Here are some current status' Facebooker's are pasting to their profiles ...

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Change your default facebook picture to a cartoon character from your childhood. THE GOAL? To not see a human face on facebook until Monday the 6th of Dec.. Join the fight against child abuse, and invite your friends to do the same.

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Change your profile picture to one of your favorite cartoon characters and ask your friends to do the same. The point of the game? To have no human faces on Facebook, only childhood memories by Monday, to fight child abuse. Copy and paste to spread the word!

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From the 16th to the 20th of November, we shall change our profile pictures to our favourite cartoon characters. The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook.

And a screenshot from my own profile Laughing :

Now here's my question ...

Of course pulling the child abuse card is sure to get people to go along with it, it's one of those things where you assume others will think you're scum if you don't; I think it's a given that 99% of the world is against child abuse ... but, I have to wonder ... that man or woman who is seconds away from laying the smack down on some poor kid ... is s/he going to stop, look at Facebook, see all the cute cartoon characters on people's profiles and say ... "You're lucky all these people are changing their profile pics to Smurfs and My Little Pony's or you were about to git it! I'll save this whoopin' until after the 6th of December!" Thinking

Update: NOW there's a new Facebook viral trend saying this is all just a ruse started by a group of pedophiles. See information about that here.