why does everyone have cartoon pics as their facebook pics?

meh. Ima change it to pokemon now.

Mine's Tino Tonitini.
It'll be some badass Pokemon by tomorrow.

Doesn't Facebook have a new chain letter every day or something that people blindly follow just because "all the cool kids are doing it and I don't wanna be left out"?

Im a fun killer and dont have a facebook account.

Me either, but I'd really not have many people to add aside from family and online friends (and I wouldn't have both on the same account, my online life should not make contact with my persona life). Not to mention I'm too lazy to actually check up on stuff like that anyway, and it'd be more of a chore than anything.

Also! I thought this was initially a joke...

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It is a joke. Just because there were less reported cases of child abuse that day doesn't mean it's directly related to this, nor does it mean that child abuse was stopped by people putting Rugrats as image. I'm sure there were plenty of child abuse cases that day. Maybe there were less reports because people were too busy checking out all the cartoons their friends put as their images instead of walking outside to see their neighbor beating a child.

I'm sure this awareness might have made some people really think about their actions as an abusive parent, but I find it incredibly unlikely that something had the Grinch effect of making child abuses around the world reform their ways.

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lolololollolololol

Never. I refuse to sink as low as 99% of people and divulge all my everyday bullpomegranate with everyone.

That's actually what TWITTER is supposed to mean... but yeah, a lot of people uses facebook as twitter lol. I had fucking Gir :3 I read the chain about "changing to remember our childhood" and I was like okay, that sounds nice... then I read "...and stop child abuse" and I was like wtp?! o.o

YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HELP SUFFERING CHILDREN? FOCUSING ON WHAT YOUR FAVOURITE CARTOON WAS 12 YEARS AGO

Agreed. There are tonnes of practical, logical ways to help suffering children across the world. If they REALLY wanted to do something, instead of sitting here and sticking their favorite childhood character on their facebook profile, they could actually go out and donate to a charity that helps these children or something.

Its nice that people see a problem, but its a shame that too many of these people dont take any REAL action to try to solve it and choose to take the comfortable, easy "stick ______ on my facebook profile" route.

Want to help suffering children?

Donate to endabuse.org

This Facebook trend is silly, and so is this thread!

IT'S MOTHERFU'CKING POKEMON MONTH AND THERE IS NO DAMN CAUSE.
Something is wrong on the internet and it's up to me to fix it.



I WILL MAKE THIS BETTER WITH GENDER-SHIFTED ASSASSINS FROM REDDIT
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SHE-EZIO FOR SOUTHPERRY-TAN. White like a chinchilla. Sexy as hell.

no facebook for the winz

Lol thanks people, I just set mine to teddy ruxpin

I WILL MAKE THIS BETTER WITH GENDER-SHIFTED ASSASSINS FROM REDDIT
[imgspoiler]http://i.imgur.com/mqp8Q.jpg[/imgspoiler]
SHE-EZIO FOR SOUTHPERRY-TAN. White like a chinchilla. Sexy as hell.

brb changin' pants.

Agreed. There are tonnes of practical, logical ways to help suffering children across the world. If they REALLY wanted to do something, instead of sitting here and sticking their favorite childhood character on their facebook profile, they could actually go out and donate to a charity that helps these children or something.

Its nice that people see a problem, but its a shame that too many of these people dont take any REAL action to try to solve it and choose to take the comfortable, easy "stick ______ on my facebook profile" route.

I'm sure most of them don't really care about the cause, they just see everyone else doing it and don't wanna feel left out, or seem like a jerk for not "caring about the abused children" when everyone else is.

I just saw a lot of people change their pictures to cartoon characters and I changed mine to show off my love of Wile E. Coyote, had no idea it had something to do with kids.

I'mma just copy+paste my little rant from FB:

"Change your profile picture to a cartoon character from your childhood. The goal? To not see a human face until Monday, Dec 6th. The cause? To stop child abuse! Now go change your picture & invite all you friends to do the same."

Whole thing is ridiculous. Change your profile picture to a cartoon character if you want. That's fine; I obviously do it too. But how the heck does doing so stop child abuse in any way?

My problem with it is that unlike, say, Spirit Day a while back, when everybody wore purple to make a statement about a current event, nothing is really going to happen here. Saying "We are all against people bullying gays!" means something, because unfortunately there are actually people who think it is ok. Child abuse is universally considered to be, well, bad, so saying "We are all against child abuse!" means... absolutely nothing.

Additionally, while it does raise awareness/encourage people to take an active role... it doesn't do enough. Even saying something like "try to donate to charity x or y" would have been better. One person donating a few dollars to a charity does so much more in this situation than a few people (who are probably teenagers without kids) changing their profile picture.

/cynicaloldmanrant

Oh, to clarify: the "obviously I do it too" thing refers to how I had Sugisaki as my profile picture for a long time; only changed it recently to Minamimoto.

YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HELP SUFFERING CHILDREN? FOCUSING ON WHAT YOUR FAVOURITE CARTOON WAS 12 YEARS AGO

hater

It is a joke. Just because there were less reported cases of child abuse that day doesn't mean it's directly related to this, nor does it mean that child abuse was stopped by people putting Rugrats as image. I'm sure there were plenty of child abuse cases that day. Maybe there were less reports because people were too busy checking out all the cartoons their friends put as their images instead of walking outside to see their neighbor beating a child..

You realize the entire image is a fake/joke right?

I have tricked the un-trickable.

I did it for the nostalgia trip. Angry Beavers? pineapple yeah.

My picture has always been the picture of Link that I used to have as my avatar here. lol

My FB picture is Maria Renard from Akumajou Dracula X: Chi no Rondo.