Facebook is being invaded by cartoon pictures, have you noticed it? If you haven’t noticed the invasion then let me ask you this question: where were you in the last few days? The present cartoon pictures invasion happening to Facebook is a proof of how easy it is to get things go viral in social networks like Facebook; just a paragraph of well-crafted words posted on a wall is sure to get people into something. We’ve seen in the past few months some campaigns on Facebook like the ‘I Like It On’ sexy status updates and the ‘color of the day’ status update go viral and we can expect more of this kind of campaigns get into FB in the coming months.
The Facebook Cartoon Profile Pic campaign is for a cause, it is meant to raise awareness about violence against children. More and more children across the globe are subjected to different kinds of abuses and the first step to stopping it is by us becoming aware of it. The FB Cartoon pic invasion is meant to remind us about our childhood, of how it is to be a child. Cartoon characters are part of the lives of children and we were once children who had favorite cartoon characters. Of course not everyone in Facebook who has changed their profile pic into a cartoon character knows the real reason for the switch, many are just blindly copying what others are doing.
The origin of this campaign is not known but there are a couple of Facebook fan pages that pushes this campaign. There are also those who do not believe in the campaign, they see it as something silly, as silly as the ‘I like it On’ campaign. Others think that many cartoon characters depict violence on children so the campaign is not fitting for the cause.
This is what some people are being told!:
IMPORTANT: the whole changing your profile picture to your favorite cartoon character thing was actually created by a group of pedophiles, because if children see pictures of cartoons they will add them, it was currently on the program Internet Frauds and will apparently be on tv some time tonight, put this as your status to warn people and change your profile pictures back, thank you!