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Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« on: December 05, 2010, 08:28:40 pm »
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"Change your FB profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood. The goal? To not see a human face on FB till Monday, December 6th. Join the fight against child abuse & copy & paste to your status to invite your friends"

Wow. Seriously?

How on EARTH does that do anything to help "the fight against child abuse"?

What a fucking ridiculous thing to do. Do these people seriously think they're making any sort of substantial contribution to the cause?

If you want to fight child abuse, donate to a charity which specialises in this work, like the Australian Childhood Foundation. Don't sit there, change a Facebook picture and think you're adding anything of value to the world (apart from letting me know which of my Facebook "friends" are morons).

Let's start a new status "meme". Donate some money to the ACF and then change your status to "I donated to a charity to fight child abuse this week but I know its nothing compared to what your cartoon profile pictures did".*

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*Credit to Cthulhu for coming up with this.

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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2010, 08:51:59 pm »
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What the fuck is a Lucy Laffer?

But this is really, really poor form.
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2010, 09:59:05 pm »
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so true. it's all about seeming to be doing something rather than actually doing it. i guess they will use the typical "raising awareness" reason.
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2010, 10:05:48 pm »
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Awareness before stupid facebook photo change = 'x'
Awareness after  "                                         " = x + 1
Harm caused after "                                     "     = 0

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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2010, 10:09:51 pm »
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Harm caused = a bunch of self-satisfied people who walk away from their computers and feel like they did something for the children, thereby allaying their conscience sufficiently to remove the need to actually do some useful, e.g. donate to a charity.
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2010, 10:10:11 pm »
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LOLLLLi thought the exact same thing... i shit you not haha
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2010, 10:10:54 pm »
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2010, 10:35:03 pm »
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Status from Stacy:
Attention!!!!!!Justreported that the group that started the 'post' about changingyourprofile picture to a cartooncharacter is actually a pedophilegroup thatis doing this because it is easier to get accepted 'friendrequests'!!!Please re-post [sic]


/thread? :)
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2010, 10:38:02 pm »
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Attention!!!!!!Justreported that the group that started the 'post' about changingyourprofile picture to a cartooncharacter is actually a pedophilegroup thatis doing this because it is easier to get accepted 'friendrequests'!!!Please re-post [sic]


/thread? Smiley

Is that real?
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2010, 10:39:01 pm »
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lol seriously?
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2010, 11:01:07 pm »
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100% real
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2010, 11:04:19 pm »
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Fuck ><
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2010, 08:09:57 am »
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How is this different to the "I like it on..." that I just found to be spam on my facebook wall.

It does raise some (not a lot of awareness), but you must admit that facebook is becoming a powerful medium.

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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2010, 10:36:31 am »
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Quote from: The Ghost Inside! on December 05, 2010, 11:04:19 pm
Fuck ><

You summed up what I thought. FB Morons!
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Re: Someone explain to me the point of this ridiculous "campaign"
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2010, 10:50:38 am »
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I dislike how we're kind of peer-pressured into it because if we don't it's a "YOU DON'T SUPPORT ANTI-CHILD ABUSE CHARITIES"
Helloooo..........
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