I had a completely different post planned for today... and then I got annoyed. Annoyance turned to anger. Anger turned to fury. Fury became this blog post.
You know, I hope by now I've established in previous posts that I have a sense of humor. I am all for fun. I can take a joke. But someone has to call bullshit on all this phony Facebook activism.
The latest internet meme to pollute my Facebook newsfeed calls for us to change our profile pictures to that of our favorite cartoon character from childhood. When I first saw friends changing their pictures to beloved cartoon characters, I thought "cute" or "Oh I remember that one," but I didn't know why. As more pictures changed, the usual calls requesting others to do the same came along with them. No reason given. I think someone said something about not wanting to see a human face on Facebook. Ok, whatever. I even gave in for a couple of days. I love 80's cartoons after all. Later I changed it to my Christmas Tree because I was feeling festive and forgot all about the cartoon thing. Finally, after a couple of weeks, an explanation of the cartoon phenomenon finally pops up on my page in the form of this Facebook status reposted here verbatim.
"change your FB profile picture to a favorite cartoon from your childhood. The goal is to not see a human face on FB till Monday, December, 6th. Join the fight against child abuse."
Really? Pardon me for one second...
HOW THE FUCK DOES CHANGING MY FACEBOOK PROFILE PICTURE FIGHT CHILD ABUSE?
