The latest trend in Facebook culture is changing your profile pic to help fight child abuse. Have you noticed friends and family suddenly changing profile pictures to cartoon characters? The Facebook trend started as a game, but it has soon morphed into a phenomenon that continues to proliferate across the Internet. The trend was a small game in Greek that started in mid-November, but it was only until December 5, 2010 that has now made it a part of Facebook culture. Even “60 Minutes” interview with Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, December 05, 2010 included comments on the new Facebook trend.
Does Changing Your Facebook Image to a Cartoon Profile Really Fight Child Abuse?
Some users have questioned if this new cartoon profile pic trend is a scam. It is not a scam, but it was originally set as a game and it has proliferated on the Internet. The question is how does this new trend fight child abuse? Some users report dozens of friends changing their profile image to an old-school cartoon such as Ninja Turtles, He-Man, Smurfs, and other nostalgic characters from the 80s and 90s cartoons.The change in images has been fun for older Facebook users, but the question has arisen as to how changing a Facebook profile image actually helps fight child abuse. No non-profit organizations or any other companies have sponsored the movement, so no money is funneled into any legitimate organization. Instead, users have asked if the change in profile images is a scam. Mark Zuckerberg confirms that it is not a scam, but there are still no answers for how the movement fights child abuse or fights the cause.
New Facebook Cartoon Websites Pop Up
With the new trend emerging, Facebook cartoon websites have been popping up to support the new movement and offer customized cartoon characters for users’ Facebook profiles. These sites let you download a new cartoon and add it to your profile. The sites size the images to fit a Facebook profile. They include personalized images of people or older images of cartoon characters many people in their 20s and 30s know and love from their Saturday morning cartoons. Most of these sites offer free images, so you do not need to pay to download several cartoons for the Facebook child abuse movement.
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