Recently I have found myself on Facebook finding myself friends with many cartoons characters. My excitement was shot down shortly after when finding out it was a new campaign asking users to change their profile picture to a photo of a favorite childhood cartoon to raise awareness of child abuse. This idea has gone viral with friends from all over the world changing to cartoon images. The facebook page claiming to be promoting the cartoon profile picture has said "Until Monday (Dec. 6), there should be no human faces on Facebook but an invasion of memories. This is for eliminating violence against children."Personally I do not think this will help the cause of child abuse very much apart from raising slight awareness, but feel it's a fun way for facebook users to bring back some nostalgia. I was very surprised by this movement as usually I do not see many ideas going viral on facebook, and wasn't sure the idea that it was for child abuse would catch on, but it seems that a mix of having fun and fitting in has fueled this viral explosion
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Campaign-To-End-Violence-Against-Children-Childhood-Cartoon-Faces/165381953497707
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