There was a trend going on last weekend where people were changing their status to this:
"Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is to bring awareness to the problem of violence against children."
Thus millions of people changed their pictures and it was going around like wildfire.
There were various ways that people reacted to this. Some changed their picture, some ignored but I noticed many of my friends posting things portraying that simply changing your profile picture won't do anything and if people want to help children, they should actually do something about it. Others posted that it was a scam by a group of Pedophiles trying to get youth to accept their friend requests.
Personally, I thought it was a good concept and I thought that it didn't directly help but then I stumbled upon this article on yahoo news.
It stated that there was a sudden increase of donations and traffic because of the awareness brought by this Facebook trend.
The power of social networking is very interesting.
According to the article they can't pinpoint the direct source of the mysterious trend that was started.
Any-who, I thought it was great that something as simple as changing your profile picture truly helped raise awareness for a greater cause,
