Comments on: A Cartoonish Way to Prevent Cruelty

By: Philip Berne

Philip Berne — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:20:27 +0000

That is a very good point. I could not find any official page supporting this recent trend, but I did visit the NSPCC Web site before I wrote this column, so in a way, I supposed they have increased my awareness of their organization.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:10:05 +0000

You know the bra-color movement that the women on facebook pulled a while back for Susan G Komen Breast Cancer awareness?

I’m sure it didn’t cure a single case of cancer, but the Breast Cancer awareness page got 2000% more hits than any other week in its existence. Waste of time? Hell no- and all it took you was 2 minutes to find an avatar or post a status.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:14:11 +0000

Ok I get that saying us as people changing our photos isn’t really DOING something. But the fact that we are changing the profile pictures means the group that IS doing something is getting awareness, more support, and the fact is they probably garnered some sponsorship in this process that will allow them to keep doing what they do to prevent child cruelty. Which was the entire point. Some marketing rep probably started this whole thing, and good on him. He/she figured out a way to get their name out, get people involved. Even if 99% of the people just change their picture and do nothing else, but 1% of people turn to actually do something productive, whether it means give money, or actually go out and do something, then NSPCC accomplished exactly what they set out to do. That is still more support and awareness than what they had a week ago. Its disappointing that you weren’t able to see outside the box of “well why should I have to prove I’m against child cruelty.” That was clearly not the point of the movement.

By: Ricky Cadden

Ricky Cadden — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:04:31 +0000

I agree. I don’t change my avatar to show support for crap that’s kinda obviously supported anyways. I also don’t do the little banners on your twitter icon. Apparently, it’s hateful, but whatever.

As an alternate conclusion to your article, I came across this yesterday and had to laugh out loud: http://failbook.failblog.org/2010/12/03/funny-facebook-fails-child-abuse-week/

It’s a pretty in-your-face response, but it makes sense, and it’s someone *actually doing something*.