Large numbers of Facebook users, especially children replace their profile photos with the images of old cartoon characters. The trend seems to have gone viral as a step to prevent child abuse, through hiding real photos and thus the identity.
Many a Facebook members are resetting their profiles now. As per statuses message of Facebook members, it looks that they switch from real photos to cartoon images primarily to save themselves from child abuse and to recall their old cartoon memories.
Interestingly most of Facebook users place images and graphics of old cartoon characters instead of their photos. It shows that Facebook users largely pick their profile images up from the characters of old cartoon series like Doug, Recess, Rugrats, Animaniacs, Ren and Stimpy, Aaahh!, Real Monsters, Angry Beavers, Rocko’s Modern Life and Strawberry Shortcake.
A user suggests his friends to change their profile images on his Facebook status until December 7. “From now until December 7, change your profile picture to a cartoon character from your childhood. The objective of this is not to see any human faces on Facebook but an invasion of memories for the fight against Violence to Children. Remember we were kids too: D,” said a Facebook enthusiast.
According to reports, child abuse is on a low in the United States. However, things are not completely safe especially on Internet. There are several cases in which children are led to abuses through their social networking and chatting profiles. So a Facebook campaign against such growing trends can reset things into a better situation, analyst hope.
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