Every morning when I get up, I think that may be.. just may be today is the day when no new stupidity will be encountered by me on Facebook (FB). But people are always hell-bent in proving me wrong! They just cant see me at peace!
Ofcourse, I am talking about the latest “Change your display pic to some cartoon character” campaign going around now. Well, only I know of the trauma that an earlier Facebook Bra Color Campaign caused to my senses. Girls/Women (even some men) all over were going ballistic on FB writing the colors of their bras/ undergarments as their status messages. Why? To raise awareness against breast cancer. That was a massive act of mindfuck-ery. People actually thought that this is the way to go. I mean how gullible and stupid can you be? Seriously, a woman writing stuff like “Black! hehe” or a man writing “Brown today.. “.. Cant be beaten in stupidity ! Only God knows with how much difficulty I finally overcame the shock! And now a brand new idiotic campaign! What the fuck?
Basically, the cartoon character campaign is to raise awareness against child abuse. Infact , to quote the status message of a dude in my FB friend list (BTW, I have ‘fired’ this person from my friend list now) -
“ Speak up for the little ones who can’t be heard……… Change your facebook picture to a cartoon from your childhood. The goal? To not see a human face on facebook until Monday the 6th of Dec. Join the fight against CHILD ABUSE, and invite your friends to do the same! “
Seriously, WTF? Stupidity never ceases to amaze me. Let me be very clear: Just as some moron creating FB pages such as “I hate Khap Panchayats” and 6000-7000 people “following” it won’t instill fear in those old medieval jerks; changing your status pic to any cartoon character, vegetable, fruit, tree, condom brand etc wont raise awareness for any issue.
This actually is the heights of the infamous “FB / Twitter activism”; which can be explained through these few steps:
A GUIDE TO FB / TWITTER ACTIVISM
- Get inspired from movies such as Rang De Basanti
- Recognize that you actually are someone who cant move even to save his/her ass
- Get worried by the above fact as it will stand in way of the “inspiration” you got from RDB etc
- Think how can you make world a better place without even moving your toenail
- Come up with ideas like the above campaign or numerous FB pages
- Feel content and happy that you did your bit
- Feel proud that you have “contributed” towards making this world / our country a better place.
BRAVO !
India has the highest rate of child abuse in the world. And to top it all, often the victim is castigated by our hypocritic society. In this scenario, this is what every abused child needs – a FB campaign which will help them by raising awareness if people will change their pics to Tom, Jerry, Scooby Doo, Flintstones etc. Frankly, such campaigns arenot only stupid but also sadistic and hurtful. Sadistic, because they give a false sense of achievement to countless FB-zens and hurtful, because people dont ACTUALLY do something. They just think they ‘helped’. And that further condemns the issue to darkness.
If you really wanna help, move your sorry asses and visit NGOs that deal with this issue and get real and gritty awareness. There are several of them (having online presence also) alongside the more famous ones like CRY and UNICEF. Browse through their sites and contribute there rather than wasting time in shitty FB campaigns. Ofcourse, theres no problem if you dont want to contribute etc but atleast be clear about it. Dont treat yourself to a false sense of pride by coming up / taking part in such fiascos. Spare a thought for those children who really are on the worst receiving end of life.
