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After AIDS awareness day, let us now give our support to our children!

Support ANTI-CHILD ABUSE CAMPAIGN, by changing your Facebook profile pic to your favorite cartoon character and keep it until December 6, 2010. Hopefully by then there will be no human faces or images found on Facebook.

I am not sure who started this campaign (it was a status post announcement i found from a friend, who i am guessing found it from a friend too and so on), but it is definitely something I strongly agree with! This maybe some random post or may not come from a very important government agency or a valid non-government organization, but what the heck, its purpose and message is something we all care about. After all we are not ask to pay for donation, showing your support with just a few clicks from your computer, mobile or tablet is not that of a big deal. This is also not meant to promote a brand, for it does not ask you to place any twibbons or tag a certain product.  The campaign is simply showing the world that we are all against child abuse. Don’t we all want our kids to be safe, protected and free from danger or maltreatment from abusive beings? So let’s all act now and show our sincere support on protecting our children.

Please share among your friends and show the world that we all love and care about our children. Hoping celebrities, artist, socialites, famous personalities, politicians, athletes etc will also join this campaign and spare a few days of keeping their personal branding aside.

[Update: 12-02-10]

Yahoo Philippines noticed the viral effect of the Anti-Child Abuse Facebook Campaign started by an unknown person.

– Filipinos take on favorite cartoon characters to support campaign vs. child abuse Yahoo PH – Fit to Post by Erwin Oliva

[Update: 12-03-10]

As I was browsing further, I found a page concerning the same activity of changing one’s profile picture to their favorite cartoon character, but on this post it was a game and it started mid November and will finish by end of the month.  A local Filipino page link was even provided as an example of the status post. International information sites Huffington Post and All Facebook is the source of this information. Same as the ANTI-Child Abuse Campaign happening in the Philippines, origin of the viral activity on facebook is unknown.

Just a thought: Maybe the person who started to include “elimination of violence against children” on this status facebook game had a hard time convincing his/her friends to change their profile pictures and so added something that would probably encourage them to support a good cause so as to continue the game.. same as rumors… words are usually exaggerated and as it goes from one person to another the story changes….

Check on the links below from where I think this campaign started:

Huffington Post: Cartoon Character Facebook Profile Pictures Go Viral: Here’s Why

All Facebook: Cartoon Character Meme Spreads Around Facebook

More links:

Know your Meme: Facebook Cartoon Profile Picture Week

fbknol.com: Cartoon characters as profile pictures go viral on Facebook

Mahallas: Facebook Cartoon profile picture

Facebook Cartoon Network Event Page

Any of these maybe the origin of the Anti Child Abuse Viral campaign that flooded our Facebook with cute cartoon character profile pictures, it definitely touched and moved a lot of people. Showing support on how we value our future leaders, our children, through a simple task as this have once again gathered all Filipinos and other nationalities around the globe to shout out a very important message.  Not everyone knows the origin of this campaign, but a lot have participated not only because its fun but because they want to show their support that they are against child abuse.

I care about our children and with this simple task I am shouting out to the world that I am against Child Abuse and will keep my cartoon character profile picture until the end of this campaign.

Kudos to the person who have started this campaign, for you have brought all nations together!