Pray.

OK, so I logged on to Facebook yesterday night and was faced with an onslaught of friends who changed their profile pictures to cartoon characters. And some accompanied their change with the following update:

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 for violence against children.

WTF. Reading this statement sends alarm bells ringing at the back of my mind. Something's not right here. If you want to make a statement against violence on children, I'm pretty sure this isn't the way to do it.

Ok, I can see how changing your profile picture will take us back to the good old days of our childhood. Some people change their profile picture, say "Oooh, I liked this cartoon,", and then look at their friends profile picture and say "Ooh, cool, he/she liked that cartoon," and whatever. But that's not really the point of this exercise, right?

Most people are just taking this time to show off what "cool" or "funky" or "cute" cartoons they liked when they were younger, and they think that through that, they're fighting violence against children, taking a stand for violence against children, but that's fuckshit. You're not doing anything!

This changing of profile picture is just a facebook FAD. You're not furthering a cause, you're showing your friends what cartoon you liked as a kid and THAT'S ALL.

If you really want to do something, there are other more meaningful ways, you know? Through facebook, you can post links, information and videos. Or, you can change your profile picture to a picture of you donating to charity, and encourage your friends to do the same! More action please!

Justin Bieber is doing more than you, that's for sure.