Sketchin' on Facebook

I know personally that I can spend hours creeping my life away on Facebook and I’m sure countless of other college students feel the same way. When it comes to social networking websites such as these, we all have to be careful about the information we submit. It has been brought to my attention that pedophiles have invented a new way to deceive Facebook users into accepting their friend requests. Over the past few weeks, people have made their statuses “Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon character from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday, Dec 6th of 2010, there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories! This is for a campaign against violence on children." As always if some of your friends change their profile pictures, you will obviously follow the trend. I don’t know if it’s just me but I know when I log onto my Facebook, my mini- feed is clogged of notifications of all of my friends changing their profile pictures to the cartoon character of their choice. I did not see the point since changing you picture is in no way creating awareness for child abuse. There are no donations being made and no program groups are involved in this Facebook trend that is taking over cyber space. Since I found this act pointless I decided to not follow the trend and pick one of my favorite cartoon characters to use as my profile picture and I am sure glad I didn’t. It is now being reported that “the group asking everyone to change their profile pictures to their favorite cartoon character is actually a group of pedophiles. They are doing it because kids will accept their friend request faster if they see a cartoon picture. It has nothing to do with supporting child abuse and violence; IT'S ON TONIGHT'S NEWS. Copy and paste this to your status, let everyone know now!!!” My one word of advice would be if you have a cartoon picture as your profile picture change it, and to never accept a friend request from someone you do not know, especially if they have a cartoon as their main picture. You never know who will be creeping on you!