BREAKING NEWS: After this blog posted the previous post on standing up against Child Abuse, a young teen contacted our webmaster and revealed he was the source of the campaign. The purpose behind his call to action - to get his parents to give him back his Facebook privileges.
"My mom took away facebook saying I spend too much time on Facebook and not enough time on my school work and chores," confesses 15-year-old Martin Tomfoolery in a Facebook chat interview. "After I didn't clean my room for three weeks, she said it was going to be a week without TV. When I said that was like child abuse, she took away my facebook time! That's just wrong!"
Marty, who is certainly no stranger to the viral potential of the social media realm having been behind previous efforts as "Every time you don't "like this" on Facebook, God kills a kitten" or "Retweet this if you want to be like the awesome people who retweeted this - or you really are just a loser, just like we always thought anyway", took to the masses to call attention to his plight.
"To take away my TV, that's just totally unfair. I've already missed all of my favourite shows, so I'll have to find them on Pirate Bay - and you know how slow that is," says Marty, who admits to being a fan of old-school cartoons including the original Spider Man and He-Man series from the 70s and 80s. "But to take away my Facebook time, that's just not right, man. Today, that's like locking a kid up by himself and feeding him nothing but bread and water - it's child abuse. I'm gonna die at school, if I didn't know what's going on twitter and facebook. My stupid parents just have noooooo idea."
Marty, who was unable to log in with his own facebook account (my parents joined Facebook last month, major bummer!) used a friend's account to spread the word.
"I figured, if I could show that everyone thought what my mom was doing was child abuse, then she'd get scared I'd sue her or something and I could get my Facebook back," says Marty, who was inspired by a case in Quebec where a 12 year old successfully sued her parents for grounding her for posting inappropriate images of herself on Facebook.
When asked about the success of his campaign, Marty appeared genuinely surprised. "To be honest, I didn't think it'd really get much hype. But I mean, people WANT to put up pictures of their favourite cartoon characters anyway. You just have to give them a good reason to do it," he says. "That's like, the secret to being popular."
Marty has since had his facebook privileges restored to him (Without facebook, he had spent the weekend cleaning his room, but Marty strongly believes the level of support he received onliine had something to do with his mother's final decision). Asked about his next campaign cause, the teen replied thoughtfully, "Maybe update your profile pic to your favourite childhood toy or first pet or something." He hasn't decided on a worthy cause behind his campaign but is considering a few interesting political offers, he says.
"My mom took away facebook saying I spend too much time on Facebook and not enough time on my school work and chores," confesses 15-year-old Martin Tomfoolery in a Facebook chat interview. "After I didn't clean my room for three weeks, she said it was going to be a week without TV. When I said that was like child abuse, she took away my facebook time! That's just wrong!"
Marty, who is certainly no stranger to the viral potential of the social media realm having been behind previous efforts as "Every time you don't "like this" on Facebook, God kills a kitten" or "Retweet this if you want to be like the awesome people who retweeted this - or you really are just a loser, just like we always thought anyway", took to the masses to call attention to his plight.
"To take away my TV, that's just totally unfair. I've already missed all of my favourite shows, so I'll have to find them on Pirate Bay - and you know how slow that is," says Marty, who admits to being a fan of old-school cartoons including the original Spider Man and He-Man series from the 70s and 80s. "But to take away my Facebook time, that's just not right, man. Today, that's like locking a kid up by himself and feeding him nothing but bread and water - it's child abuse. I'm gonna die at school, if I didn't know what's going on twitter and facebook. My stupid parents just have noooooo idea."
Marty, who was unable to log in with his own facebook account (my parents joined Facebook last month, major bummer!) used a friend's account to spread the word.
"I figured, if I could show that everyone thought what my mom was doing was child abuse, then she'd get scared I'd sue her or something and I could get my Facebook back," says Marty, who was inspired by a case in Quebec where a 12 year old successfully sued her parents for grounding her for posting inappropriate images of herself on Facebook.
When asked about the success of his campaign, Marty appeared genuinely surprised. "To be honest, I didn't think it'd really get much hype. But I mean, people WANT to put up pictures of their favourite cartoon characters anyway. You just have to give them a good reason to do it," he says. "That's like, the secret to being popular."
Marty has since had his facebook privileges restored to him (Without facebook, he had spent the weekend cleaning his room, but Marty strongly believes the level of support he received onliine had something to do with his mother's final decision). Asked about his next campaign cause, the teen replied thoughtfully, "Maybe update your profile pic to your favourite childhood toy or first pet or something." He hasn't decided on a worthy cause behind his campaign but is considering a few interesting political offers, he says.
