You have all seen online campaigns like this, whether you are on Facebook, MySpace or any other online community, or simply haven't set your junk mail filter high enough to block friends that are prone to sending stuff like this your way. They seem to be getting more in number lately; chain e-mail, discussion groups and the like, all prompting you to one seemingly miraculous website or another, promising you can do your part to end starvation in the third world with just one click... Well I got a bone or two to pick with that notion.
First of all... what sort of children eat clicks? And if there are such children, are they responsible for every double-click we've ever done that has not worked? Have we been falsely blaming Microsoft all those years? All those damn years, wondering where the missing clicks went... Imagine that, conniving third world childe-beasts feasting on your frustrated clicks while you wait and you wait in front of a frozen screen and nothing happens...
And even if the sly progeny of the underprivileged nations are not to blame for all the missing clicks, how can you know for sure that these campaigns actually work? What if all these kids, pretending to starve and begging for your yummy clicks, are secretly working for computer hardware companies in a ploy to sell more mouse devices? But I'm getting too paranoid for my own good now.
Feed a child with a click; it actually does work, and that's where its brilliance lies. But see, it's not really the child you set out to feed in the first place. No sir, it's not the bony, exhausted toddler in the picture; it's more likely the legacy of the person that set up this fascinating website that claims to end world hunger by use of the trivial mechanics that is clicking on your mouse controller. Assuming of course that this brilliant, brilliant man, a true pioneer in e-activism, has actually procreated successfully; and even then there's a good chance that his offspring is receiving that money through delayed child support payments. Well, at least you're helping the children of divorced parents, and that is something.
Simply put, if you really think you're changing anything that matters in this world by clicking on something, slouched in front of your computer screen, well think again. If you're fervently supporting a cause by nodding to a discussion board's ambiguous views, nice try hero. It's as effective as getting mad at the television set for giving you bad news. I bet that has worked wonders for you so far.
First of all... what sort of children eat clicks? And if there are such children, are they responsible for every double-click we've ever done that has not worked? Have we been falsely blaming Microsoft all those years? All those damn years, wondering where the missing clicks went... Imagine that, conniving third world childe-beasts feasting on your frustrated clicks while you wait and you wait in front of a frozen screen and nothing happens...
And even if the sly progeny of the underprivileged nations are not to blame for all the missing clicks, how can you know for sure that these campaigns actually work? What if all these kids, pretending to starve and begging for your yummy clicks, are secretly working for computer hardware companies in a ploy to sell more mouse devices? But I'm getting too paranoid for my own good now.
Feed a child with a click; it actually does work, and that's where its brilliance lies. But see, it's not really the child you set out to feed in the first place. No sir, it's not the bony, exhausted toddler in the picture; it's more likely the legacy of the person that set up this fascinating website that claims to end world hunger by use of the trivial mechanics that is clicking on your mouse controller. Assuming of course that this brilliant, brilliant man, a true pioneer in e-activism, has actually procreated successfully; and even then there's a good chance that his offspring is receiving that money through delayed child support payments. Well, at least you're helping the children of divorced parents, and that is something.
Simply put, if you really think you're changing anything that matters in this world by clicking on something, slouched in front of your computer screen, well think again. If you're fervently supporting a cause by nodding to a discussion board's ambiguous views, nice try hero. It's as effective as getting mad at the television set for giving you bad news. I bet that has worked wonders for you so far.
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