Like to save a child

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                So I was sitting on facebook trying to decide what my topic would be for this week. Which was not easy every idea that came to mind was either ridiculous or I already did it. In frustration I partly said I am not going to write a blog this week when I saw this on facebook.

This picture is saddening and you are faced with the desire to help this child, but instead of giving you a way to directly help the child it just says share and we will help her. That bothers me when I see a heart moving image I want to be able to go out and do something, anything to change whatever the problem is. That is the purpose of rhetoric to call the people to action, but these and other photos like it ask for pretty much inaction. People hop on the bandwagon of these photos sharing it or liking it, but I find it stupid are we really helping this girl or are we clogging our newsfeed with tragedy.

            I would feel much better if the picture told me to directly donate a dollar or to do something that lets me know that what I am doing is actually going to help this girl. I remember seeing other pictures like this one with captions saying “One like is One Prayer” and I am thinking could I just pray for her and is there someone sitting in a room staring at facebook and says wow 17389380 likes let me pray that many times. It really does not make sense and a worse one is where the caption was “Like to Save her life” and I would think is there a doctor sitting outside of the emergency room waiting to receive over 10thousand likes so that he can save the child. It sounds crazy when you actually think about it; it is like all the right forms of rhetoric is used, but they do not ask for a logical form of action.