The real reason I love the rainbow profile pic on Facebook

I’m the first person to knock posts that say things like “Like this post to save this child’s life” or some such other bullshit, Both you and I, and the creator of that post know that liking an image on Facebook ain’t going to do a thing to change anybody’s life, health or living circumstance. Most times the posts are created to create traffic to a page – and they are good at that, that’s all they are good for,

Liking the post won’t harm anyone but it certainly won’t help them.

And while changing your photo to a pink ribbon in support of breast cancer awareness won’t cure cancer and making it blue won’t really help kids with autism, there can be nothing wrong in creating awareness amongst your friends of the causes that you support. Of course you’re not going to cure disease or bring about global changes in changing your profile picture but it can’t be a bad thing to show people where your values and interests lie.

There has been a lot of, what seems to me, unnecessary angst about the rainbow avatars taking over Facebook – Faceboook themselves say that more than 26 million users have changed their profile pics to support the marriage equality movement.. There are the people who wont change their avatar until Australia supports marriage equality as if that’s the things that’s going to turn the government’s decision – the reward of xxx on Facebook changing his profile image. There are the people who say changing their photo won’t change the law (and that’s true) but it’s worth remembering you can have a say even if you can’t single handedly change the law, although you should also keep in mind that law makers don’t look at Facebook to get a sense of how they determine legislation.

There are people who feel bullied into changing theirs and people who couldn’t be bothered to even think about it. There are people who can’t work out how to change it and people who worry about when to change it back to the regular old photo.
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It’s your choice. Changing your profile picture ont bring about change , it won’t make people more tolerant and it won’t change the law.

But there is one thing that the proliferation of rainbow colours in my feed has done and it’s been an important reminder.

Maybe it’s just that I am aging and my eyesight isn’t what it once was, but since everyone has the same filter on their photos they all look the same to me – at a glance I can’t distinguish one person from another and isn’t that what it is really all about. Underneath the avatar, the clothes we wear and the skin we inhabit we are all human, we really are no different from one another. Whether you are straight, gay, transgender, black, white, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or any other religion (or no religion at all), whether you are able bodied or not, whatever clothes you choose to wear or friends you choose to hang with, whether you choose to cover your body in tattoos or paint it green; underneath it we are all the same – and that’s what really matters.

That’s why I changed my profile picture. To remind me I am just the same as everyone else and I sincerely hope everyone else wants marriage equality as much as I do.