Facebook is a great way to update your friends on what you’re doing and stay in touch with ones you may not see as much through photos and wall posts. Facebook, however, may not be the best way to find a cure for cancer.

The newest Facebook trend has been posting statuses such as “Everyone has 1000 wishes, but cancer patients only have one. Only 7% of people care about people with cancer so they’ll repost this, but 93% don’t at all, so they won’t.”

I understand that these statuses are on the surface something harmless and thought to help society better understand the suffering of cancer patients. However, it’s quite offensive to assume that 93% people, which is, by the way, an impossible to prove statistic, don’t care that others are killed from cancer.

These “uncaring people” could instead be actually helping through fundraising and donations to the cause rather than copping out and feeling good about themselves for one day by copying and pasting words that really don’t mean anything to their Facebook status.

Now, this one example would not be horrendous if it was the only way people were trying to “help” cure cancer. But in addition to this some girls recently found it necessary to make their status a sexual innuendo which was supposedly for breast cancer awarenes.

Women and girls throughout the Facebook community decided to start their status with the phrase “I like it on the…” and end with wherever their purse was at the given time, for example “I like it on the kitchen counter.”

These sexual innuendos, which had absolutely nothing to do with breast cancer, were incredibly offensive and almost made a joke of the seriousness of breast cancer and the women it affects.

Many girls will argue that they put the status to spread awareness, but at this point in time almost all people know breast cancer exists and an immature status doesn’t help the cause in any way.

Instead of just posting a status on cancer awareness, go the extra mile and research other ways your efforts could be put to use. Because, realistically, will a few words over the internet magically cure cancer, or will scientific research?