It is doubtful that the interactive soccer game “Don’t Be An Asterisk” will teach children about dangers of steroids

The anti-steroid campaign “Don’t Be An Asterisk” was formed to educate people about administration of steroids, about dangerous aspects connected with performance-enhancing substances within and outsides sports in order to promote discontinuing administrating these products.
But ”Don’t Be An Asterisk” was in negligence during certain period of time. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and Ad Council make the decision to reinvigorate activities of this campaign. It was made a decision to create a new gateway page for the website and to change the name from the “Don’t Be an Asterisk” to the “Play Asterisk Free”.
The new website for “Play Asterisk Free” has links and leads to the original “Don’t Be Asterisk” which has remained uncharged for more than 2 years. This site encourages the visitors to visit another new page that is on Facebook. Thus, they can play asterisk free there. The same page will be created on Twitter with the same name “Play Asterisk Free”. Thus, the popular social media will promote spreading the messages of the anti-steroid.
The original site DontBeAnAsterisk.com includes an interactive soccer game. Players have to score goals avoiding the asterisks. The asterisks are anabolic steroids. If the interactive players don’t avoid the asterisks, their bodies become much more muscular.
Although the game has been thought out to make perception among children that steroids are unsafe, the results are turned to be opposite. Children find it funny to fail avoiding asterisks and to watch how muscles of the interactive players become significantly enhanced. Although the game is still available on the website, it is unlikely that it will be able to teach kids that steroids should not be used.
The principal goal of this campaign is to teach children that a consumer of steroids is not a fair individual; he\she is “fake”, a “joke” and a “poser”.