The federal financial aid agency known as FAFSA today tweeted an odd photo of a woman seated on an airplane with the caption, “Help me. I’m poor.”
If this is you, then you better fill out your FAFSA: http://t.co/uEW9x3D9YL pic.twitter.com/4avPvRvL7w
— Federal Student Aid (@FAFSA) June 25, 2014
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is required for anyone seeking financial aid from US colleges and tens of millions of students and parents fill one out online every year. The FAFSA offices were closed late Tuesday but the tweet did come from the agency’s official Twitter account. Twitter followers were not amused.
This is really offensive. I don't think they were trying to be though; I think they were trying to seem trendy with "the college kids" by posting a meme. But it came off very, very wrong.