Memes like this seem to be mainly about people backpatting each other and getting to show off how what a wonderful person they are in a very big way. The cause seems secondary a lot of the time.
That was the point, wasn't it. They get to show off and alsa gets money.
I didn't even know it was for charity until I saw a news article on Bill Gates doing it. Until then it has just been drunk people having ice water poured over their heads on facebook. No mention of any charity or donations.
I've just been challenged...for the 3rd time. Each time I get challenged I ask the challenger why they did it. NONE of them knew why they were doing it, apart from "well it's funny".
As the previous poster said, no mention of any charity or donations or what it was for. As has been the case for almost all the ice bucket challenges I've seen.
I suspect that most people do not even know, it's suppose to raise donations to a charity, at all.
So, no. I have not, and will not be doing it. I'd rather just quietly donate to a charity of my choice, than shout to the rooftops.
Absolutely. It's disgraceful, and also a bit scary seeing all these videos of "omg that's cold aren't I such a good person cuz I did it for ermmm..charteeee!"
I absolutely think there's a lot who are just doing this because they want fit in with the rest of the world that's doing it. They want to be part of that group that's following each other. Giving money to charity is good, it's just the "I'm doing this because they've done it, no matter how ridiculous and stupid it is" thing that I can't understand.
The only person I thought looked even remotely funny doing this challenge was President Obama's predecessor - George W Bush! Would love to see President Obama try it! :cool:
That was the point, wasn't it. They get to show off and alsa gets money.
They only get money if people actually donate, of which most do not even know "why" they're doing it.
Doing an ice bucket challenge on Facebook doesn't get them a single penny/cent and certainly does not raise awareness of the charity if nobody actually mentions the charity!!
He's declined, sensible guy. Made a donation instead.
It's far too bloody cold here to even think about it.
I would have gladly done it during my visit to Warsaw, Poland a few weeks ago, as the temperature there and around Poland in general felt unbearable at times! :eek:
Doing an ice bucket challenge on Facebook doesn't get them a single penny/cent and certainly does not raise awareness of the charity if nobody actually mentions the charity!!
I don't know how to go about counting the videos on facebook but youtube give 790,000 when you type "ice bucket challenge".
From the most recent figure ($41m) in the thread, that works out at about $52 per video.
Are videos posted on facebook e.g. embedded from (and therefore listed on) youtube or is there a completely separate total to add in?
If it has worked for publicity that's a good thing, I'm just waiting for the first arrest caused by the coercion of an unwilling participant - though one might argue this is the entire premise of the original challenge itself...
It's not a challenge I'm up for, but a friend of mine posted a video of her doing it...with a thimble. As she said, nobody specified the size of the bucket.
I just wish that a dementia charity would be the focus of such an successful fundraising campaign. My mother in law has advanced dementia (weeks to live now) and was fastracked (their actual words) from the ward in a local NHS hospital to a care home as she was "bed blocking" (again, their words). Yep, why should she take a bed in an NHS system that she worked full time to pay into, as did her husband. The attitude to the elderly with or without dementia/Alzheimers is horrendous, just horrendous.
It's not a challenge I'm up for, but a friend of mine posted a video of her doing it...with a thimble. As she said, nobody specified the size of the bucket.
I just wish that a dementia charity would be the focus of such an successful fundraising campaign. My mother in law has advanced dementia (weeks to live now) and was fastracked (their actual words) from the ward in a local NHS hospital to a care home as she was "bed blocking" (again, their words). Yep, why should she take a bed in an NHS system that she worked full time to pay into, as did her husband. The attitude to the elderly with or without dementia/Alzheimers is horrendous, just horrendous.
They only get money if people actually donate, of which most do not even know "why" they're doing it.
Doing an ice bucket challenge on Facebook doesn't get them a single penny/cent and certainly does not raise awareness of the charity if nobody actually mentions the charity!!
How do you know most don't know why they're doing it? All of my friends on Facebook who've posted videos have mentioned the charity and the ALS charity itself has raised more than 50 million dollars from more than a million new donors since they started tracking the campaign's progress in late July, which is I believe more that double what they received in the entire previous year.
Idiots will be idiots no matter what they're doing. In fact I've seen incurious curmudgeons in these threads complain they don't know what the campaign is for despite links in the threads and and google at their fingertips. But despite them I don't see how anyone can argue the campaign hasn't been a huge success for ALS charities.
They only get money if people actually donate, of which most do not even know "why" they're doing it.
Doing an ice bucket challenge on Facebook doesn't get them a single penny/cent and certainly does not raise awareness of the charity if nobody actually mentions the charity!!
Where are you getting these crazy ideas from?
Like most people don't know why they are doing it?
There are many videos saying ALS, alsa, I'm donating.
Are people who follow Facebook too stupid to look up an acronym?
Actually I was going to refer to a previous post I made in this thread, then got paranoid because it looked like it had been culled, then realised that this is actually a completely different thread but on the same subject.
The one I *thought* I was looking at => The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - Good Idea or Not?
So I wonder if others are also unsure.
At first there was no explanation in that thread as to what ALS is, and the first reference to motor neurone disease was my tentative suggestion that they might be the same, but all I got in response to that was a somewhat haughty order to read the links and a pasted description of ALS which again didn't appear to mention motor neurones and my implicit question didn't get a civil answer.
All anyone had to say was 'ALS is the US name for motor neurone disease' and possibly also 'ALSA is a US charity'.
If people want support for something it's a good idea to be clear on what it is, and if there are those who don't know, then it's also a good idea to be clear, and certainly without some of the attitude that seems to appear from time to time.
On the one hand this is the US-based ALS charity, but what if one gives to the UK-based MND charity instead? Would that be wrong, even though they are working on the same thing? Is the US organisation linked with the UK one, or is the UK one going to suffer because everybody will now think they'e done their bit for that particular cause?
To be clear, giving (time/effort/money) to charity is a good thing, my concern right now is to avoid the inevitable crucifixion for daring to ask questions that I think aren't particularly contentious.
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That was the point, wasn't it. They get to show off and alsa gets money.
Altruism is dead.
As the previous poster said, no mention of any charity or donations or what it was for. As has been the case for almost all the ice bucket challenges I've seen.
I suspect that most people do not even know, it's suppose to raise donations to a charity, at all.
So, no. I have not, and will not be doing it. I'd rather just quietly donate to a charity of my choice, than shout to the rooftops.
I absolutely think there's a lot who are just doing this because they want fit in with the rest of the world that's doing it. They want to be part of that group that's following each other. Giving money to charity is good, it's just the "I'm doing this because they've done it, no matter how ridiculous and stupid it is" thing that I can't understand.
It's far too bloody cold here to even think about it.
Doing an ice bucket challenge on Facebook doesn't get them a single penny/cent and certainly does not raise awareness of the charity if nobody actually mentions the charity!!
I would have gladly done it during my visit to Warsaw, Poland a few weeks ago, as the temperature there and around Poland in general felt unbearable at times! :eek:
I'm glad Obama didn't join in with the latest daft craze.
I bet George Bush wouldn't have done it, was he still president.
he saw God
http://www.twitch.tv/manvsgame/c/4963323
From the most recent figure ($41m) in the thread, that works out at about $52 per video.
Are videos posted on facebook e.g. embedded from (and therefore listed on) youtube or is there a completely separate total to add in?
If it has worked for publicity that's a good thing, I'm just waiting for the first arrest caused by the coercion of an unwilling participant - though one might argue this is the entire premise of the original challenge itself...
I just wish that a dementia charity would be the focus of such an successful fundraising campaign. My mother in law has advanced dementia (weeks to live now) and was fastracked (their actual words) from the ward in a local NHS hospital to a care home as she was "bed blocking" (again, their words). Yep, why should she take a bed in an NHS system that she worked full time to pay into, as did her husband. The attitude to the elderly with or without dementia/Alzheimers is horrendous, just horrendous.
That's a bet you'll never know the result of.
A thimble's not a bucket.
How do you know most don't know why they're doing it? All of my friends on Facebook who've posted videos have mentioned the charity and the ALS charity itself has raised more than 50 million dollars from more than a million new donors since they started tracking the campaign's progress in late July, which is I believe more that double what they received in the entire previous year.
Idiots will be idiots no matter what they're doing. In fact I've seen incurious curmudgeons in these threads complain they don't know what the campaign is for despite links in the threads and and google at their fingertips. But despite them I don't see how anyone can argue the campaign hasn't been a huge success for ALS charities.
Where are you getting these crazy ideas from?
Like most people don't know why they are doing it?
There are many videos saying ALS, alsa, I'm donating.
Are people who follow Facebook too stupid to look up an acronym?
Don't answer that.:D
On ALL the videos I've seen, (on my Facebook feed) not one has mentioned ALS/ALSA or even mentioning the donation.
Maybe it's a UK thing, because on the US ones, there seems to be more of the "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge" rather than just "Ice bucket challenge"?
Actually I was going to refer to a previous post I made in this thread, then got paranoid because it looked like it had been culled, then realised that this is actually a completely different thread but on the same subject.
The one I *thought* I was looking at => The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - Good Idea or Not?
So I wonder if others are also unsure.
At first there was no explanation in that thread as to what ALS is, and the first reference to motor neurone disease was my tentative suggestion that they might be the same, but all I got in response to that was a somewhat haughty order to read the links and a pasted description of ALS which again didn't appear to mention motor neurones and my implicit question didn't get a civil answer.
All anyone had to say was 'ALS is the US name for motor neurone disease' and possibly also 'ALSA is a US charity'.
If people want support for something it's a good idea to be clear on what it is, and if there are those who don't know, then it's also a good idea to be clear, and certainly without some of the attitude that seems to appear from time to time.
On the one hand this is the US-based ALS charity, but what if one gives to the UK-based MND charity instead? Would that be wrong, even though they are working on the same thing? Is the US organisation linked with the UK one, or is the UK one going to suffer because everybody will now think they'e done their bit for that particular cause?
To be clear, giving (time/effort/money) to charity is a good thing, my concern right now is to avoid the inevitable crucifixion for daring to ask questions that I think aren't particularly contentious.
If you look at the videos on this thread it is mentioned.
Aren't UK celeb videos posted on Facebook?
It became famous fairly quickly.
Even or especially as far away as Australia and New Zealand.
I'm seeing Steven Gerrard among others and he clearly says ALS.