When will the Ice Bucket Challenge fad pass?

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Just deleted my FB account (was the push i needed) due to this sh1t
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Not impressed, right thing to do or overeaction?

If you’re really asking then yes, massive over reaction IMO.

http://newsthump.com/2014/08/26/ebola-bucket-challenge-yet-to-really-take-off/

In Gaza, they’re doing the Rubble Bucket Challenge:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/rubble-bucket-challenge-launched-in-solidarity-with-people-in-gaza-whose-homes-have-been-destroyed-during-israel-conflict-9689809.html

It’ll be interesting to see the post challenge analysis of this.

Wonder if there’ll be a lull in donations as folk have done their bit already? Curious as to whether some charities will also lose out as a result of not being ‘in focus’

I’m pretty sure you were a STW hall monitor once.

You, sir, have me confused with a grown up. I’ve never had a position of responsibility here.

Wonder if there’ll be a lull in donations as folk have done their bit already?

Maybe, but I guess you’d see the same thing after any successful charity fundraising.

If you want to get into the ethics then an earnest friend posted this on Facebook:
Ice Bucket Challenge Ethics

Funny how folk are different ….

My kids… who just happen to be 3 and 6 … did their challenge this morning

Bless ’em … I didnt really need to pour water over they heads its was raining cat n dogs as we did it.

They got their own back by my nominating me… and then we all jumped in the bath together to warm up.

Hope they remember a silly wet morning we had once.

Ooh the language on that one 😀

FunkyDunc: that vid is the one I posted earlier that Drac pulled.
Probably not a good plan to repost it.

FunkyDunc CountZero: that vid is the one I posted earlier that Drac pulled.
Probably not a good plan to repost

I saw a good one this morning . Irish lass doesnt like it , runs off at full belt and smashes face square into the washing pole arm ( not a spinny one ) knocks her clean off her feet.

Was a belter

I just completed the “challenge” this very evening. Except I did it in the shower. With warm water. From the shower. And donated £200 to a cancer charity as mum just got told she was 5 years clear from her last of 3 rounds with cancer. Anyone nominating me will get told to **** off a polite “no thanks”.

Although I don’t know if it counts as charity as I didn’t film myself and plaster it all over Facebook. Does it count?

The whole campaign is a form of bullying

I’ve had a long hard think about this.

As someone who was systematically bullied for a number of years in his schooldays, I have a zero tolerance policy towards bullying and will fight the most minor of bullying on a point of principle.

I think that calling this ‘bullying’ trivialises bullying, outside of a schoolground environment. One adult nominates another, that nominated adult can then decline the challenge. They may then choose to make a donation, or may not.

I’ve been receiving messages urging me to do things for quite a while now. “No” is a perfectly acceptable answer.

The ice bucket campaign has, perhaps accidentally, raised a lot of money for an otherwise neglected charity. It’s not for me, but I can’t condemn it.

I go away for 2 weeks, and come back to an fb feed full of vids and nominations, but jack all about a charity to support.

Since one has just seemingly earned a shedload of dosh, I’ll gladly make a donation to a totally different cause. In about 3 months time when the fad is over. Don’t want my donation linked to a social media coercion.

And I’ll save the ice for something on the rocks tyvm.

More amusingly, Spanish TV reports that a Belgian living in Spain is now in hospital after he managed to persuade his mate to use his firefighting plane to drop a load of water on his head to do a more spectacular version of the challenge. The muppet didn’t realise that nearly two tons of water hitting you at 200kph might not be the best of ideas…

Oh, right. I did look back through the thread, and couldn’t see it. Network was being a bit slow, though.
Sorry ’bout that.
Still makes me giggle watching it, though!

I’ve only been aware of this in the last week or so and apparently I’ve just been nominated to do it 😯

At least this latest craze has raised a lot of money but things like this are the reason i don’t even have a wasteofspacebook account as i bet a big percentage of people just do it for attention and haven’t donated a penny to charity 😆

Will probably just ignore it and donate a few £££ to the motor neurone disease charity as the owner of the company I work for died from it just over 3 years ago 🙁

This looks like a much more fun way of raising money for charity.
http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/08/japanese-porn-stars-want-you-to-squeeze-their-boobs-to-stop-aids/
Where do I get to participate?
Maybe they could do a high-street ‘chugger’ type thing…

Don’t want my donation linked to a social media coercion.

The charity won’t care either way. Not sure why you would either.

Seems a really weird thing to be thinking about.

…. things like this are the reason i don’t even have a wasteofspacebook account as i bet a big percentage of people just do it for attention and haven’t donated a penny to charity

So what?

Loads of people have donated so what difference does it make. And loads of people are now aware of the charity, and making donations, because of those “attention seekers”

Will probably just ignore it and donate a few £££ to the motor neurone disease charity as the owner of the company I work for died from it just over 3 years ago

Make sure you let them know you haven’t got a Facebook account,

Apparently it’s important to differentiate between “genuine” donations and “attention seeking” ones.

With all this water being thrown about, I think my next charitable donation will be to a charity assisting with access to clean drinking water in all poorer regions of the globe.

Nealglover has done it and not donated 😆

Will probably just ignore it and donate a few £££ to the motor neurone disease charity as the owner of the company I work for died from it just over 3 years ago

Still had the desired effect then.

With all this water being thrown about, I think my next charitable donation will be to a charity assisting with access to clean drinking water in all poorer regions of the globe.

Good for you.

My lad just got challenged to do it. I asked him what it was for. He told me it was started by some bloke called Al. 🙂

He’s happy enough to do it, and it fills up the school holidays, I guess.

For some people – not many I grant you – it is a mild form of bullying, because they really don’t want to do it, or donate money to that particular cause, but fear being mocked by the people who nominated them. Not everyone is self-confident enough to say no to peer pressure.

Lets have done and bring back ducking stools , that should speed it up !!!

My reticence about these viral “awareness raising” campaigns is the apparent lack of awareness being raised. What proportion of participants and observers have genuinely become more aware of MND since this started and what difference does it make? I know of people who have participated who thought it was all about Macmillan for example.

As for the bullying angle, it is a very public request for charitable support that many people will feel pressure to say yes to. If bullying is the wrong definition I’d need my thesaurus for a similar word. Take away the nomination angle and will the same number of people still participate?

We all get asked to donate to a variety of different charities and – speaking for myself – I like to use my own personal experiences to cherry pick who gets my money.

Call it what it is; it’s a fund-raising campaign. I might start a new campaign tagging people on Facebook to see what they know about MND that they didn’t know before.

I bet it’s more than it was before it started.

What proportion of participants and observers have genuinely become more aware of MND since this started

Dunno about proportion but the ”Most visited on English Wikipedia this month” page at WikiTrends reports “Ice Bucket Challenge” at number 4 with 4,063,844 views and “Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” at number 10 with 2,703,178.
They were number 1 and 2 for most visited this week[/url].

I think if 2.7 million people were interested enough to seek out a Wikipedia article about it then you have to say it has been pretty successful in raising awareness.

I know of people who have participated who thought it was all about Macmillan for example.

That would be because Macmillan jumped on the bandwagon and bought up all the Google AdWords coincidentally also have an ice bucket challenge.

As for the bullying angle, it is a very public request for charitable support that many people will feel pressure to say yes to.

So as I jokingly suggested earlier is it any different to a sponsor form being passed round the office or the enforced hilarity of a corporate red nose day?

We all get asked to donate to a variety of different charities and – speaking for myself – I like to use my own personal experiences to cherry pick who gets my money.

Speaking for myself I didn’t know much about MND before this campaign and I didn’t realise it was so poorly funded. I do now.

Well I donated, not doing the challenge though, ferk that. 😉

None of the videos filling up my feed make a particularly obvious link to any specific cause or charity, to the extent that I thought it was just a slightly less harmless viral bullying than the challenge your friends to drink alcohol to extreme craze.

The only one that does mentions a totally different cause.

I’m sure there is a bit more awareness, but there are a lot more people having fun caving in to a challenge than promoting a charity from what I can see.

At least put direct click to donate links in the text if it supports a cause, in a position where it’s visible on the feed, and not only if you click the video or whatever.

I’ve been nominated, twice, by friends on facebook, (who are actual good friends). I’m not doing it, I give to charity as and when I want to, and generally to cancer charities as cancer has greatly impacted my family.

I’m just ignoring the facebook stuff, I don’t want to do it, so I’m not, and won’t give in to peer pressure.

None of the videos filling up my feed make a particularly obvious link to any specific cause or charity

Try these two then:

At least put direct click to donate links in the text if it supports a cause, in a position where it’s visible on the feed, and not only if you click the video or whatever.

You might want to point that one out to your Facebook friends.

So as I jokingly suggested earlier is it any different to a sponsor form being passed round the office or the enforced hilarity of a corporate red nose day?

I think so yes. I don’t have dozens of friends and family waiting for me to say yes or no when someone asks me for sponsorship in the office.

At least put direct click to donate links in the text if it supports a cause, in a position where it’s visible on the feed, and not only if you click the video or whatever.

MNDA suggest that you post the video on their Facebook page. That way you are linking to the association for which you are raising money as well as keeping the viral element going.

afaict none have posted to a charity FB page. none call it “ALS/MND Ice Bucket Challenge”. all (that I saw – I cba to scroll back the entire 2 weeks) just have “Here’s my Ice Bucket Challenge – I nominate…”

either I have special friends that are forgetful, don’t know how to post to a page, and expect me to mind read, or shedloads of fad followers have done the same. I’d guess it started off with good intentions, then the fad bit took over from the support this cause bit.

found out the cause by reading this thread.

funnily enough, event this thread only refers to Ice Bucket Challenge too.

I think so yes. I don’t have dozens of friends and family waiting for me to say yes or no when someone asks me for sponsorship in the office.

On the sponsor form in the office, everyone from your boss to your subordinates can see if you’ve given and exactly how much.

On Facebook you could quite easily give nothing and no one would know.

MNDA suggest that you post the video on their Facebook page.

Personally I didn’t do that, mostly because it was a private video for the amusement of my friends not for the entire world and I wouldn’t want people accusing me of just being an attention-seeking media whore (oops.. too late).

When I posted the video I did include a comment saying “Text ‘ICED55’ followed by your donation amount to 70070 to give to the #MND #IceBucketChallenge.” as did most of my friends.

On the sponsor form in the office

What?! Like on a notice board or something? How quaint. It’s all about JustGiving pages in our workplace these days.

On Facebook you could quite easily give nothing and no one would know.

True. These viral campaigns have a life-cycle and I reckon this one has reached the stage where it’s all about participating in the challenge rather than raising money or awareness.

It’s all about JustGiving pages in our workplace these days.

We’re a software development company – we don’t trust technology 😀

I reckon this one has reached the stage where it’s all about participating in the challenge rather than raising money or awareness.

Really? The JustGiving page for MNDa Ice Bucket Challenge[/url] is at £2 million now – it was at £1 million yesterday.

I think money is still being raised!