To think that if my Facebook "friends" really cared about Breast Cancer Awareness they would have liked & shared my status?

If you want to do something about an issue don't fb obsess it. Use social media but don't let it use you. It's just a tool it's not action.

Any status update requiring me to publicly declare my awareness of or sympathy to ANY cause gets immediately hidden and the poster goes in the Cunt Book.

THIS...

YABU

Thanks balletgirlmum, I've just been back and looked and yes that's the one.
However, this particular person is positioning herself so that the camera gawps straight down her ample cleavage. She does loads of posing and pouting beforehand.
I guess I'm not really sure what this "raising awareness" actually achieves if nothing else is changing.

All does my head in. I'm finding the 'my mom says I won't get likes cause I'm not beautiful' ones particularly foul at the moment.

I scroll past all that shit.

I fucking hate breast cancer 'awareness' for many reasons. FWIW I have a family history of BC and a higher risk before I am flamed.

• Women are more likely to die of heart disease, lung cancer and bowel cancer - how many of us are aware of that?

• Who isn't 'aware' of BC these days? And who is aware that 90% of lumps and changes in your breasts are benign? Ensuring women get those checked out - fine. Terrifying women needlessly - not so much.

• Focus on young women when they are least likely to be affected. So we have generations of young women who are terrified of breast changes and a disease that is very unlikely to affect them and generations of older women who are not getting the focus they need.

• There are 10+ different types of breast cancers - and they have different prognosis and different symptoms

• Horrible girliness and pinkification

I get where you're coming from, OP. Personally I never share anything like that, but there are plenty of people who do - it does seem a bit of a double standard if they post the vague stuff but not the stuff that's actually helpful.

I wouldn't get too worked up about it though. Hopefully your post might have prompted someone to check themselves or do some research.

As I recall lots of people did the Ice challenge for the attention and "forgot" to donate to the cause

As for what it was for it doesn't help the Americans have a different name for Motor Neuron Disease or that as a previous poster pointed out the ice bucket challenge is nothing like having the disease, just as shaving your head to raise money for cancer is nothing like forcing yourself to do it because it will come out anyway or pulling out great clumps whilst you feel like shit from the medicine being used to make you better.

One of my FB friends is currently doing 22 days worth of 22 press ups. Not really sure what it's for as I scroll past each day.

Seems to consist of her posing and shoving flappy tits towards the camera.

What I hate is they all say 'do not share but copy and paste' why does it matter? I don't share them anyway as they piss me off.

Nope. I didn't even participate in it either and I can't remember what it was in aid for

All I can remember is the little girl swearing

*We were on a London theatre trip during the ice bucket stuff. The theatre's raised thousands from cast & crew doing the challenge & collecting post show.
Well that's entirely different. Raising actual money for a charity is different to this wooly "raising awareness". Seriously, can anyone remember what the ice bucket challenge was for without google?

From the OP I was paying a link to a website showing you how to check your breasts for lumps etc
Are you linking to that weird charity thing where you have to pay a specified donation to be told how to spot signs of breast cancer?- because that to me is a very uncaring approach to breast cancer.

On the other hand this is a bloody good idea.
campaign for things like teaching how to do a breast check, alongside testicle checks, and that they be made compulsory in school health lessons.

Wasn't the ice bucket challenge for Motor Neuron Disease?

How is that like having cold water poured on you?

Most people who did that challenge didn't even donate.

Please copy and paste this as your status if you know someone, or have heard of someone who knows someone that may know someone who knows anyone. If you don’t know anyone, or even if you’ve heard of anyone who doesn’t know anyone that doesn’t know someone, then still copy this. It’s important to spread the message. Oh, and the hearts.

I don't think any of them do it because they care about breast cancer awareness, they do it for attention.

This.

There isn't much about your much more sensible post OP that will get them the attention they want/need.

Hinting about the colour of their underwear or not wearing pants or where they like to have sex etc is more likely to get "likes", or photoshopped pics of them being ever so 'brave' by not wearing makeup and all the "OMG you're so beautiful huni xxxxx" comments.

Sad, but that's where we are these days.

The ice bucket challenge was slightly different as it did raise awareness of a little heard of condition and gave people a (very small) glimpse of what it was like.

Did it? What was it to raise awareness of? I can't remember.

Maybe I'm very cynical but I think the vast majority did it for laughs and the likes on Facebook.

I'm afraid I refuse to share chainmail style Facebook posts. That doesn't mean I don't care about breast cancer or the friends who post them, I just don't like my news feed being clogged up with mountains of stuff that I have to trawl through to see what my mates are up to.

I absolutely loathe the entire repost this and if you don't it means you don't care. Of course we bloody care but it does nothing to stop said illness. I'd rather donate than post for bloody likes which is sad and desperate inmho.