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

I care about breast cancer but I don't want to parade a private or genuine sentiment on facebook. I've donated to various charities but not posted the confirmation text. You know people do that/ they get the text back from the charity and they post it up, look, I did donate. And it's good that they're donating of course but I sometimes look at face book and just feel how differently people do things.

Some people see fb as a lighthearted place rather than somewhere you want to read about cancer and "doom and gloom". I certainly want to put cancer at the back of my mind, especially since my mum died from it. We worry enough. I do agree we should all know how to check our breasts for example, but fb isn't necessarily the right place to go about it. I think you're getting your tail in a fluff for very little reason.

"Well. I'm obviously unreasonable."

You are indeed. Not only unreasonable, you are being really rather judgemental (about what your friends do or do not choose to post or share on their facebook pages).

"They are the ones filling my feed up with these statuses & private messages telling me what to do."

Why don't you adjust you settings accordingly? You are allowing them to fill your news feed with these. You can hardly choose not to adjust your settings to prevent this, and then complain when the service does exactly what it claims to do.

I don't do armchair activists.

Why are you sharing links hoping someone clicks on it when you could donate your money and time and campaign for things like teaching how to do a breast check, alongside testicle checks, and that they be made compulsory in school health lessons. It could easily be taught alongside the usual lessons on puberty? If we teach kids how to do these checks on a regular basis in school it becomes habit forming and that will significantly reduce the cancer death rates because the chances are it will be picked up earlier.

People are bombarded with 2000+ adverts, status updates, links every single day. Far too many for any normal person with a regular job to keep up with. That I'm not surprised they didn't see, like nor share it.

A link wont change the world. Getting off your arse will.

I would never do any copy & paste share type post, even a 'genuine' one. I hate being told I don't care if I don't do XYZ.

Susanne- I think that was the OPs point.

I scroll pat any status's asking for likes and shares.

worra sounds like the masons with the secrecy thing, balletat least with main stream media tv posters etc the message gets to the masses not just the idiots doing the cryptic messages on fb . but good for you in trying to get the word out there to people and make them aware.

I can kind of see your point OP- sharing a picture about how to check yourself for breast problems is a useful thing to do with Facebook- hopefully people will think hmmm, I didn't know that, I'll check myself.

Raising awareness of an illness/condition only works if it tells people something about it. So how to check your breasts or details how autism can manifest itself. "I am sharing a pink ribbon/ the colour of my underwear" posts do nothing to raise awareness- we all know autism, breast cancer etc exists.

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. Although in all probability most people never thought about the condition or donating, they just thought it was a funny prank.

I don't share anything on face book, those chain letter things annoy me.

Totally befuddled by this op.

I really care about breast cancer but skim past all the self-important "share if you care statuses" on my FB feed. I don't need to be told how serious it is, how to check for lumps, or how to donate to bc charities because I am a reasonably sentient being.

Perhaps the people who are annoying you on your news feed haven't liked your status because you didn't like theirs. I understand some very silly and petty people behave like that on FB.

I never ever share those statuses. They do absolutely zilch to raise awareness for breast cancer and are just fucking annoying. Same with those ones that ask people to share if you know someone with Autism, ADHD, blah blah...and then say"I know 97% of my friends won't". Makes me feel stabby. .
If you REALLY want to raise awareness, share links of how to check your breasts, raise money for charity, or go and do some research about the condition ffs.
And that comes from someone who has family members who have/ have had some of the above conditions. And breathe...

I don't share things on face book or like these type of messages.

I do however donate to charity, attend charity events and volunteer my time.

I don't advertise any of this on face book.

Is anyone not aware of breast cancer? Like a PP, I hide anyone who shares chain statuses or any that ask for "likes" or "amens".

How do you know your Facebook "friends" haven't read your link and subsequently checked themselves? Surely that should be your motivation in posting a link like that.

I don't have anything to do with shared awareness spam on Facebook either.

Now a friend of mine is hosting an entertainment evening with all proceeds going to pancreatic cancer. I'll gladly attend that and donate.

I honestly can't imagine how low the level of intelligence was, of the person who dreamed this up

An 'awareness' campaign that involves secrecy and inbox messages?

Riiiight

The large ones used expensive press adverts. Plus mail shots & tv adverts which of course still happen

No shit?

christ, how ever did charities manage before face shite turned up ?

So you've posted a judgey preachy status ("this is how you REALLY raise awareness"), and are shocked by the lack of response from people who will feel, er, judged by it?

I hate all that FB stuff by the way and ignore - not what I use the site for...