To Have Said This

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A woman on my facebook has just posted a 'selfie' of herself with no makeup with the caption 'I am doin this selfie with no make up on to raise awareness for cancer .. if your tagged in this then u have been nominated to do it'

I posted asking how exactly this is raising awareness for cancer.

Have had loads of inboxes of abuse from random people saying I'm evil and obviously don't give a shit about cancer

I think the text BEAT bit has been lost on some. The number's 70099 by the way (googled it to make sure and apparently lots of people are posting 70007 by mistake).

Think carefully before you donate your cash to cancer research. Most of the donations are used for screening and raising the profile of the disease. Less than 10% of the money goes to treatment research and a tiny percentage goes to helping treat people with final stage breast cancer, the drugs and treatments they need are often deemed too expensive but the charities are spending at the other end.

Recent research shows that screening is not as successful as originally thought.

I am hoping my Dsis goes 'bare' literally she never wears makeup but a selfy of her radical mastectomy scar and reconstruction may just make these 'brave' women feel a little stupid.

I've only seen one (so far) this morning, but the person donated to the charity and then put the picture up, and didn't nominate anyone. I guess I can live with that. The rest of my friends seem to have way more dignity and have not joined the craze.

NaturalBlonde - yes, I am in a very similar position indeed. The first one of these to appear on my newsfeed was from my god daughter, whose mum died of cancer last year. She is a lovely, lovely girl, who cared for her mum during her last year or so, and the last thing I want to do is to upset her.

I have been commenting on the pictures thusly - 'If everyone who sees these selfies donates £3 to CRUK, just think how much could be raised'. In light of what Framey said, I am less sure about that - but it does make the point that posting a selfie won't achieve anything, unless you are doing something (ie donating) too.

I want to kill everyone in my feed who has done this. I think they are terrible people.

I saw loads and loads of these selfies in my feed over the last few days and agree re pointlessness. I have now also seen 1 person post a screen shot of their text confirmation for giving £3. seems so cringe and self congratulatory to post this - many give to charity all the time without fanfare and FB posting for a measly three quid but at least it is connected to fundraising and not just the selfie and "your a hotty Hun" etc without even a mention of donating

Fwiw I didn't do the selfie and just donated some money privately without writing anything on FB!!

Saw this post yesterday. I get where you're coming from OP. However, today at work, my colleague who has cancer was looking at them on her FB newsfeed and was really cheered up by them.

I suppose it's a FB thing. You just have to accept that every now and again people are going to do/post stuff that pisses you off.

I posted a message the other dau reminding people to donate and recommending maggies centres and macmillan as they offer support directly. I would say 99% of people posting selfies have also said they've donated. Tempted to post a wigless pic of myself to remind people why they are donating!

Apparently, cancer research has raised 1 million from the selfies.

I hated the idea, but 1 million is good going.

1 million quid in 24 hours, the selfies seem to be working in reminding people to donate!

I have seen 3 mastectomy scar selfies on my newsfeed, it is done in support of the same cause so I don't think it belittles or "shames" the make up free ones!

I'm also enjoying the men's made-up ones which are starting to appear

Um, its raised over £1 million. If people do it properly. On my facebook the majority have posted a link for how to donate and have donated. Many have posted links to how one can check themselves as early detection can massively increase survival chances.

Also, i see nothing wrong with women being kind to other women about how beautiful they look when not wearing make up. Don't understand what sort of a person would have a problem with that.

Many people on mumsnet seem to be using this as an excuse to boast about how they don't wear make up. Which is as tiresome as endless selfies. Good for you if you don't wear make up.

Maybe some people do just want compliments. But i don't care if £1 million has been raised for cancer research.

Cancer Research UK have updated their status on FB to say that the campaign has helped raise over £1m so far, so it is doing some good!

I've had a nomination, and have just posted this status in response, accompanied by the photo:

As I don't tend to wear much make-up anyway, I won't be posting a selfie, as the world doesn't need another picture of my ugly mug circulating on the 'tinterweb...

However, I would like to urge all my FB friends to remember the point behind this campaign, and to text BEAT to 70099 to donate £3 to Cancer Research. As nice as it is to see all these photos of you all in your natural states, and as much as it is a brilliant idea to raise awareness, sadly awareness alone will not help find a cure for cancer.

Please find it in your hearts to donate and make a real difference towards fighting this horrible disease.

Thank you :)