I have been accepted on to Masterchef

[birdladyfromhomealone]

What is this going around on face book?
I have in the last 2 days had two "friends" saying they have been accepted onto Masterchef.
One is a professional Caterer and I thought you had to be an amateur chef to apply?
The other is a self-confessed train wreck in the kitchen
So is it some sort of face book thing? or AIBU to think these two friends can't possibly be going on Master chef?

So glad i am not the only one who hates these things. Thought i was just being my miserable self.

On my feed at the moment is a picture of the person with 'accepted' as a status. What shite is this meant to be 'raising awareness' for.

My friend posted this a few days ago. I realised it was bollocks when she subsequently described something sweet as a delicious savoury snack. I didn't realise it was an awareness thing though. She didn't mention raising awareness for cancer at all. I commented on it and didn't receive a PM explaining. I just thought she was having us on for a laugh.

What a pointless exercise

My awesome friend just got an NSD from cancer (no sign of disease) she would rip you a new arsehole if you posted this shite...

On my feed at the moment is a picture of the person with 'accepted' as a status. What shite is this meant to be 'raising awareness' for.

No idea but I am seeing it too - black and white photos with "challenge accepted".

Facebook is doing my head in at the moment with everything being either a 'challenge' or a cryptic status. You're not being mysterious - you're just being a twat.

Shit, my friend posted the pregnant one ages ago and I never heard it was for this! She never put anything else up about it. I'd always thought that was a bit weird, but later assumed she'd lost the baby. I was thinking the other day about how sad that was for her (she's not close enough for me to raise the subject).

FFS.

a few years ago a colleague of mine sent a group message telling us all to do one of these things... I think it was the "I'm moving to X for Y months" thing and had all this stuff about how it would cure breast cancer and you mustn't let on to any males.

I replied (quite grumpily) saying that it wasn't going to raise awareness, men can get breast cancer too so why should they be excluded, and that if you want to "cure cancer" you should instead post about the signs to look for and/or donate to charity.

Cue about 10 people telling me how I obviously just don't care about people dying of cancer (these weren't people I know, just random friends of the poster)

MollyRedskirts It's bloody 'awareness' bollocks

Well now YOU are the one BVVU Molly!
What is this "cancer"? I for one have never heard of it, or had anyone I know and love be ill or die from it. This sort of campaign is vital to inform people of such a rare and unheard-of disease.

I KNOW. I am so terribly sorry. I should have recognised that no-one has ever heard of cancer, ever.

Weebarra, I'm five years on from my breast cancer diagnosis. Can I give you a 'Yay, we survived! hi-five?

Luckily only one or two people on my Facebook are prone to this sort of thing and I think I've just about educated the stupidness out of them.

very glad I didn't comment on their status then :)
Master chef - breast cancer wheres the link.
My mum died of breast cancer.
To the person that asked? They are not friends of mine in RL but someone I met at a networking meeting and someone who I met at a coffee morning.
Just checked one of them has now deleted the post.

Yeah so their post is hardly likely to 'raise your awareness' of breast cancer.

Some people .

Sad you lost you mum X

Why do none of them wonder how a top secret chain letter can raise awareness of anything? It seems so obvious - what's wrong with them?

There's a new one, challenge accepted. I don't get it .

I was
Wondering about the challenge accepted thing too

I hate these challenge things on FB so much. Not just the awareness ones but all of them (post 7 pictures to show how much you appreciate being a mother/partner/etc etc yawn yawn). I must seem so rude as I always ignore them. My friend did the Masterchef one and I private messaged her to ask if it was an awareness thingy cos I felt sorry for all the people who were congratulating her and I got 'the message' back. Aaaaaargh!