To find tales of Good Deeds on FB quite unpleasant?

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I'm on a FB page for teachers and there's a post currently running about a teacher who has made welcome packs for refugees. The poster goes into detail about how all the refugees cried and were so touched by the children's kindness... They even said 'thank you' in English.

I know that it was a kind thing to do- it just smacks of rich Victorians going out to visit the poor as a lesson.

Have Syrians not gone through enough without being used as a tool to get 1.4k FB 'likes'?! Or am I mega cynical?

A relative of my DH is fond of doing this, giving £5 and a Greggs sausage roll to a homeless person then taking a selfie sitting with the person and posting it all over FB with a comment that the person was 'actually really interesting and a top bloke'. I don't think it's a kind act at all. He's just paid £5 and the price of a sausage roll to have dozens of simpering idiots tell him how kind and generous he is. And he really isn't. It's egotistical and demeaning to the homeless person.

Good on the optician collecting the glasses though. I think that's completely different.

Those kinds of posts are cringeworthy.

Yanbu. It's great if it's done to raise awareness but I can't abide the virtue signallers. These homeless selfies are horrendous

Lady Bountiful doing some grandstanding. Ugh.

I hate it too. Can't abide the original message and then all the sycophants telling them what a great person they are.

I saw a post where someone had called for an ambulance for an elderly person. It was accompanied by a photo of the ill person lying in their hospital bed.

I think if people really must post about their good deeds, they should at least respect the fact that the other person has a right to some privacy when they are clearly so vulnerable.

The homeless photo is horrific. There's an awful video on YouTube actually a couple where some guy give homeless people money... secretly follows them with a video to see what they do with it!! Then pretends to have a sick kid and asked for help. The comments are full of idiots saying it's a great message that homeless people humans basically. Self serving shite.

Anyway back to the op... she might genuinely be trying to get people on board too? If not, yanbu.

I get the 'we should all give/highlighting the plight of refugees'
I believe in the you should give with your right hand, and your left hand should not know...as in, don't do it for the praise!
If you are helping someone less fortunate let them maintain their pride.
My father once taught me this lesson with a gentleman who could not afford a juice drink at a shop, he was counting out change, my father approached him and said he had dropped a bigger note on the floor, saying it was not dropped by my father so it was his. Thus maintaining the man's dignity, especially in front of his children.
Selfies with giving homeless person money??!? What is the world coming to!

This is so awful

That's a lovely thing your dad did bee

Theres a huge difference between cdtaylornats optician announcing he can recycle reading glasses, and someone humiliating a homeless person or refugee to make themselves look good.

There's a woman in my area who had some success on a minor talent show about fifteen years ago and became somewhat of a local celebrity.

Her need for attention is breathtaking. She does all the 'selfie with a homeless person' routine but her newest one is to post a story about being in a shop, sticking up for a staff member against a rude customer and then posting either a photo of the staff member or alleged rude customer.

She doesn't even give the homeless person any food or anything. Clearly just experience of meeting her is enough.

The huns absolutely love her, naturally.