To think that people that post Facebook fundraisers should donate themselves?!

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...are not that charitable if the poster doesn’t donate themselves?

In the last month we have been “invited” to donate to three charities by various ILs. One was a birthday wish (“For my birthday this year I would like you to give money to...) and the other two were just out of the blue.

The birthday fundraiser invited a dozen relatives, but no friends, to send money to a cause they like. We were invited but we don’t normally send a gift or card to this person so I’m waiting to see what DH wants to do. A couple of people have responded so far and today we’ve received a “come on, we need to get this total higher” post that is a bit pushy.

Of the others, one received a donation from Facebook (there must have been some kind of offer on, don’t know, Facebook donated £5) and the other received nothing. Both these people berated their Facebook friends for being “mean” even though they did not donate themselves. The guy who got the Facebook donation has been convicted of fraud so it was never going to be a goer for him!

I read that as they should donate themselves rather than should donate money themselves. I had a good chuckle.

Racecardriver

It does read like that!

Facebook has just got out of hand. Time it was shut down.

Facebook encourages people to post a birthday fundraiser and I think they give a donation. It appears to be advertised as “raise money for charity at no cost to yourself”. So it’s not surprising that people don’t donate themselves.

TortoiseLettuce Oddlybthe one that was billed as a birthday fundraiser wasn’t the one that got the Facebook donation. The other wasn’t billed as one but got one. I have no idea of the latter’s birthdate so maybe it was and just didn’t say.

No wonder they are all popping up if that’s Facebook’s line.

Yanbu it's irritating to the extreme. When it was my bday, FB popped up saying they would donate £5 for me, I thought great! Started going through it and it was telling me to post to my friends and family begging. I decided to just give a fiver to the charity myself to avoid it all.

FB doesn't donate, but they don't charge any fees either like other platforms. Pros and Cons to it

Igotthemheavyboobs Ah right, didn’t know Facebook was doing that. It can’t be everyone though because our family haven’t received anything mentioning it.

Settings > Notifications > On Facebook > Fundraisers > Select 'All Off'

GladAllOver Out of hand in what way?

VanillaSayce that’ll be whyvthen. We probably don’t have anything turned on.

When it was my bday, FB popped up saying they would donate £5 for me

Yes me too. Sounds great! Then you click on it and it creates begging messages on your page. So I deleted it.

It comes up like this. And when you click to claim the £5 it creates begging posts on your page.

That makes sense now. The people who are doing it are not exactly the types to have a charity list normally!

It's fine yo send to people who would otherwise send a present and I don't mind when people post it generally on Facebook (I'll sometimes donate even if I wouldn't normally send a gift) but YANBU that if they want to get the total up they should donate themselves rather than being pushy with relatives who haven't budgeted for a gift anyway.

I receive these from people I barely know. I think it goes to all of your friends. I'll do it for someone I normally buy a present for but not otherwise - I'd have to completely rebudget.

YANBU. Its like when you see these millionaire celebrities telling us to send money here there and everywhere. Well I hope they're putting their hand in their pockets.
If you're going to Preach to get any respect you've got to practice.

Barbie222 you must be able to choose who it goes to because the birthday one I mentioned was sent to selected relatives, no friends. Interestingly she only sent it to relatives on her father’s side of the family as she will know that her mother’s side are the most uncharitable people ever!