to wish people wouldn't post birthday fundraisers on Facebook

[Lludmilla]

Yeah, I know people can just ignore, etc etc. But that can be hard, and guilt-inducing, and there are a lot of these fundraisers nowadays, and times are tight. There's just something so entitled about that 'For my birthday this year, I'm asking for donations' wording on FB that really gets on my wick too.

AIBU to say that if someone's fundraising it would be a lot more subtle to create a Justgiving page and share it with whoever they choose to, rather than effectively asking every single person on their FB friend list for money on their birthday which is far more likely to make people feel duty-bound to give money they may not have?

I think it’s really wanky to ask for money on your birthday, charity or not. YANBU. I never give.

I don't mind them. I just see it as raising awareness of a cause on a day when your page will have a lot of traffic. Sometimes I learn about a charity I hadn't heard of and I might donate. I don't feel at all guilty if I choose not to though.

I have never found it hard or guilt-inducing to scroll past. If they set up a whole JustGiving page, I'd think they were making much more of a big deal of it, and feel more guilty for not contributing.

YANBU. And don't give money, ask them which charity they would like a donation to.

Or you could give up using Facebook.

I have clicked the link that says I don't want to see posts like this and haven't seen one since