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The Ice Bucket Challenge, often referred to as ALS Ice Bucket Challenge started as a campaign to collect money for the the cure of ALS(a disease). At first it was, indeed, a very kind move on the celebrities' side BUT right now it has just gone out of control.
Common people are doing the Ice Bucket Challenge, only for their own joy, wihout donating a single Euro/ Dollar. Thus the action has become pointless. Seriously if you're not to donate just don't do it. I don't really see why you would throw liters of ice cold water on your head. Be honest with yourself: "Would you do it if it hadn't been for celebrities doing it first?"
On another note, just think of how much water is wasted. You could argue that we spend far more water for other things as well but they are mostly essential.
Still if have not convinced you, then I'd beg you to at least learn about ALS before you take part in the challenge. It's actually really sad that even some of the pioneers of the Ice Bucket Challenge probably do not have a clue about the disease itself.
If you want to help with curing ALS just go and donate! Ask your family and your friends to donate themselves. Do not nominate them for the Ice Bucket Challenge, though.
There really is no point in going with the flow all the time!
Common people are doing the Ice Bucket Challenge, only for their own joy, wihout donating a single Euro/ Dollar. Thus the action has become pointless. Seriously if you're not to donate just don't do it. I don't really see why you would throw liters of ice cold water on your head. Be honest with yourself: "Would you do it if it hadn't been for celebrities doing it first?"
On another note, just think of how much water is wasted. You could argue that we spend far more water for other things as well but they are mostly essential.
Still if have not convinced you, then I'd beg you to at least learn about ALS before you take part in the challenge. It's actually really sad that even some of the pioneers of the Ice Bucket Challenge probably do not have a clue about the disease itself.
If you want to help with curing ALS just go and donate! Ask your family and your friends to donate themselves. Do not nominate them for the Ice Bucket Challenge, though.
There really is no point in going with the flow all the time!
anTHE idiot.How can you get people to do something?
You offer them something fun.
Due to that nominating system just about anyone gets called out to do it,
I think chain letters etc. are dumb but this thing is actually legit.
It's not about you necessarily spending money, others will but not everybody has the money to do so.
If not for that "dumb" ice bucket challenge they wouldn't even have made
a quarter or prolly a tenth of the money they got now so um yeh,
collect your rustled jimmies, learn about media and manipulation.
It is obviously kinda sad how we need something like a "fun-event" to start donating money but honestly if it works why the **** not.
I saw some really dumb posts where guys just showed off their bodies but I also saw loads of people donating so you might wanna think properly before you spread your in just about every way
wrong - doesn't mix well with the word opinion.dumb opinion.(seems like someone else did the enlightening regarding your water problem)
I checked through some videos of my friends and many of them actually posted a link or donated themselves (16 to 17 year olds).
That's nice news to hear :)
Things are not the same in my country, however. I know only 2 people who have donated and 20+, who have done the challenge. Even some "famous" ones do not donate...
Also I never argued that the the challenge did not have positive results. But right now it's just pintless, as it has accomplished its goal of raising attention. In other words, it's high time this hype stopped because right now it's nothing else than people copying what their friends and ultimately their favourite, let's say artists, did.
In other words, I never said that the challenge itself was/is harmful or something. I actually mentioned both in the blog and in the comments, that it was a nice intention with good results BUT right now (further) donating is more reasonable and more important.
Also I am not sure how you define "being aware of ALS". Do you mean that they know there is a disease called "ALS" and more or less basic stuff or really having some knowledge on the subject?
Oh damn, that's just true if you take water collected in a bucket filled by rain water or something like this, just saying.
On topic those people aren't copying famous people like artists or whatever because the challenged already raised attention before even well-known people started celebrating it. There was an accident in Germany due to an Ice Bucket Challenge a month ago before anybody "famous" posted a video of him on the internet.
No offense, but you are behaving like a "stereotype-car-driver" complaining about the abuse of that charity action. It's an hype and hypes will pass by and what's left are some videos, loads of collected money and more people being aware of ALS even if they didn't donate and didn't even care about the fact the challenge being supposed to be a charity action.
Ok, fair enough, some people can't. But there are many who can and don't want to.
Also do not think that I have not experienced poverty. I live in a country where the unemployment rates are one of the highest, if not the highest in the EU and the average income is less than in most european countries.
@XeresAce: Personally, I am against replicating what famous people do without much thinking etc. And believe me, for me there are many other better ways to have fun, I do not even find it amusing at all, to be honest. Actually I/you and everybody else can be more constructive by just going to the bank and donating some money(as much as one want/can).
@Darealone: That's an opinion as well...
Hey...it's better than the stupid fire challenge.
I haven't done this challenge, nor do I plan to do it anytime soon; however, I have done things like these before. I just think it's a fun to replicate something amusing that a celebrity does, especially when so many other people are doing it too. You get to share experiences, get opinions and get involved with something on a very large scale quite easily. A celebrity did it and had fun, their fanbase followed and had fun, the entire world followed and had their fair share of fun, so why shouldn't you?
@ Ckyze: It's bad consumption of water. I agree there is even worse consumption of water but this doesn't change the fact that the consumption itself is bad.
EDIT: Also the point that people cannot donate doesn't make much sense. Donate 5 bucks bro, or even less. If you can fill a bucket with water and record yourself throwing it on top of your head, well then you definately have some cash.
Maybe it's bad, but in a world of billions wasting water, turning against a bucket of water seems stupid. Just saying.
For you, maybe it's easy to say. But some people can't afford a camera and actualy record with other people's cameras. I know people that would love to donate something, but can't afford to do so due to their gains. Not everyone have the same possibilities of spending their money.
The challenge raised awareness. Now what? Donations increased, yes, but let's see it from a different view.
Why can't you just donate now and skip the ****ing challenge. For real, but I have seen 14-15 year old kids doing the challenge and for sure, they will not donate. You could say that they could ask their parents to donate but there is better way to do that.
I just find how ridiculous it is that people are actually copying what celebrities do. Would you ever throw a bucket of cold water on your head if it hadn't been for famous people doing so? Or would you do it in one year time from now? Sure not.
What I am saying is that the action itself is plain stupid. Yeah, the intentios were good, there were results but right now we can all just go to the bank and donate.
Actionaid and Unicef also receive donations and have several members but there has never been such a thing. I understand the point of raising awareness but the goal was now reached.