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Birthday donations on FB

  • 04-02-2019 2:13am
    #1
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,102 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    This seems to be a pretty recent trend on Facebook.

    FB "friends" or your real friends on FB requesting donations to their charity of choice for their birthdays.

    Anyone here on FB who has seen this? Anyone feel a bit guilted into donating to, say, a good friend's birthday?


Comments

  • #2
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,214 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Most people I see do it rarely get more than €10 unless they've a big sob story to go with it.
    I wouldn't really bother doing it unless it was somebody really close.


  • #3
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Nope. Facebook asks you to set it up as a notification before your birthday so I doubt people would do it so much if they had to remember it themselves. I’ve only donated to one and she isn’t even a friend. It was for pieta house and she recently lost a family member to suicide.


  • #4
    ShaneC93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭ShaneC93


    It's always a bit awkward now because at first people would actually get donations but with the amount of folks doing it now, most of them don't get anything.. and the rest get like <€20 from family and best friends only. Even the big celebs doing them have seen increasingly poor results.


  • #5
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    This seems to be a pretty recent trend on Facebook.

    FB "friends" or your real friends on FB requesting donations to their charity of choice for their birthdays.

    Anyone here on FB who has seen this? Anyone feel a bit guilted into donating to, say, a good friend's birthday?

    It's a nice thing to ask people to do. You don't need to be guilted into anything unless your friends are asking for receipts which doesn't happen. Donate if you like the cause charity otherwise ignore and on the world will turn.


  • #6
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    This seems to be a pretty recent trend on Facebook.

    FB "friends" or your real friends on FB requesting donations to their charity of choice for their birthdays.

    Anyone here on FB who has seen this? Anyone feel a bit guilted into donating to, say, a good friend's birthday?

    Have never felt guilted. I’ve genuinely forgot to donate to some and nothing was ever said. Some good organisations have had money raised for them because of this so it’s all good!

    As said above though, the more they are done, the less money will be raised. People don’t have endless money.


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