ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

All of you douchebags doing this shit, why don't you a google search on something called "moral self licensing". This will give you some insight into this whole thing. It's all a bunch of bullshit.

Yawn.

a client of ours (now deceased) had it, was very hard to watch. you feel very helpless all the way until the very end.

a friend of mine's father has it and it's absolutely horrible to watch and see what she's going through; he's barely alive, completely immobile except for his eyes.

I guess have a different perspective because I've witnessed it, and while I see people's points about wanting attention on social media and validation for their good deed from their friends, I personally don't give a fuck what their motivation is nor will I flame them for what they're doing. I'm about results, and if it spreads awareness and raises money for a good cause, then mission accomplished I say.

Don't forget to head over to the website to pickup your Action Kit after you donate!!

The fire challenge is more entertaining.

challenge on my newsfeed: insecure 5% body-fat guys dumping ice water on themselves in sunglasses

I agree with that hiester is saying and agree people will quickly move on and forget. But I don't care since their money will be used for additional awareness and research.

Fundamental problem is this illness impacts so few that it is hard to justify spending to cure it when you could make small improvements with other illnesses and have such a better impact.

In a world of finite resources sometimes you need to focus on the good of the many over the needs of a few.

While on the surface it may have gotten annoying it's helped raise a lot of money for a disease that gets little attention as others have said. I understand the limited resources vs number of afflicted but the ALS group came up with a brilliant viral marketing campaign, god bless 'em.

And if it really annoys you, just ignore it on FB. Donate and don't flaunt/post it. Or don't and ignore it. If you let things like this get to you you'll end up with ulcers and heart attacks at a young age.

I would bet a fair bit money that a lot of the people who have done the ice bucket challenge have either no idea what it is for, don't donate anyway, or have no real altruistic inclination to advance the cause of finding a cure for ALS. However, kudos to the guy who came up with the ice bucket challenge for recognizing Americans' narcissistic obsessions with social media and self congratulation. His ability to take advantage of stupid people with money to burn has helped raise tens of millions of dollars for a cause which I'm sure he cares a lot about.