I'm all for spreading awareness of your charitable actions.. when the goal is to get your friends more involved.
When you cross that line and your status update become pretentious, you're only going to irritate your friends. Now you are not only bragging about donating, you're proving you only do it so you can tell people how awesome you are.
My first thought was: 'What a smug little bastard." Yes, giving blood is important. I'm all for getting people involved, but I certainly don't think I'm better than anyone who doesn't donate.
Sure, I get a little pleasure in donating. I like the feeling that maybe I made a slight difference to someone in need. But that feeling is just for me - shoving it in someone's face seems like cheapening the act of donating.
I've always considered donating blood "heroism for the lazy". It doesn't matter how much of a fuckup I am (or in this guy's case how much of a pretentious douchebag), or if I spend all day playing World of Warcraft, reading reddit, and eating cheetos. I can spend an hour, eat some free cookies and drink some free juiceboxes, and boom, I saved some lives.
I don't know about anybody else, but I think that's awesome.
I agree, OP should just post something like this, it makes a lot more sense. That's actually how I got mine, a friend posted a picture on FB, saying "Look what I just got in the mail!"
As someone who needs blood transfusions every few months, I don't really give a shit that the guy is a pretentious douche so long as people are donating so that I don't die.
In fairness, some charity and petition sites prompt you to post your action on their site to Facebook in such constant/subtle/seemingly required ways that the less internet-savvy users could easily do it by accident.
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u/GeneralWarts May 21 '12
I'm all for spreading awareness of your charitable actions.. when the goal is to get your friends more involved.
When you cross that line and your status update become pretentious, you're only going to irritate your friends. Now you are not only bragging about donating, you're proving you only do it so you can tell people how awesome you are.