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I want to know if these people are getting gofundme requests from people they know. If so, what are they doing differently from me? Because if you're getting

by lsc 11y ago

I want to know if these people are getting gofundme requests from people they know. If so, what are they doing differently from me? Because if you're getting gofundme requests from people you don't know, we've all been getting hit up for money from shady "charities" forever; it's just that the internet has democratized the technologies used to ask randoms for money. This isn't really a change, in my mind. I'll accept that it's a cultural change when I get these sorts of requests from people I know, rather than from random strangers.

7Figures2Commas 11y ago
> ...it's just that the internet has democratized the technologies used to ask randoms for money. You hit the nail on the head. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time. Services like GoFundMe simply make reaching "some of the people" much, much easier.
morgante 11y ago
> I'll accept that it's a cultural change when I get these sorts of requests from people I know, rather than from random strangers. I get these ridiculous GoFundMe requests from people I know (including relatively close friends) on a pretty regular basis. It's different from the classic "charities" in that the pressure is much higher when it's a personal appeal from a friend.