#ALSiceBucketChallenge why I will *not* be pouring water on my head. 6:15 pm, August 20, 2014 For Petes sake people, please stop dumping buckets of ice water on your heads. For one thing, its clogging up my Facebook feed and the automatic video play means Ive seen way too many people sopping wet who all have the same unsurprising reaction: That was cold. The real reason, though, is that the ice bucket challenge is another Internet fad. And Internet fads from six months ago are already more faded than my 1996 Gators national championship T-shirt. Remember when Let it Go parodies were funny waaay back in March? Or we could dig really deep and recall the McKayla is not impressed memes after the 2012 Olympics or the Dont Tase Me Bro spinoffs that started during the 2008 presidential campaign. What about Kony? Is he still out there? Im not on the ice bucket bandwagon because of what it says about our selfie culture. I dont know who coined the term slacktivism, but it fits. Real activism takes more than liking or retweeting or posting a video of yourself doused in an effort to collect your own likes and retweets. Im not overlooking the fact that finding a cure for ALS is a very worthy cause. Or that the ice bucket challenge has helped raise $32 million, more than a 1,000 percent increase over what the ALS Association raised during the same time period last year. But how many ice heads will contribute again? A recent paper out of the University of British Columbia suggests not many. Researchers found that people who first get involved in a cause with a public token display of support are less likely to remain meaningfully engaged in that cause, The Washington Post reported earlier this year. ... Read more of the article linked below. Or better yet- just send a donation. touch.orlandosentinel/#columnist/p2p-66468002/article/p2p-81135876/
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:41:50 +0000
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