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comment by thenewgreen

I'm sitting in a restaurant and the table next to me is having a heated debate as to whether or not to use icebucketing to help their charitable organization.

#badidea





kleinbl00  ·  3744 days ago  ·  link  ·  
crafty  ·  3744 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm all for the funding of research about the ailment du jour, but this just seems like a wildly popular chain letter in video/social media form. I bet some marketers were watching those stupid "ice-cream coning" videos from McDonalds and thinking, we gotta get in on this! People love uploading videos of themselves doing wacky things! I wonder what organization will use this phenomenon next. Meme marketing? I don't even know if it has a name.

kleinbl00  ·  3744 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As we all know, the best way to change something is to bandwagon something useless on Facebook through empty promises or meaningless gestures. Just ask Joseph Kony.