The REAL facebook BC game!

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  • luv_gardening
    luv_gardening Member Posts: 1,393
    edited March 2011

    Wow, 8 replies between my post and the one I was replying to!  This thread is MOVING FAST!

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  • dawn31337
    dawn31337 Member Posts: 307
    edited March 2011

    KSkier - dude, you've been here for 3 years....I sure hope you are in!  I'll do it if you do!

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Ha! I bet the photo of my botched reconstruction would scare even the hardest of hearts away!

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    1067!

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  • KSkier
    KSkier Member Posts: 467
    edited March 2011

    Day : I just took a peak at the facebook site, and I've got to tell you that you are doing a good job of rising above the squabbling. I don't think I could be as thick skinned.  Keep up the good work.  K

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  • luv_gardening
    luv_gardening Member Posts: 1,393
    edited March 2011

    This is what I wrote with my friends' requests.

    Those cancer awareness games have stirred up a lot of strong feelings among cancer patients. If you REALLY want to help them then please read their page and respect their feelings. 

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    KSkier, I DID delete of few of them, when they proved to be just trolls. But as I said, I am thick skinned, because none of these people are important to me. Does that make sense?

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2011

    1097 and I'm going to bed now.

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  • CarylC
    CarylC Member Posts: 230
    edited March 2011

    Love it!  I joined and 11 of my friends instantly signed up as well. 

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Good morning, ladies! 1200 now!

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited March 2011

    G'Day Day

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  • InTwoPlaces
    InTwoPlaces Member Posts: 354
    edited March 2011

    Great!!!

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  • HollyinMich
    HollyinMich Member Posts: 210
    edited March 2011

    Awesome idea Day!!  Love it and signed up as well!

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Ladies, don't forget to invite your friends too! We need this to go viral!

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  • HollyinMich
    HollyinMich Member Posts: 210
    edited March 2011

    Posted a link to the event along with the following in two Facebook IBC groups I am in to help spread the word!  I know some of the ladies in the groups are also members on this site as well.

    Hi ladies! A fellow breastcancer.org member has created an event in response to the silly FB BC awareness games. It's VERY worthy of passing along and I hope you ladies will take a moment to look at it and sign up for the event.

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Thank you, Holly!

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2011

    1405! This is getting bigger and bigger, I hope by the end of May we get quite a number! Once we get to 5,000 participants I'll go for the media.

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    You guys HAVE to see the "prostate cancer" comment on the event's wall!!!

    MMM.. too late. I deleted it as it was degenerating in squabbling.

    Essentially he was saying that this is a sexist event and he will join when he will see events about prostate cancer.

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2011

    1709! And I'm going to bed.

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited March 2011

    G'day Day...

    1,758 Attending

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited March 2011

    So what's the count now??? (And how many does it take to go "viral")

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Good morning! It was 1965 when I woke up. I was very busy yesterday with a local picnic, so I didn't maange to post links and stuff. I'll be back on doing that today.

    Well, over 50,000 it has the chances to go viral.

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Yay! 2001! thank you all, keep spreading the word!

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    2,303!

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited March 2011

    Yey!!

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    2,533!

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited March 2011
    Day, I have already signed up. Please define next step. I know you would like us to donate to an organization that helps those BC women that need financial help. Before I donate to any organization I ask what % goes to the actual intended of that charity. In order to make the impact you are looking for, this should be defined before hand. Plus, if it is a singular organization vs each members in state organization. That needs to be defined. The biggest impact is going to be seen in a singular organization that has the lowest administrative cost to intended function, yet dispenses in a fair fashion to all states.  Then once the organization is defined , they have to be forwarned that there may be an influx of donations. Can they be done by phone, website and what are there security guidelines. Also, how to avoid scammers taking off on your mission , using your story by phone to scam money. I was recently scammed, regretfully, so am a bit sensitive to security issues. Can we make donation prior to may 31st and have it tabulated into your "game".  Forwarning the organization, allows them to upstaff in preparing for more calls etc. There is still plenty of time. But once you have info periodically post or do a topic thread with directions. Security is an issue. You have hit a hotspot for sure with many.    Scammers would love to say i'm representing Day blah blah. so, choosing an organization that has a strong security system is very important--otherwise your mission will fall down the rabbit hole and become fodder for tabloid jokes. That is not meant to be cruel, but helpful.
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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited March 2011

    I can vouch for Sas...  (How are you?).

    Day... that soup was so awesome.. I have a couple teenagers and a group of their friends came over with my son and asked if I'd make it for them  (as if I could just up and make soup in the middle of the day)..

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Sas, the event doesnt' actually require participants to donate anything, once the event is over we will challenge Mark Zuckerberg and others in the media, to match $1 for each participant. My proposed organization was Cancercare.org. They were going to help me last year when I didn't know what I was going to do with my co-pays. But, when researching the charities (you can do that at http://www.charitynavigator.org) I saw that they are not very efficient, they only raise 2 cents for every dollar spent. The most efficient that I could find is the American Breast CancerFoundation.

    Here's their website and here's their evaluation.

    So, as we are not actually donating ourselves, unless we want to, and it is stated clearly in the text of the event, I dont' think there can be any scam.

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  • Shrek4
    Shrek4 Member Posts: 1,822
    edited March 2013

    Apple - that is funny! Yes, I had people coming over many times and askign me about the soup lol

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