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Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner
I wasn't intending to single out anyone here with my obnoxious remark. It was directed at the machinery that churns out neverending cancer awareness and fundraising stuff.
I hope the people here on CP who participate in Movember have fun with it. I just needed to vent.
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I know for me the issue with these awareness campaigns is that they've all become noise since social media came along. It's unfortunate, because social media made it easier to spread messages and promote awareness, but in some ways I think it's having the opposite affect that it should.
Now there's cancer awareness everything, shoved in your face every few weeks. Before this happened my reaction to awareness campaigns used to be "Oh, a cancer awareness campaign, I've been affected by it, yes of course I'll donate". Now it's more like "Oh a cancer awareness campaign, this is the third time I've been asked to donate this month, it's kind of lost it's meaningfulness to me".