A friend of mine has quite often started or been involved in crowdfunding campaigns to help her friends or acquaintances who are going through difficult times. (When I say quite often, I mean that she has been involved in two campaigns in the past 3 months.) She works in a role where she meets a lot of people, so she is a quite well connected person.
She sends me links to these campaigns and asks me to contribute and share. I haven’t chipped in in all cases, but sometimes I have with a moderate amount if the case is something that I personally consider honest and important. ( I know this might sound cruel, but I think you should consider the cause and the circumstances and what led to them before making any donations.)
If I don’t chip in in the first two days after receiving the link, my friend starts to send me reminders and she insists that I share the campaigns on my social media.
I am not super active of social media and I don’t have a huge following. I used to work in education, and back then I made the decision that all of the content on my accounts is something that I could show to my boss or coworkers anytime without hesitation, and most of my posts have to do with my profession or work.
I should also mention that I work in an industry where it is very common to start crowdfunding campaigns for different ventures. So, a lot of my acquaintances are often involved in some campaign that has to do with their work/business.
Once I made a decision not to share any campaigns where I’m not involved, because it would mean that I would have to do it all the time and it would be very hard to draw a line in what to share and for whom. I also don’t want to look like a person who is constantly “asking for money”. I know that potential employers might read my IG, for example. Honestly, I’m concerned about how sharing content like this affects my social media image.
My friend thinks that I’m a selfish person for not sharing a campaign even if it has to do with a very real personal tragedy. It’s also that I don’t know these people personally and my knowledge of their situation is limited to what my friend shares with me.
How do I explain to my friend without sounding like a selfish person and offending her, that it’s not about her campaign and the person living through difficult times but that as a principle, I wish not to share that kind of content on my social media accounts?
TLDR; My friend wants me to share crowdfunding campaigns on my social media channels and gets offended when I don’t.
Submitted June 01, 2021 at 04:10AM by s_polaris https://ift.tt/3phC7Fy
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