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So, this Ice Bucket Challenge has gone viral in social media since July 2014 and become a trending phenomenon until now! Honestly I don't really understand why people are doing this challenge at first. I was wondering why the celebrities and well-known people do this challenge. I thought that it was only done for fun but I was wrong. As I make a research on it (research through Google of course :p ), now I realize the purpose were to fund-raising and spread the awareness about the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or best known as the Lou Gehrig's Disease. There are two ways to support this ALS awareness; No 1: is to directly donating through the ALS website and No.2: is to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. My understanding is that when a person is doing the ice bucket challenge, he'll nominate others to do the challenge as well and the nominated person will have to do it within 24hours or otherwise they'll have to donate.
I think I just started to know the existence of this challenge after I watched one of my favourite Youtubers Ryan doing it >.< Well of course there were lots of other people have done it too, like these popular celebrities.
Why are they wasting such energy/time/water to complete the challenge? Yeah it was to create awareness, I get it. But isn't it is much easier if you just donate it directly? I'm not saying that their act is useless, of course it's a good thing because the news said that the #Icebucketchallenge has helped in the increment of the fund-raising activity for ALS Association. But then some people only make it Just for A "Challenge" and then they were challenging their friends to do it as well. There's no sense of creating awareness in it or being aware from it. People have also complaining that the act is wasting water as some region like California is in drought. Well we can't say that they are wrong. We can't also say that the ice bucket challenge is useless. It is actually how we perceived the outcome from it.
Forgive me if I'm wrong. But seriously guys, if you are doing the Ice Bucket Challenge, please make it more educational as the sole purpose is to create awareness to others on ALS and let's not just doing it because it is a trending phenomenon and therefore you think you have to do it too, Okay?
For more info, kindly visit ALS Association and read here.
Thanks for reading.
