I took my own advice.
This may be the first time in a long time.
I thought about it for a long time after I posted my previous post today about utilizing the power of Facebook for good. And I did it.
I started a Facebook group called “When This Group Reaches 1M Members, I Will Donate $1M to Help the Homeless”
Everyone that joins has to donate a dollar. All of that money will be donated to helping the homeless once the group has reached 1,000,000 members.
I see a lot of Pages and Groups on Facebook that are called, “I bet I can find 1,000,000 people who want to stop world hunger” or “I bet I can find 1,000,000 people who disapprove of the health care reform bill.”
I don’t join these groups.
Why? Because I don’t see what these Facebook groups are doing to actually combat these problems besides talking about it.
I join a group and it shows everyone that I want to stop world hunger, but what am I actually doing to get it done?
I think that these types of groups should charge $1 for every person that joins the group.
Can you imagine the power of that?
$1,000,000 raised in a matter of weeks for whatever cause? And all you have to do is have people drop a $1 into PayPal.
The only problem that I see with it are scam artists. How do we sort out the cons from the causes?
What do you think?