ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. What are your thoughts?

I would have to say that it has most definitely raised awareness of ALS and they have generated quite a bit of extra revenue as a result.
Just finished watching a video compilation of Ice Bucket Challenge fails and gotta say it was a pretty funny clip.
Other than that I'm pretty bored of seeing the videos all over my feeds! It may be close to the point of jumping the shark.

True, I have not seen this yet but I am sure it is out there. You will always have the young and the foolish.

I don't get it...where does the donation come in? Do you donate if you don't dump the ice on your head? It seems like everyone is getting a kick out of dumping the ice, so where is the donation? Do you donate to nominate someone? It just seems like a bunch of people dumping ice on their heads and putting it on Facebook. Funny, I have seen about 10 of those videos recently, and only one mentioned ALS at all. Just give money to the organization if you want to donate. Jeez.

As I stated in another thread, I am happy to see that they have dramatically increased awareness (and revenue), but it's getting very stale. I believe it's at the point of jumping the shark.

I't's all good, as long as people are following through with the donations. Like others have mentioned, I'm sick to death of the videos. I got called out, but I wasn't about to post yet another video, so I donated....but I figured ALS was getting plenty of attention so I donated to project sanctuary instead, which I became aware of due to a post by LTC Jason Strickland, then challenged all my friends to donate also.

http://www.projectsanctuary.us/

My biggest issue with the challenge is that it advertises that it is raising money and awareness. The awareness part I can get, but the money not so much. I mean how many videos have you seen with someone writing a check because they refuse to do the challenge? That is what I don't understand. For everybody that has done the challenge, no money is going to ALS research, it is simply someone videoing themselves and posting it to different social media outlets.

I just watched the very first Ice Bucket Challenge two minutes ago, because my husband made me, as I had been avoiding them. A half-naked idiot of a woman is sitting on a horse and pours ice water on her head and all over the horse. And the horse did its horse thing that pissed off horses tend to do and bucked that b**ch right off...
I snorted and felt highly justified all of a sudden in my decision to continue not watching them.

Quit wasting water!!!

Glad that it's bringing awareness to ALS but all the videos have become a little annoying. That being said would like to see something similar that would bring awareness to the Wounded Warrior Project. I personally try to donate to WWP when ever I can.