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I don't know if this is just me, or if I am a mean and judgy person. But what is with people constantly e-begging and asking for people to fund them? In a lot of facebook groups I know, it seems that people drop their Venmo or Paypal details and ask others to buy them treats or pay their bills. Am I just old and grouchy, is this really socially acceptable these days?
Quote from: velly j on August 20, 2020, 10:54:20 amI don't know if this is just me, or if I am a mean and judgy person. But what is with people constantly e-begging and asking for people to fund them? In a lot of facebook groups I know, it seems that people drop their Venmo or Paypal details and ask others to buy them treats or pay their bills. Am I just old and grouchy, is this really socially acceptable these days?chiming in with: not acceptable. I do see a lot of gofundme's posted due to tragedy and the like though
Quote from: Nikko-chan on August 20, 2020, 11:14:13 amQuote from: velly j on August 20, 2020, 10:54:20 amI don't know if this is just me, or if I am a mean and judgy person. But what is with people constantly e-begging and asking for people to fund them? In a lot of facebook groups I know, it seems that people drop their Venmo or Paypal details and ask others to buy them treats or pay their bills. Am I just old and grouchy, is this really socially acceptable these days?chiming in with: not acceptable. I do see a lot of gofundme's posted due to tragedy and the like thoughI'm not really talking about gofundme: while that can be abused, it is often for legitimate emergencies and also it is often on behalf of others. What I'm talking about is people saying that they feel like pizza but they are broke, can someone chip in and spoil them? Or that they feel they deserve a treat and here is their Venmo. There have been times in my life when I've been pretty broke (although never destitute) and I would never have dreamed of asking relative strangers for money, especially not for luxuries like pizza and fancy tolietries.
Re: e-begging« Reply #5 on: Today at 01:25:04 pm »QuoteI agree with the others; I've never seen anything like what you describe. What sort of groups do you belong to? How do the other members react? Do they end up getting the money?Most of the groups that I'm in would probably poo-poo something like that out the door. I don't think that you are mean or judgey. I would struggle not sending the person a link to Monster.com!
QuoteRe: e-begging« Reply #5 on: Today at 01:25:04 pm »QuoteI agree with the others; I've never seen anything like what you describe. What sort of groups do you belong to? How do the other members react? Do they end up getting the money?Most of the groups that I'm in would probably poo-poo something like that out the door. I don't think that you are mean or judgey. I would struggle not sending the person a link to Monster.com!I suspect this kind of behavior, both the mooching and the caving in to the mooching, may be more common among some young adults who are a bit inexperienced at dealing with irresponsible behaviors. Sometimes when you're young you might allow yourself to be taken advantage of by a mooch. After a couple times that it happens, you start to see a pattern, and you learn to say "no". When I was in my early twenties I had a couple of friends who would squander their money, then try to get me to pay for their drinks. As a matter of fact, I ended up dropping both of these women as friends because I realized they were users.Also, I believe there have been people who have started gofundme accounts for things like vacation trips.
We just saw a young person who used car chalk to write, on his rear windshield, that he just graduated, didn't have a job yet, and had student loans. Then, added his cashapp for people to buy him a drink.
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