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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple of these requests made it to the Parent FB page for my child's college.  Then another parent decided to perform a social media deep dive on the requesters and started posting his "findings" which I found to be a breach of the students' privacy.  What an awkward situation.[/quote]

Without going into specifics, what were - in general - these findings?[/quote]

The point of the posting the "findings" seemed to be to discourage parents from donating.  One student had apparently posted photos from a trip to a beach and the inference was that the student had made poor financial decisions and was therefore undeserving.  Another student had been the recipient of some academic award that had $$ attached and was already a recipient of financial aid, and again that meant the student should not ask for more.  Nothing scandalous.  I agree with an earlier poster - if you don't want to give, just don't.  It seems that by creating a GoFundMe you subject yourself to a lot of scrutiny.[/quote]

Got it. My DD asked me to donate to a former classmate now graduate) who wanted to go on study abroad, which I did. If it had been for tuition, I might have hesitated, largely because the sums are so large and making a dent in one semester does not address the long term problem. [/quote]

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