You may have noticed some fundraisers circulating the internet via GoFundMe. This company is based in San Diego and Menlo Park, launching over six years ago. It has rapidly become the World’s #1 fundraising site for personal causes and life-events. Super convenient to create, you're able to simply enter a campaign title and set your monetary goal, and before long, you're all set to share your fundraiser with all of the internet world! Others can navigate through your link with ease, as they read your story and are able to choose the amount they would like to give. Pretty soon, you're ready to collect the gracious donations for whatever need you may have (or so you paint yourself to have). Having said that, I believe that GoFundMe was built on the most genuine of intentions — to serve others in the midst of their desperation to raise money and support for all the kinds of things that come up in life. But as time goes on, I've come to the realization that some of these fundraisers have gone way too far. Here are some that I definitely do NOT suggest participating in:

1. The "Justify my bad choices" GoFundMe

This GoFundMe is for the one that's so deep in his or her foolish mistakes that they think the best answer is to pursue the world to save them. This GoFundMe usually asks for a way out of an addiction and spontaneous, absolutely immoral decisions — all of which will most likely repeat again and again, and with this handout, absolutely nothing will be learned (except that someone will always be there to clean up the mess, no matter how dirty). I've even seen a GoFundMe asking for help in rebuilding a home that was destroyed in a fire. This all sounds genuine, but consider what was hidden from the story section, something in which those in the comment section angrily shed some light on — the fire was a product of a drug lab, while all the while also putting young, innocent children in danger. This GoFundMe supports and really, in the end, enables terrible choices and behavior. It bails out and feeds the cycle of irresponsibility and stupidity.

2. The "Pay for my rent, car, college and everything else I'm too lazy to work for" GoFundMe

This GoFundMe is probably the most frustrating of them all (at least for us working Americans). This one absolutely undermines hard work and integrity — it glorifies unnecessary handouts and creates an even bigger illusion of entitlement.

Nelson Mandela, former president and activist once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” If education is this crucial, then why should it be free? And if it were free, wouldn't that absolutely decrease its value and significance to this generation and generations to come? I believe that this concept is applicable to just about anything, whether it be the payments of our homes, the vehicles that we tote around in, or our day to day mundane expenses. We aren't entitled to having our luxuries and/or our necessities paid off by the diligent world around us, just because we don't feel like covering them. Things cost money- that's life. That's how it's always been and that's how it will cease to be. And we certainly shouldn't ask for or even accept handouts to things in which we could perfectly attain ourselves.

3. The "Support my kids so I don't have to" GoFundMe

I think a vast majority of these ridiculous GoFundMe's are fueled by ignorant, irresponsible parents. I'm sure you've seen them circulating all around Facebook- make Sally a new playhouse, give Jimmy's ten children a fabulous Christmas this year, send the Bradey bunch on their (parents') dream vacation- oh, give me a break. Now, don't get me wrong- I know that there are very real needs out there- so many sweet children that aren't being cared for to the best of their parents' abilities. I get that- I so do. But that's not what I'm talking about-- I'm talking about the parents that could step up, but won't. I'm talking about the parents that would rather collect a government-issued paycheck and receive any handout possible, then actually give their children an ounce of their attention, let alone financial support. There's such a difference. This GoFundMe makes an absolute joke of parenting and turns children into sources of income and nuisances, not blessings.

Let's give GoFundMe's back to the heartbreaking medical diagnoses', the hopeless life events, the anonymous submissions for the ones too humble to ask for help — to the ones that they were actually intended for.