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Luke Berezak is incurable – suffers from Crohn’s disease (inflammatory bowel disease). Also battling with hypertension, joint disease, have kidney problems. Despite this 10-year-old from Szczecin this year once again as a volunteer involved in the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. The media said he wants to help others, for which there is hope of a cure. After I showed him satellite, quickly began to gain enormous popularity – wrote about the media in Poland, and on Monday Jurek Owsiak decided to visit him. In the yard, where the boy lives, even created a scene, which Medic leader thanked the boy. – Luke is supergo?? and why we’re here – he said.

“Polish, to work!”

On Tuesday someone founded on the Facebook profile “Luke Berezak – we beat records polubie? for you.’re with you.” Do not we learn anything from him about the boy – a description of the site is only the slogan “For me there is no help, so I want to help others.” For this photo of a boy and a four-minute video, which praises Jurek Owsiak. One entry: “1000000 polubie? a week. Share on your plate, invite your friends to like. We beat the record for Luke. Polish, to work.” And people lajkuj?. On Thursday before noon, there were already more than 700 thousand. But this is not the end, because … Luke created for as many as 23 similar profiles! Among others “We are with you”, “Small Jurek Owsiak”, “We are proud of you.”

On one of the pages for Luke (“Luke Berezak” – a public figure, around 50 thousand. Fans) administrators posted “People! After all, you will be simply sold. (…) Shame business spin on human misery.” But if this website is real? She’s credibility to, but at least it gives the registration number.

Isabella, mother of a boy, she said gs24.pl portal that has nothing to do with these accounts. – I got the information from a cousin that one of the profiles pretending to be Luke is already on sale in Warsaw. The price is 19,99 z?. – Says the woman, and she adds. – I’m that scared. I just hope that most of these accounts, however, the desire to help Luke.

– Sorry, but we observe that the problems of people try to do Luke different interests. To have a boy also report differs frauds, and for that many people write offensive comments all the time and she has to sit and delete them that their son had not read – says Marzenna Mountain, president of the Association of Parents of Children with Leukemia and other diseases Neoplastic

On Thursday at approx. 15 Luke largest dedicated profile has been deleted.

support or feeding

The forums professionals the majority of social media has no doubt: “It’s preying on boy”, “I’m afraid that this farm lajków”. Over 200 “lajków” you can not change the profile name, but there is nothing to prevent the throw there then such advertising, which will see thousands of “fans”. And a lot of times noticed: “There does not even have an account number, a reference to the official site, nothing that would really help.”

What are the farm lajków? This page whose sole goal is to quickly gather as many fans. When the farm is big enough – it can be sold for example, a company that advertise their products there. Most farms are created under the catchy slogans, such as “I like brunettes,” but it happens that the use of a human tragedies or problems.

Adrian ?a?niewski dotPR agency and co-creator of the profile “Get More Social” does not want to prejudge whether the largest profile for Luke’s “farm”, though he admits that such stories happen. – It may be that as the internet, someone created the profile under the influence of emotions right now. Sent in by colleagues, they’re spreading it myself and it started. Establishment of such a site is after all very easy. It is a pity that this action was not considered, because if put there account number, website address, that some of these “lajków” would be easier to forge a real help. For such acquiring human history easily build site popularity. Land that has not slowed us from thinking about the real helping.

Lajk currency is not

“And enough to everyone instead of ‘like’, shed buck” – write some Internet users. I get the point. Already last year, the social campaign on this issue took UNICEF. Action “Likes do not save lives” (“Like, it does not save lives”) is to draw people’s attention to the problem of superficial and somewhat fictional help in social media. The main slogan that appeared on posters, was: “Like us on Facebook and zaszczepimy children against polio to zero.” As observed by activists, UNICEF, the popular “Lajk” is not a currency, and it is impossible to pay such vaccines for children. Such fondness at most allows us to somewhat soothe the conscience. But ultimately what UNICEF is needed to buy these vaccines?

Authors share that they do not call for it to stop “like” and “share” – it advertises problems and can affect the public’s attention. But without the financial support of many organizations opportunities will be very limited.

?a?niewski: – Unfortunately, transfer money or other forms of assistance requires more than a few. Sometimes it does not help not because we could not, just because we simply do not want to.

How to help

Meanwhile, Luke from Szczecin can really help. On the lukaszberezak.pl find account numbers to which you can transfer money to treatment and rehabilitation of 10-year-old (mother of Luke is working with the Association of Parents of Children with Leukemia and other diseases Neoplastic). To help him, you can also donate 1 percent. tax. *** On Thursday afternoon, among others, thanks to the involvement of Internet users was made official profile Luke – run by his family and friends. If you want to go “Like” and follow what’s happening with the boy, you can do it here.