Facebook now lets you ask friends for charitable donations

Facebook is adding a ‘personal fundraiser’ feature today, taking on services like GoFundMe head on. The new tool will allow people to leverage their friend networks to collect charitable donations for emergencies and other important issues. You may recall that Facebook previously added a fundraising feature back in 2015, but this only applied to non-profits. The new feature lets almost anyone start a fundraiser (if they live in the US). However, you can’t go around asking your friends for money to buy some diamond-studded taco or whatever you found on eBay just yet. Facebook is limiting you to just six actually-important…

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