Donation Buttons: Just a Form of Begging?
On checking my emails this morning, I was pleasantly surprised when I received a mail from PayPal notifying me that I had just received a donation of $25 dollars from someone who had downloaded one of my photos from Pixabay. Wow! That’s great! I thought, considering it was only the second donation, although there were over 20,000 downloads of my images from Pixabay over the last 5 years or so. One of them was even by a well known chain of homestores in the US who could well afford to make a donation, but didn’t! Don’t get me wrong, the images have been released into the public domain and I’m happy to see them being used on the Net without being paid for them, but the odd donation would be nice. That buzz I get from discovering them on a website is my Andy Warholesque “15 minutes of fame.”
Doing Something For Your Donation
Donation buttons often appear on websites, typically charity sites where an appeal is made to raise money for a cause such as famine relief or an emergency appeal to help refugees. They’re common too on sites which share something such as photos or music or where the site owner aids the reader by answering questions or solving problems. Donations can be received straight to a PayPal account or via Facebook Payments or by some other payment method.
