{"id":641447,"date":"2013-02-06T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=215442"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:23:27","slug":"for-200-would-you-quit-facebook-for-5-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641447","title":{"rendered":"For $200, Would You Quit Facebook for 5 Months?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is $200 enough money to get you to cease all Facebook activity for a period of just under 5 months? <\/p>\n

That’s the deal one dad made with his 14-year-old daughter. Paul Baier, a VP at a Boston-based energy firm has inked a contract with his daughter Rachel that will keep her off the leading social network from now until June 26th. All he has to do is pay her $50 on April 14th and the rest of the money upon completion of the contract. <\/p>\n

To make sure that Rachel doesn’t relapse, the contract stipulates that Mr. Baier will have “access to [her] Facebook to change the password and to deactivate the account.<\/p>\n

“It was her idea,” Mr. Baier told the Daily Dot. “She wants to earn money and also finds Facebook a distraction and a waste of time sometimes. She plans to go back on after the 6 months is over”<\/p>\n

Apparently, she plans to use the money for “stuff.”<\/p>\n

Distraction or not, it sounds like Rachel has somehow convinced her dad to pay her to do something she wanted to do anyway. Good on you, Rachel. <\/p>\n

Yesterday we told you about a study from Pew that found that one in four people plan on cutting back on their Facebook usage<\/a> over the next year. Are you one of them? If you still love Facebook and see no real reason to quit, how much cash would it take?<\/p>\n

[PracticalSustainability<\/a> via The Daily Dot<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Is $200 enough money to get you to cease all Facebook activity for a period of just under 5 months? That’s the deal one dad made with his 14-year-old daughter. Paul Baier, a VP at a Boston-based energy firm has inked a contract with his daughter Rachel that will keep her off the leading social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}