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If your kid is spending too much time on Facebook, what should you do? Cut the Internet? Annoying for you. Restrict their access? Not realistic. Ground them? Haha. What about giving them a signed contract that promises them 130 quid if they stay off Facebook for five months? Sounds like a plan!
Paul Baier, a loving father, had his 14-year-old daughter, Rachel, sign a contract that requires her to not use Facebook from February 4, 2013 to June 26, 2013. The deal pays her £30-odd if she’s successful until April and the remainder if she can avoid Facebook until June. The contract is pretty ironclad (as far as parent/child contracts go, at least), Paul gets access to her Facebook account’s password so that he can completely deactivate it.
What’s surprising is that this whole avoiding Facebook contract was Rachel’s idea, not Paul’s. According to Paul, his daughter wanted earn some money and stop getting distracted with Facebook. Two birds with one stone kind of thing. Rachel won’t be quitting Facebook altogether though, she plans to use it again in six months, but it’s good for kids to get away from social networks. In fact, everyone should get away from this goddamn digital life and offer their kids the same deal. [Daily Dot]
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My god!
That linked article from Jesus I actually enjoyed reading and longer than 3 lines…
Is she allowed to use G+?
Just a quick Giz Uk Gripe, I realise this has been “translated” from the US site, and we can clearly see this chap payed his Daughter $200 not £130.
We all know what a dollar is over here can we just stick with the currency used in the story?
It’s not really a problem and more my OCD just flaring up I guess.
I’ve tried man, the £65 Hawking bet, and recently the didn’t convert the pricing of a Pi. It seems to be whoever chooses to bring something across from Giz US on the day whether or not it’s converted. Each time it seems to be the should’ve chosen the other option. I’ve made my peace with it… (Lies. I haven’t. The only thing that might placate me is a star)
M ‘Y’ on m keboard seems temperamental.
Couldbeworse,myspacebarisbroken.
Honestly this seems to be one the editors can’t win.
They convert $ to £ and someone complains; they don’t and somebody else complains.
It really doesn’t matter does it?
Simple solution: “$200 (£130)”
I see your spacebar is fixed
Yes it would be a simple solution but overall I think translating it to GBP for us is the best system as what if the story contained Malaysian Ringgit or Australian $, do we scratch our heads, look it up on Google or thank the writer for translating it for us?
Well no of course it doesn’t matter. It’s a blog on the Internet, nothing matters on the Internet. I’m just having a shitty day and needed a moan.
LOL…. some things matter on the internet, I make my money through the internet but I hope your shitty day turns around
It will I’m leaving the studio in an hour.
Step one – create secondary account
Step two – Pocket silly Dad’s money
The older generation always fall for these scams online….
The Dad could maintain the account though (just change the password so the daughter can’t access it) then keep an eye on the friends to see if they suddenly all make friends with a new friend?
There’s a fine line between parenting and stalking. Stalking your child’s friends takes it to a whole new level
Trust me, when you have children and you’re trying to protect them the line is non-existent!
Stop trying to protect them, you can’t you can only hope to arm them with the means to protect themselves.
You have to know what they’re into to be able to arm them to be able to protect them, that’s where the stalking (surveillance) comes in.
Whatever helps you sleep at night…..
The best part of this article is that she plans to use the money for ‘stuff’. I like her.
Wise. As an employer and general observer of people, FB is possibly the most destructive development of recent history. If you take a person who has never used social media (MySpace and YouTube excepted, because they are about creativity, not ‘contacts’ or other vanity concepts), on the whole, you will notice the following changes in their personality, no matter their age:
1. Increasingly vain.
2. Increasingly worried about what others are doing. IE, A is having more fun and is better looking than me.
3. Unable to focus on the task at hand for more than a limited, time, including watching a movie.
4. Increasingly rude and lacking in compassion towards others. In particular, when in the company of others, they will in fact also exists in an alternate social universe, diluting the bond with those around them, from friends to family to employer.
Why is this you may well ask?
Because technology is no substitute for the complexities and character building attributes of real life.
Elephants don’t use social media, and are all the better creatures for it.
If it was my daughter, it would be instalment payments for a lifetime off social media, unless said social media was purely about pro active creative expression.
Silly girl could have got more money than that.
You can image her friends reaction to the news.
“OMG! Amazgog!!! Her Dad gave her $150 for not going on fb??? Must click ‘like’! Oh wow, where has she gone?”
Just think of the confusion this as caused…
I love it! Thumbs up for the creative father!
I love it! Thumbs up for the creative father!
Ohh and isn’t FB allowed form 16 years?!