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This is possibly the lamest idea I've ever seen. Why would I give someone else credits? The only point is to trade them in for gifts, so I might as well just sp
by mattj 18y ago
This is possibly the lamest idea I've ever seen. Why would I give someone else credits? The only point is to trade them in for gifts, so I might as well just spend the points to buy gifts directly. Or, even better, just buy real gifts in the real world.
Is this Facebook's monetization strategy - turning the news feed into a pachinko parlor where a few content producers get worthless facebook currency (and facebook makes money on purchases of said worthless currency)?
- numair 18y agoFacebook has a large enough audience where they don't have to simply appeal to people with your level of intellect to generate meaningful revenue from a product/service. There are tons and tons of people who love wasting time with silly things such as this. We don't know if there are enough of those people to make this useful, but dismissing it outright isn't particularly productive.
- philwelch 18y agoIt's like they took a credible micropayment system, but decided to make all the micropayments entirely worthless. If you could cash out accumulated "credits" for real money, or earn "credits" for something more substantial than status updates (who's going to micropay you for a status update?), or even spend micropayments on something that's actually useful, it might be the start of an idea.