How much money would it take to get you to turn over the keys to your Facebook account?
Father Paul Baier paid his 14-year-old daughter $200 to stay off Facebook until the end of the school year.
The Internet has been ablaze with comments and reaction ever since Baier posted a photo of the official contract they’d both signed on his blog. Both father and daughter are “Shocked” about all the attention.
Plenty of assumptions are being made about this contract, with more than a few commenters on both Baier’s personal blog and on news stories accusing the father of either forcing the high school freshman into the agreement, or bribing her into responsible behavior.
Such accusations have little in common with how this whole deal came about, Baier says. “It’s simpler than that,” he says. His daughter was frustrated she couldn’t find babysitting jobs and couldn’t earn much through chores, so she made a proposal to her pop. If she stayed off Facebook until the end of the school year, would he pay her $200? “I told her to go away, ‘there’s no way you can live without out Facebook.’”
But she came back two days later, and asked again. This time, Baier agreed, and they signed a contract. She handed over her password so that he could change it, making it all the harder for his daughter to breach their business arrangement.
What do you think? Is this an example of a daughter’s entrepreneurship and ingenuity, or a parent resorting to bribery?
From Digital Life Today.
