Would You Quit Facebook for $200?

by AdriHead Posted 2013/02/07 21:00:00

Related Topics: Facebook, Money, School, Social Networking, Technology, ABC, ABC News, News, Father, Cash, Massachusetts, Networking, Image, Images, Quit

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	Yes! Give me the money!	605 votes	79%
	No way! Facebook is priceless.	164 votes	21%

Which would you like more: your Facebook account or some cold, hard cash? A 14-year-old in Massachusetts went with the latter! Rachel Baier agreed to receive $200 from her dad in exchange for deactivating her Facebook account from now until the rest of the school year, which is about five months. In fact, the whole thing was her idea!

"She approached me. She has been frustrated she hasn't been able to find a babysitting job and she has been looking for ways to get cash," Paul Baier told ABC News. "So she asked, 'If I didn't use Facebook for so long would you pay me?'" The father apparently agreed, knowing that she spent hours on the social networking site when she could be doing more productive things.

This quirky news leads us to a similar inquiry: Would you quit Facebook if someone gave you money to do so?

ABCNEWS.GO.COM reports:
A dad is paying his 14-year old daughter to quit Facebook for six months.

abcnews reports dad paying 14-year daughter quit facebook

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jaxn-butterfly 2013/02/08 00:33:52

Yes! Give me the money!

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Hell to the effin' yes.
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Sidonia 2013/03/01 09:38:50

Yes! Give me the money!

I quit for free......

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Lucy Krueger 2013/02/17 19:24:49

No way! Facebook is priceless.

Nah, 200 bucks go away quickly.I need Facebook to keep in contact with friends.Perhaps If they offered me more money, I could think of a new way to stay in touch with my friends.

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adriennemariee 2013/02/13 17:18:03

Yes! Give me the money!

Facebook is annoying anyways its just full of drama and bragging

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PapaBC 2013/02/13 16:24:43

No way! Facebook is priceless.

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Actually $200 is too low for me. Maybe a few thousand would do it. If I went back on in a few years would I have to pay the money back?

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Immanuelson 2013/02/13 14:22:05

No way! Facebook is priceless.

hmmm

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Elaine Magliacane 2013/02/13 14:01:28

Yes! Give me the money!

Hell I'd quit for $5.... I visit maybe once a week... and find it getting more and more annoying with all the ads

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kill me now 2013/02/13 04:09:01

Yes! Give me the money!

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Hell ya
I don't Use it so I'll just make an account and get the money

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Naime 2013/02/13 04:07:53

Yes! Give me the money!

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Pff, I hated Facebook from the start.

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BVBaddict 2013/02/13 02:22:05

No way! Facebook is priceless.

its the only way i can keep in touch with my family and friends

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Chuck 2013/02/13 00:43:25

Yes! Give me the money!

I don't do Facebook,

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nightowl 2013/02/12 22:05:32

Yes! Give me the money!

Is this a trick question? ; )

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Andre 2013/02/12 21:40:18

Yes! Give me the money!

Hell yes, I do not use it anyways. When I see the phrase: How are you in the textbox, I always want to reply: :"Bored, that's why I'm here" Fortunately I never have been that bored yet. I go on Facebook out of necessity, mothin more, nothing less, and never post

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harley oldman 2013/02/12 18:16:43

Yes! Give me the money!

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HELL YES.....Sent me a couple of bucks ( $2.00) and I`m out of here.

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stevegtexas@aol.com 2013/02/12 17:09:07

No way! Facebook is priceless.

but maybe for a brand new car, a job, cell phone, clothes, and an efficiency apartment! bua ha ha ha ha ha!

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S123 2013/02/12 03:44:29

Yes! Give me the money!

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I don't have a Facebook account. Would it count if I just made an one and then deleted it?

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Annie Walls 2013/02/12 03:28:20

Yes! Give me the money!

Who still uses facebook? Twitter and instagram is where it's at!

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Lilou509 2013/02/12 02:37:45

Yes! Give me the money!

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We survived without facebook. And we can still keep it up.

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Ardwin_Viesheight 2013/02/12 00:33:53

No way! Facebook is priceless.

At least not for 200 bucks.

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blumunofky 2013/02/11 23:45:35

Yes! Give me the money!

If I had been able to foretell the future, I would have paid any amount of money to keep a friend from joining Facebook and ultimately hooking up with a gold-digging peroxide floozy skank who was just out there trolling for a nice-guy mark like him. Facebook is evil.

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Playerazzi 2013/02/11 19:51:54 (edited)

No way! Facebook is priceless.

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FB saves me more than that in phone bills and aggravation every year.

Add a few zeroes to that amount, and then we're talking.

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Miyabi 2013/02/11 18:09:31

No way! Facebook is priceless.

only 200$? over 800$ and it's a deal!

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Bolrog 2013/02/11 15:39:48

Yes! Give me the money!

Hell, I'll give a discount. I would leave for 100 dollars.

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Michael Hertel 2013/02/11 08:28:25

Yes! Give me the money!

I hardly ever use it.

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SteveMarine- JLA 2013/02/11 01:50:48

Yes! Give me the money!

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Lol I quit it for free... facebook is so stupid. All ur doing is posting everything you do....giving the government that much help spying on you is stupid. I made a facebook once I realized what its all about... I went ahead and erased it. I like my privacy.

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Angecael 2013/02/11 01:29:57

No way! Facebook is priceless.

I'd rather barter a bit. $200 goes fast.

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CKarliner 2013/02/11 00:23:54

Yes! Give me the money!

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Damn I'd have to join first. Waste of time

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ticker 2013/02/10 22:53:10
belle 2013/02/10 21:21:17

Yes! Give me the money!

Gee, I quit along time ago for nothing

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MetroidJunkie2009 2013/02/10 20:56:57

Yes! Give me the money!

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I quit Facebook then join one of the many other identical social network sites. Legal loophole for the win.

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Nathan Gallup 2013/02/10 18:42:08

No way! Facebook is priceless.

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Um maybe like $10,000?
There's a price on almost anything, I would do it, but not for a measly $200

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Nathan ... to Nathan ... 2013/02/10 18:43:19

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Okay, the story says 200 for no facebook for the rest of the school year, I would do that no problem

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blindfaith 2013/02/10 16:03:38

Yes! Give me the money!

LOL, I wouldn't even join it for $500.

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Alyssa D. 2013/02/10 15:59:00

Yes! Give me the money!

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Absolutely! There is no need 4 Facebook, anyway. Everybody just shut down Facebook and spend more time w/ REAL people.

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FlyHunt4Life 2013/02/10 15:18:02

Yes! Give me the money!

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I would quit facebook for nothing, I hate facebook! The reason i dont have one...... haha

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Reynolds 2013/02/10 12:01:04

Yes! Give me the money!

DUH

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♥♥♥AznGurl92♥♥♥ 2013/02/10 10:43:11 (edited)

No way! Facebook is priceless.

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I wouldn't quit facebook because it's how i can keep in touch with my friends and family. especially i can keep in touch with my best friend who recently moved, so I wouldn't give up my friendship with her for money. Also i wouldn't quit it for money

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Reverend von AME 2013/02/10 10:38:44

Yes! Give me the money!

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Should be 2,000 not 200.

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M 2013/02/10 08:49:51

Yes! Give me the money!

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Hell, you had me sold at $20.

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Dale 2013/02/10 07:06:11

Yes! Give me the money!

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Sure for only a limited time. Throw a few more zeros in there and I will stay off for good

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Red Rage 2013/02/10 06:46:33

Yes! Give me the money!

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$200 is nothing with the devalued fiat currency we call the US dollar. However, Facebook is a way of NSA spying on us so yes, I'd deactivate it.

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