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Father Pays Daughter to Quit Facebook

$200 for five months

Reason Staff | 2.8.2013 5:40 PM

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A Boston-area father used a powerful incentive to lure his teenage daughter off of the social networking site Facebook: money.

Paul Baier drew up a contract, and offered his daughter $200 cash if she could stay off Facebook for five months. Baier posted about the contract on his blog, Practical Sustainability on Tuesday.

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