Reason.com - Free Minds and Free Markets

Culture

Father Pays Daughter to Quit Facebook

$200 for five months

Reason Staff | 2.8.2013 5:40 PM


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.

Reason Staff
CultureScience & TechnologyFacebookSocial MediaTeenagersFree SpeechTechnology