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Inside Facebook confirm rumors of Facebook testing a new virtual currency. Have we seen something like this before? A closed system, with lots of new people interacting with no real purpose –just sharin’ — and exchanging money for virtual goods? Well, yes we have, remember SecondLife? Of course, Facebook is way easier to use and much more popular.
If FBDollars take off, we can bring back the excited anthropologists and economists that dreamed up of true virtual economies (with virtual jobs), if not it will be just another add-on to what’s already a very noisy and crowded space (notice the efforts to help you filter out the noise, such as you can categorize your friends and voila! now you can pay attention to those you really care about and forget the other 678 ‘friends’)
June 1st, 2009 at 4:48 pm
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October 23rd, 2009 at 5:26 am
The point system encourages users to answer as many questions as they possibly can, up to their daily limit. ,