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too early to say where the feature is headed. So maybe?
Integrating actual micropayments for real & virtual goods and services would be far more lucrative in the long run. My friends on facebook are the people that I have casual debts with. Why not let me settle my burrito tab the next morning with one click on Facebook?
Fall 2007 Fbook supposedly talked about micropayments w 3rd party app devs and April 2009 we see a field-test of credits for status updates or ..wait.. now I get it: Soon you can attach credits to friend request and - viola - we have a real economy for facebook users to earn credits by buying and selling friendship; it's brilliant it's.. it's... it's "Friends For Sale".. ugh.
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john doe has extra concert tickets to give away to the first person to respond to this.
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john smith loves his family.
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jane doe is.
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My overall problem is --- what happens if the recipient doesn't spend the credits? Is this like the "gift card" or "travelers checks" or "rebates" process where companies make as much (or more) money on the un-redeemed items as they do on the actual product.
I for one would not use this unless there was a bigger benefit to spending it -- for example you actually gifted some type of item or extended feature and not just "credits".
it also somewhat reminds me of a project i started in 2006 called fundavlog and started a blog at crowdfunding.com to log development of the idea. i had implemented a paypal powered credit system and added a feature right along with comments and ratings (on each videoblog post) that let users add as many pennies/credits as they could. one-click allowed for incrementing pennies or dollar amounts. the recipient of funds could cash out all or some of their money or leave it in the 'bank' so they can reciprocate by giving to others.
no fees were taken as the way i implemented paypal avoided any transaction costs. so instead, i was going to rely on the community donating funds to the project itself to help pay for hosting or just tip for development time etc.
it was a project in social capitalism and self-sustaining community of video creators via the concept of what i called crowdfunding.
real job/life prevented continued development , however.
i think last.fm is a pioneer in the age on profit.... facebook will become a child???
i hope no.