| Soleron said: 1. Even if you don't think so, your reward neurotransmitters will likely compel you to search more often than you otherwise would have. It will be costing you time. If you were doing 125 searches/week before you signed up then you're addicted to the internet and that's a different problem. 2. Just because it doesn't cost money doesn't mean it is free. Your data will be sent to third parties which will, especially as this kind of data collection is used more, result in junk mail, cold calling, unwanted sales pitches, a change in what is shown to you on shopping websites. Even if that's just a small risk, 1 dollar/week is not good enough to be worth the chance of that happening. 3. You'll be spending 10 minutes a week checking your points or redeeming something. 10 minutes at US minimum wage is a dollar, right? |
1. True, you probably would spend more time on the internet. However, by 'wasting time' you assume that the time 'wasted' is time that would have otherwise been used to make money. That's likely not the case. It more likely would be substituting time out of their free time, therefore converting their free time to money-generating time. Also, you're making a rather extreme leap by going from "spending more time on the internet" to "being addicted to the internet." That's a huge assimption
2. What leads you to assume that the junkmail/spam from after joining the rewards program will be more frequent than jumkmail/spam before joining the program?
3. More assumptions. Firstly,you're assuming how often people will be checking their points. Secondly, you're assuming that people will use those 10 minutes in place of 10 minutes that they would have used to make money. That's likely not the case. It's likely the time people spend checking points/searching the internet willl substitute time that would have been otherwise been useless.
