Quick post!
Today, on a FriendFeed timeline near me, this popped up ( you can pop it up too by click clicking it, it’s much more readable I assure thee, lol ):
Akoha @ FriendFeed
As I write that event occurred like 14 minutes ago, but it’s destined to popup on my twhirl for the rest of the day with likes and comments, wtv, that’s not the point.
Thing is, I find this service.. good, but funny at the same time. To sum it up, you buy cards/decks, and each card represents an activity like offer a drink/coffee/beer/some nice gesture, the card holder passes the card to the person to whom he offers the coffee, that person inserts the card unique code on the Akoha website et voilà, the person who bought the card gets Karma points, so that no random old lady rams into him and making him loose the prized lottery ticket.
What I find funny is the fact that hundreds(?) of people will make good deeds, if you can call ‘em that, maybe because of a website told them to and offers them points for every deed.
Am I the only one to whom this reminds of those games you do with kids so that they do their homework? “do it and you get a candy.. or wtv”, just a thought, I’m not wasting monay on a service that tells me how many good deeds I’ve done so far.
Nice service though, if that’s what it takes..
Ah yes, btw: It’s Snowing on Mars.
2 Comments
Nice article. As an exited user – the one who wrote about the service on friendfeed – I have to tell you two things tho:
1) I don’t think I’ll be making good deeds just to earn points, the thing with this is that it turns making good deeds a funnier experience:
2) You don’t have to waste any money on the service. I’m using the service, using the deck of cards they gave me. I believe that they might, in the future, sell the cards (or t-shirts, or something else) in a way to fund their project. I don’t think I’ll turn out to be a paying user, unless they keep surprising me with a good service – which until now they’re succeeding.
Great you liked it and thanks for the comment.
I signed up btw, hope I get a ‘help a tourist’ card =] heh.