Most people do n’t need any boost to take a selfie . look into Instagram , or Facebook , or your text messages , or , hell , eventhenews . But it ’s the very ubiquity of selfies that has thePay Your Selfieapp happen ways for the denizens of the net to monetize those lovable selfies .
Launched back in September , the app offers users a task , always involving a selfie , for which they ’ll get paid . Take a selfie with your toothpaste . Take a selfie with your primal ringing . Take a selfie with your " favorite bottle of every day wine-colored . " defrayal range from 20 cents to $ 1 per selfie , and once a drug user has taken enough to hit $ 20 , they can have a check sent right to their doorstep ( or they can have that money donated to charity ) .
How does it operate ? Corporations are compensate on a per - betrothal base for the valuable information in those pictures .
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If users are asked to complete a task involving toothpaste , selective information can be amass by Crest to learn about consumer habits . Through those selfies — mostly taken by millennials , 60 % in the 18 - 34 bracket and 70 % female — the party get word that a surprising number of mass were brush their teeth between four and six pm . They ’ll also know if you did n’t brush your tooth on Thursday . Which is porcine .
With privacy fearsimpacting substance abuser behavioracross the internet , make up Your Selfie form of cut to the heart of the site . Almost everything done online is mined . You look up a formula for sweet potato taco , then check your email and Google is feeding you an advertizing for Seamless . That ’s not serendipity . It ’s … wait , actually … rank in does sound kind of full …
The departure here is that it ’s seemingly all out in the open and they do n’t sell individualized information . Just the photograph .
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When company are n’t paying for information , the app offer up fun ( assuming you think selfies are fun ) ante up task to keep user engaged . Though that does n’t mean that they are n’t still looking for selective information .
“ We see through all selfies , ” suppose co - founder Kristen Holman . “ We have more than 500,000 uploaded so far . We are always looking for interesting trends . ”
New York - free-base Pay Your Selfie user Maggie Ewen does n’t mind though . “ I have intercourse that ’s what it ’s used for . I know it ’s used for market inquiry , so I do n’t see it as a usurpation of concealment . They make it very clear that they can use [ the selfies ] for market research . ”
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It ’s ferment so far . The society has over 100,000 registered users . " Our tasks are fun and drive engagement , " says Holman . " People really wish to take selfies . "
Indeedthey do .
If this continues to function out , peradventure they can try a service where they pay everyone on Facebook to stopstreaming themselves drive . gravely . Who are you people ?
