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Spread The Love (And Pay Us)
Digitus1337 writes "Wired has an article up about a new online service known as 'FunHi.' You sign up and join a community, and give your fellows gifts, but as Wired has reported, 'these are not ordinary gifts. They're purely digital: little flashing icons of cars, planes, diamond rings and other virtual representations of expensive items included in messages members send each other. And FunHi members don't seem to care that the real money they're spending on the gifts, at prices as high as $30 an item, is going straight into the company's coffers." This leaves just one question unanswered... why didn't I think of this?" It sounds like an April Fool's Joke, but then, so does online trading of Everquest loot.
What about the Snobby Greedy Bitch... the one who thinks these gifts are reprsentative of real ones?
Then $30 will seem quite inexpensive.
I'd love you more if you just gave me the money...
... maybe the people who are prepared to pay out cash for virtual items will be so busy trading their nonexistent gifts they won't have time to breed, and the average IQ will go up. At the very least, it should keep the terminally gullible out of circulation.
I'm training myself on the internet. It's fascinating. I'm doing pornography. It's amazing how much these suckers will pay for photographs of chicks. And it doesn't matter if they're fat or ugly or what.
Paying for crappy porn.. that's bad. But paying 30 bucks for a stupid icon? These people are dumber than that guy that loves his spam.
That you spend real life money on..
Their buzz system (scroll down) is a direct ripoff of eBay's feedback system. Wonder how long they get sued for that?
I have blog like everyone else
The article mentions that the most popular members are invariably attractive females whose pictures show them scantily clad and in sexy poses.
Seeing as this "buying nothing" idea is a capitalist's dream, I think it's only a matter of time before these attractive females rise up above their alleged vapidity to realize that they can control the world. As much as I hate to admit it, think about it: who would you vote for between George W. and Britney Spears?
It's good to know that there are plenty of suckers left in the world, I was getting worried that my combo hair brush, vegetable peeler and ice skate sharpener wasn't going to sell!
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
gf: LIKEOMGWTF!!!!11
me: but it's the thought that counts, right?
...of P.T. Barnum global holdings.
I just bought them some pictures of food.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
But it's a great way to make your stock go up and get out early!!
1. Invent dumb idea
2. Have rich investor modify the stock price
3. Profit!
4. RUN!
Mod +5 Drunk
Of course, being a young good-looking female doesn't hurt, as the members with the most fans are all women whose pictures show them in sexy, alluring poses.
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The service aims, according to what might be called its bylaws, to foster purely positive and friendly interactions.
Sheesh. Why not just call it "FunHo" and be done with it?
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>males are supposed to demonstrate their wealth and prowess by not having to care about expending costly resources on useless pursuits.
So are you saying that all the slashdot trolls are demonstrating their mating suitability?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Suddenly, fake diamond-ring-icons will threaten the natural diamond-ring-icon cartel, and FunHi will have to spend millions researching and building devices for distinguishing between the natural and fake icons; millions more advertising that only "Natural Diamond-Ring-Icons" show real love.
You see ... you cynics ... ripping off the gullible is not just the fast-track to the gravy train. Getting a sustainable revenue channel by scamming the soft-of-the-brain is harder than it looks.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
No, the perfect woman would accept a pearl necklace. On a nightly basis.
This place is a horrific written image of pain.
I quote:
My eyes, they bleed!
My brain, it bleeds!
YOU wouldn't pay for this.
But somebody who didn't understand technology and didn't want to MIGHT pay for it because they thought it was a cute idea. These are the same people who buy new Sims add-ons for the additional wallpaper and landscaping. These are the people keeing Pier 1, Tuesday Morning and the Christmas Tree Shop in business. These are the same people who keep buying me candles, picture frames and other tchotchkes when what I really need is a new fucking laptop.
In short, women will pay for this, because it is useless but kind of cute and not too expensive.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Here I just saved those people a ton of cash:
http://www.funhi.com//images/gifts/46.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/20.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/33.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/1.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/3.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/30.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/35.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/39.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/22.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/17.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/11.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/23.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/14.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/49.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/25.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/41.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/27.gif
http://www.funhi.com/images/gifts/51.gif
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Thank God my real-world, emotion-having girlfriend is more concerned about feeding the hungry and stopping de-facro slavery and international economic imperalism than about impressing her friends with carbon rocks.
And she's not only ethical, she's hot!
STOP . AMERICA . NOW