$200 To Quit Facebook: Dad Pays 14-Year-Old To Log Off For Five Months
How does $200 to quit Facebook sound? The catch is you can’t sign on again for another five months, at the least.
That was they deal that Paul Baier offered his 14-year-old daughter. If she could make quit Facebook for five months, he promised to give her $200.
Baier wasn’t messing around with his $200 offer to quit Facebook, Yahoo! News noted. The dad actually drew up legal paperwork for his daughter, Rachel, to sign.
It may sound difficult for a 14-year-old to quit Facebook cold turkey, but Rachel Baier has some milestones along the way. If she can make it until mid-April she gets $50. She receives the rest of the money on June 26, should she make it that far.
To make sure his daughter doesn’t cheat on his $200 offer to quit Facebook, Paul asked Rachel for her password.
It sounds like the act of an overly concerned parent, but Paul said the $200 Facebook bet was his daughter’s idea.
“She mostly wanted and needed the money as she has been frustrated by not finding babysitting jobs. She is honors student but she says Facebook can be distracting.”
Rachel Baier isn’t the only one quitting Facebook, though not everyone is getting paid to do it. Back in June a Reuters/Ipsos poll also found that one-third of Facebook users claimed to be using the social network less over the last six months.
Paul Baier said he thinks its a good thing.
“I’ve realized that she is part of generation of kids that has grown up on Facebook. She’s been on it for two years full time. This is two years of 24/7 teen discussion of friends, clothes, parties, etc. They can’t get away from it. I’m proud she recognized the benefit of a hiatus. She plans to go on using it after the contract end.”
Rachel doesn’t seem to have any big plans for the $200 she’ll get to quit Facebook. She said she’s planning on getting “some stuff” with it.
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Posted: February 6, 2013
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Feb 7, 2013
How about be a parent and say "get the hell off the computer". Paying off your kid is sad.
Feb 7, 2013
Can't lie. I wish someone would pay me $200 to quit.
Feb 7, 2013
"stuff" lol good answer.
Feb 7, 2013
Paul Baier wanted publicity. Why did this even make the news.
Feb 7, 2013
I'd take that for a period of FOREVER!
Feb 7, 2013
Would you go to work without being paid? Why? Why not? Hint: incentive.
Feb 7, 2013
I am not interested in FB- just go on to see once every month.
Feb 7, 2013
Of course there is incentive but do I have to pay off my kids every time I discipline them. There are other incentives besides monetary value.
Feb 7, 2013
why pay money?-she wont stop then take the computer away-think parents think.
Feb 7, 2013
why does a 14 year old need facebook any ways?
Feb 7, 2013
Really people…does the world need to know you did your laundry and made tacos for dinner?
Feb 7, 2013
here's a hint dad….shut of the router.
Feb 7, 2013
i agree Shaun Patrick O'Rourke
Feb 7, 2013
Why do you? Why does anyone?
Feb 7, 2013
LMFAO.
Feb 7, 2013
because i am in college a long ways away from everyone that i know, its easier to connect with people long ways away
Feb 7, 2013
here's hint dad. dont allow computer access. make them go libaries for school work
Feb 7, 2013
It was more of a mutual agreement
with Dad offering to sweeten the pot.
It's not like Dad had to beg her to get off.
Try reading the whole article, next time.
Feb 7, 2013
As I post this w/ facebook comments… Dad is getting duped. She'll be on Instagram and Twitter instead. In fact facebook is getting lame for kids. Instagram is where its at now for them. Hide from their parents who got accounts too.
Feb 7, 2013
Well, a 14 y/o has no car
and probably no cellphone so
she IS far away from friends.
I wish people would read the whole article –
she wanted to cut back, anyway!
Feb 7, 2013
Zijing Ky – Oh, yeah, great idea when every other kid can use their computers.
Great way to fast-track a potential college applicant.
Feb 7, 2013
it says 50 dollars on the agreement though
Feb 7, 2013
…Really?
Feb 7, 2013
And I can't get my 18 year old kid to join it, especially now he's off to Navy bootcamp! (No, he can't join while he's at boot camp but he can when he gets to his A school.) Maybe I'll give my kid 200 bucks anyway.
Feb 7, 2013
I think for a 14 years old is hard to find a job, I am not sure for what she needed the money but I guess it was for a good reason, she is an honors student and to be an honor student in high school is hard when I was in high school I was an honor student for some of my classes and it was very hard to keep up with the work, so she is right facebook can be very distracting and is very hard to stay away from fb, also I guess her idea of asking her father to do this bet with her is better than getting it from somewhere that she is not safe… this might not be the best way to gives her the money but as parents we all make mistake we are humans and we are allow to make them that's what make us a better person, I cant judge him because I had make mistakes plus I guess he is a good father because she is an honor student and I don't think he would just give her the money without knowing the reason why she needs it for… you guys don't have to agree but that what think…
Feb 7, 2013
That is a good investment.
Feb 7, 2013
or just block the ports from FB so no computer can go onto it until she makes another one under a diff name at 14 she prob has at least 3.
Feb 7, 2013
i had to retire after my last combat tour in Iraq but i still keep contact with my soldiers and they were in Africa on face book lol Army has good tek and sats are all over lol
Feb 7, 2013
Elizabeth Hoeveler I bet she does have a cell phone!
Feb 7, 2013
She should just come off Facebook and not take the bribe from dad, but rather donate some of her brains to tutoring or civic projects. What a joke.
Feb 7, 2013
what's stopping her from creating a secret one on a friends comp or a phone?
Feb 7, 2013
maybe you should have kept reading
Feb 7, 2013
also no where in the "contract" does it say she can't start a new one or go elsewhere (twitter, instagram…)… just says deactivate my account.
Feb 7, 2013
She can recover her password from her e-mail and change the password. Free $200 dollars.
Feb 7, 2013
And….why is this considered news worthy?
Feb 7, 2013
Deactivate Rachel Baier and activate Raych Baier… Collect $200 and enjoy Facebook! Lol
Feb 7, 2013
I'll take $200! Twitter is more entertaining anyway…
Feb 7, 2013
"That was they deal?" Spell check…
Feb 7, 2013
http://youtu.be/5_gigLPz5HQ
Feb 7, 2013
I agree paying your children is sad, but look at some that have been breeding, they are children themselves so how else would you expect them to raise their own?
Feb 7, 2013
The daughter is the one who offered to get off of it for money. Dad just agreed to it and he is not disciplining her for it. Read the article!!!
Feb 7, 2013
if her dad is willing to give her $200 just for leaving FB for 5 months, she probably has a better phone than me……….and i read the whole article, but the problem could be avoided all together with a 14 year old not having a FB…….that's what myspace was/is for
Feb 7, 2013
Give me a break….she can make a new account in 1 minute.
Feb 7, 2013
For what? To show that he has so much money? He is paying her $200 in 5 months…that's $40 a month. I'm sure she would make more than that babysitting part-time.
Feb 7, 2013
My dad simply quit paying for the internet and my 13 y/o sister doesn't get on facebook anymore. Problem solved… He's saving money and she's forced to quit.
Feb 8, 2013
Duh. It's not work; it's play. And FAR TOO MUCH of it. I agree with SPO'R. Paying your kids to do what they are told is a ridiculous notion.
Feb 8, 2013
To everyone who says "read the whole article": I did read it. And you aren't getting the bigger picture. Like the kids, all you see is someone paid someone else to quit facebook. And you want a piece of the action. So you'll continue to waste time on Complaintbook until someone ponys up some dough for you to cut the ties.