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SOCIAL MEDIA By Ji Hyun Park on October 18, 2010 10:03 AM

Can $300 Buy You a Month Off Facebook?

Here’s a way to keep your teen offFacebook: bribery.

Melynda Rushing, a mother of six in NorthCarolina, paid her daughter Alyssa $300not to use the popular social networkingsite for a month, insisting that the extratime go towards her studies at University ofSouth Carolina.

For Alyssa, the idea became an easy way to“Facebook detox.” She told The CharlotteObserver, “It was actually a lot harder thefirst couple of days. I didn’t know I wastruly addicted.”

With teens and young adults logging on to Facebook an average of 4 hours daily, is it reallypossible for students to wean themselves off this new medium of procrastination?

Since taking on her mother’s challenge, Alyssa says she’s turned in three class papers early.“It’s definitely made me see I could spend my time more wisely,” she said. “Now that I see Ican stay off it … I might not even go on every day.”

We’ll sure Mom will be the judge of that on Oct. 19, when the fast draws to a close.

: Facebook, WebNewser

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