If you earn 2,000 points for your cause on SocialVibe, they send you a pink stress ball. I’m at 4,132 points so far, so with 100 points equaling 457 gallons (according to their Facebook app), that’s over 18,000 gallons earned for charity: water so far by me. I’m hoping they add in some type of way to track your impact for whichever cause you support more accurately, just for your own statistical purposes. But regardless if they ever do, it’s nice to give back.
Yesterday I signed up for an account at SocialVibe, which is social network that allows you to raise money for causes that you want to support by choosing a sponsor and displaying a badge of that sponsor that they give you. I’m not a huge ad guy, so i like to avoid them as much as possible to avoid disrupting the time spent here for my visitors. But at the same time, this type of advertising has sort of drawn me to it. I think it’s the idea of taking something that you have, and using it to help enrich or improve someone else’s life or quality of life.
Personally I think the added social network aspect of it may be a bit much, as I’m already a member of the large well known ones, and really don’t need yet another one. But if that’s what it takes to keep them running and around, I’m for it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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