People spend real money to buy fake money! Not only that, but they waste time that they could have spent making money, to use whatever they bought with the fake money! As much as I love technology, I hate it when technology tries to get the best of me. Game theory is a great example. There are a lot of aspects to it, but essentially, game theory is used to get users to feel a need to either remain somewhere or do something. Prime examples are second life, Farmville, mafia wars, the Sims, etc. Zynga is the biggest company out there that creates apps for Facebook, and it blows my mind that the majority of its revenue comes from an online economy. As in people buy gold (or whatever) within a game using real money. I just find it so sad (borderline pathetic) when people turn their potential off and start investing in unproductivity. To reference and earlier post, I feel that unproductivity is the greatest threat that the internet has to offer. If we are not willing to take a step back and see technology (particularly the internet) for what it really is, as a tool to help us accomplish, then we are doomed as a society. As the wise man tells us: “do not spend money on that which is of no worth.”
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