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Facebook app that blackmails you to be more productive

Platform publishes embarrassing photos to blackmail users into being more productive

Aherk! threatens to publish embarrassing photos to users’ Facebook profiles, in order to encourage them to complete tasks within a deadline.

9th May 2012 in Lifestyle & Leisure.

via springwise.com

This app is simple:

The user defines a goal
The user uploads a compromising picture
The users friends decides if the user reached the timebound goal - if not, the picture get's posted

I'm a big fan of social pressure to achieve goals. My biggest concern here, wouldn't friends indicate that the user did not achieve their goal...even if the user did...just to embarrass their friends. That's what friends do.

What do you think?

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President vs Congress. An awkward dialogue.

I'm a big fan of President Obama and his team communicating directly with the American people. It breathes true democracy, transparancy and getting everyone (that wants to be) involved. But more and more the white house is sending out emails asking the people to put pressure on Congress.

I get that that needs to be done to get things moving along. But isn't that a sign of a broken system. It seems to be a lot of effort for a president to lobby the American people to go back to congress and lobby them to get decisions pushed through. That sentence alone

I'm not American and have a complete outside perspective. What do you Americans think?

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