The social answer to the economic crisis

Written on October 7th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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I came a cross a few interesting new web apps that maybe represent the social answer to the economic crisis we are living today.The first one is called Fiverr where the slogan is “The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5″. And that’s exactly what it is. A kind of social network where people offer the most strange performances and services for just 5$!

Even if the bigger number of proposals are technical ones (such as debugging web sites, installing wordpress themes, etc.), you can also find pretty strange announcements such as: “I will call your girl and tell her that you are gay for $5″, or “I will send you

a hi res photo of me doing any yoga pose for $5″, or “I will be your friend and send you an email every day for 14 days telling you how wonderful you are for $5″…

The other (very similar) service is called TenBux. Given the “expensive” quotation – from 5$ to 10$ – you can find here more complex offers, which in some cases really seem to be unrealistic, given the amount of time needed. Great attention is on social media and new marketing concepts, such as “I will send an email ad to 92,000 people about your business or website for $10″, or “I will make a basic but nice-looking blogger blog for $10″. Silly proposals also play a key role, like: “I will eat a whole onion and send you a video for $5″, or “I will sing happy birthday in spanish whilst drunk to your chosen person for $10″.

These, and probably other web sites, are an interesting phenomenon a proof of evidence of what the social media experience has been dragged and how an economic crisis can lead people to work for a few bucks.

  • Hi, I just want to share this website with you as well. Homegiggers is offering the same services as fiverr. I have been looking for websites such as those because I want to earn money while having a full time job.

    I have been working online myself for two years now and have been making my living through getting offers or projects from different people. I started out with odesk and other similar sites that you have mentioned and employers there paid really well. People just have to be patient and not resort to those "get rich quick schemes" because they are nothing but rubbish.
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