Question: If you could do anything, what would it be?
Answer: Make money by doing exactly what I do now: nothing.
You can’t pretend the thought hasn’t crossed your mind when people ask you what you want to do. How great would it be to get paid for just being yourself? Think of famous celebrities that make bank just off of wearing a certain brand’s sunglasses. The idea of a “walking advertisement” may apply only to those in Hollywood, but with the launch of the new app Slidejoy, you can make money by going about your day to day.
Slidejoy is an app that puts advertisements as your home screen and pays you every time you swipe your phone.
We slide our phones, on average, 150 times a day, according to Business Insider Australia. But if I had to guess, I’d say boring lectures and nonstop Snapchats puts our age group above the national average.
It works like this: By sliding right on your phone, you ignore the advertisement and it goes away. By sliding left, you are redirected to the advertisement’s video, website, etc. which you can choose to leave at any time. But no matter what you slide, you still get paid. Hence the joy in the slide!
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Participants are currently making approximately 10 cents a day, which is about $3 a month. Although $3 a month may not seem like much, that’s adds up to $36 a year — for doing nothing. And the payment will only go up from there as more advertisers are added to this growing app.
Slidejoy is currently available only for the Android, but once the company works out the kinks it will be available for the iPhone, too.
“It’s easier on the Android because it’s a lot more flexible,” Seo said. “The iPhone only has one way to slide, so it will be more difficult.”
It launched only two months ago and already has 18,000 users.
Robert Seo, CEO of Slidejoy, explains that apart from the extra change that you make every month, users also enjoy the additional value of learning about new things. Advertisements featured on Slidejoy can be anything from videos to coupons to special deals.
We quickly run by the annoying flyers thrown in our face while walk through Turrlington, but Slidejoy offers ads we can’t ignore. For once, we’re presented the opportunity of making extra cash for essentially doing nothing.
Besides offering participants money for doing nothing and knowledge about new products and offers , Slidejoy also supports various charities by offering users the option of sending personal earnings to nonprofit organizations such as the American Red Cross, Good Will and Teach for America.
My only concern regarding Slidejoy come from a deeper look into the fact that our society has become a giant ad campaign. Look around you – stickers in your room, billboards on the road and free things handed out so you become a walking billboard yourself. Slidejoy may be a great way to make a few bucks, but it also represents a slippery slope of advertisements’ taking over our lives.
We can either get with the program and accept advertising’s growing presence in daily life, or we can pretend to live in a world where mass marketing doesn’t dictate what we do and consume.
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Personally, I’ve embraced the former — if I can make a little money off the advertising monster by simply sliding my fingers on a screen, then I will.
I guess I just added some joy to my day.
