The best way to thank MFP

ljoycew

My Fitness Pal is an amazing site that's TOTALLY FREE, and it changes lives!

Compare that to Weight Watchers and all of the millions of expensive weight loss solutions out there.

Been reading some very inspiring success stories on this board and wanted to remind folks:

The best way to "pay" MFP for their great site, great database, and great community is to CLICK ON ADS.

Websites make money when people do this.

I click on ads I don't give a whit about, just as a "thank you" to sites I love.

Think of ad clicks as a tip jar.




FROM:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/08/ads-are-the-new.html

Ads are the new online tip jar
"I never click on ads."

It's almost a badge of honor to say that. The subtext is, "I'm too smart/busy to waste my time doing that," or perhaps, "I don't want someone to sell my attention."

But the real effect is that you're starving great content.

I can say this because there are no ads here but,

If you like what you're reading, click an ad to say thanks.

Pretty simple, but not an accepted online protocol, at least not yet.

If every time you read a blog post or bit of online content you enjoyed you clicked on an ad to say thanks, the economics of the web would change immediately. You don't have to buy anything (though it's fine if you do). You just have to honor the writer by giving them a click.

You still get what you pay for, even if you pay with attention.

TwoPointZero

There are other threads around regarding this, and more than one person (including myself) advocate the following: have two levels of "membership" (for lack of a better word). The first would be free, and and the site would work just as it does now. The second would be a pay membership (I am thinking $1-2/month), where the _only_ difference would be that the ads are gone.

That is, I hear what you are saying, and I would really love to give/donate/subscribe, or whatever. But I f***ing hate ads . . .

buddy352

Great idea! I'm in!