A Massachusetts dad was happy to pay his teen daughter $200 to quit Facebook for 5 months. He even drew up an official “Facebook Deactivation Agreement.”
Rachel Baier, a 14-year-old high school student in Wellesley, Mass., agreed to stay away from the popular social network if her dad delivered the cash. Under the agreement, Rachel will get $50 of her payment in April and then another $150 in June if she honors the contract.
In order to make sure she honors her word, the teen’s dad, Paul Baier, will retain access of her account and change the password so his daughter can’t reactivate it. To be clear, the entire thing was his daughter’s idea to make some extra cash. She initially asked for $70, but then upped the amount when she considered she would have to kick Facebook for five months.
“She mostly wanted and needed the money as she has been frustrated by not finding babysitting jobs. She is honors student but she says Facebook can be distracting,” Baier told the Yahoo! News blog “The Sideshow.”
The dad hopes the agreement will somehow lead to a long-term trend where his daughter doesn’t have to be on Facebook 24/7.
“I’ve realized that she is part of generation of kids that has grown up on Facebook. She’s been on it for two years full-time. This is two years of 24/7 teen discussion of friends, clothes, parties, etc,” he added. “They can’t get away from it. I’m proud she recognized the benefit of a hiatus. She plans to go on using it after the contract end.”






















































































































PK_SEA
Feb. 7, 2013 at 3:00pmArticle says she is 14 years old and has been on facebook for 2 years. The terms of use on facebook states you must be at least 13 years of age. Facebook should be deleting her account for misuse.
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Camptown Races
Feb. 7, 2013 at 12:18pmHis wife then wrote up an agreement and said….
“Honey, if you give me five hundred dollars, I will stop entertaining all the offers for sex from my former high school boyfriends on facebook while your away at work…..!!! DEAL??? “
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DLG123
Feb. 7, 2013 at 1:10pmLmao!!!
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Camptown Races
Feb. 7, 2013 at 12:13pmIn our house, it goes something like this……:
Son: Hey Dad, will you pay me two hundred dollars for me to quit facebook for five months?
Dad: Why sure son, Now you only owe me three hundred dollars for the remaining balance of the internet service you hog to play your XBOX online.
Way to go Mr. Baier…. You’ve just taught your little princess absolutely NOTHING except how to extort money from her future ex husband….. Nice job, douche…..
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PK_SEA
Feb. 7, 2013 at 3:03pmGet over yourself. The father was helping her daughter get some money as she couldn’t get many babysitting jobs. It’s win-win for both.
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BlasberryStrat
Feb. 7, 2013 at 12:02pm“Honey, take out the garbage”
“Cost ya $100″
“Honey, do your home work”
“Cost ya $300″
“Honey, time for school”
“Cost ya $200 every day”
“Honey, respect your parents”
“COST YA!!!”
Slap this girl’s mouth, tell her you’re the parent and she’s the child, take her ‘electronic babysitter’s’ away!
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G-WHIZ
Feb. 7, 2013 at 11:31amSo, you really think you have “removed youself” from F.Book?? All your info has been read and recoerded by billions all over the world. Plus they still will sell your info to the highest bidder(s)!
When you go to “re-up”, you’ll find all your info is till there and all they need is your “OK”.
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WhisperingVoice
Feb. 7, 2013 at 9:57amReading the comments, most of you didn’t read the article very well. She is the one who decided to give it up so she could make cash. The dad is trying to give his daughter an opportunity to do something that would be hard and make sure she has an incentive to follow through. This isn’t the daughter being out of hand. This is the daughter doing something I wish a lot of teenagers did. Voluntarily stepping away from social media. Personally, I don’t own a smartphone. Because I know it promotes the incessant need to check it every 5 minutes. Seriously people, how many of you could give up social media for this amount of time? And now that I am thinking about it. How many of you are all about parental rights, and then when this parent does something you don’t agree with, you are all over him? If parents have rights, let them have them. You can’t have it both ways. Nanny states suck because they take away a parents rights to raise their children in the way they choose, and you can’t presume you have the moral authority to “to know better” how he should raise his child. This is a parents choice, respect it or don’t. But, don’t take the “Nanny” role and say you know better. I hope the parent and child both learn and enjoy the experience of this agreement. Good luck.
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Alternative_Thought
Feb. 7, 2013 at 8:18amWhat an effeminate dad. Your kids should not be let loose on the computer and you should not have to pay them to obey you. No wonder kids are becoming more and more perverted.
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PK_SEA
Feb. 7, 2013 at 3:06pmRead the article before commenting. Daughter couldn’t get many babysitting jobs and needed some money. Father tried to help, and made a deal to give her some cash if she stopped using fb for a while. He could have just as easily made her do some other chores around the house instead. I assume since she will be off of fb, she will probably end up doing some extra chores anyway.
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PlanetReality
Feb. 7, 2013 at 7:06amExactly what is wrong with parenting today, THERE IS NONE!!!
PAY HER??? just when u think u heard it ALL!!!
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bugstoo
Feb. 7, 2013 at 6:33amI gave up facebook 5 months ago and find a lot of time now to do other stuff that more rewarding!
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1FreeVoice
Feb. 7, 2013 at 12:36amHmmm. If she is “hooked ” on social media, how hard would it be for her to set up another account?
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American Soldier (Separated)
Feb. 7, 2013 at 1:14amMore than likely this will happen, although the vanity of not having all of her… 1000′s of friends from her main account might be enough to not do that.
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KyleD
Feb. 7, 2013 at 4:32amThe nature of social media would either prevent her from wanting to do that or prevent her from being able to hide that.
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siennasun
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:49pmSome of your comments are a joke. All my nieces got Kindles for Christmas. Fact. Kids are going to use Social Networks. Fact. For the person who the daughter was getting calls from all over the country..that is down right creepy. Fact. I think this is perfect. How many of you ‘parents’ could stay away from your computer, cell phone, TV for 5 months. My guess ..0.
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Mike76
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:29pmWhen did this “Dad” forget that HE is the parent – you don’t negotiate or make deals with your children when their best interests are at stake. Perhaps that’s why he lost his daughter to Facebook in the first place – because he didn’t have the stones to set boundaries.
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PK_SEA
Feb. 7, 2013 at 3:07pmRe-read the article please!
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homekeeper
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:55pmWhat is a parent doing letting a 14 year old girl have a Facebook in the first place!?
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DEFCON4
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:52pmThose 5 months will give her time to work on her new book:
“How Children Raise Their Parents”
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:03pmLmao
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Mike76
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:29pmSpot. On.
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Keatonc333
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:53pmHAHA! perfect
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BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:42pmLove that she is so specific about what she plans to do with the money- “Stuff.”
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gyro
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:29pmgood stuff better
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LakeHartwellSailor
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:41pmI’m trying to figure out what my price would be to quit checking out The Blaze for five months….hhhmmm…
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kindling
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:34pmI will not let my kids go on social sites at all. So my teen goes to a friend’s house and use their facebook page and I suddenly find we are getting phone calls from people from all over the country. I told the friend’s parents what the kids were doing and they were very upset, yet they still have their facebook pages. I simply will not let them go back to that families house and now I find my teen is able to use computers at school. It is like dropping your children off on a street corner in the middle of town. Kids do not understand how dangerous it is to give out personal information.
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LakeHartwellSailor
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:44pmThe technologies are ubiquitous…all you need is a front end, just supply user/password on the inteface…there are endless devices to accomplish that.
Man, I’m glad I never had children, I would have a helluva lot more grey hair than I do now.
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neverending
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:48pmso true and so few see it.
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The-Monk
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:28pmThat’s not 5 months….
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Maxim Crux
Feb. 6, 2013 at 9:20pmlike that is going to work. how about taking away the computer, the cell phone and everything else. If she wants it, she can buy her own crap
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Mike76
Feb. 6, 2013 at 10:31pmTrue ’nuff. If he was a real parent, he wouldn’t be afraid to direct his child’s development without bribing her to do what’s in her own best interests. He would lay down the rules and enforce the consequences and teach her lessons about respect and discipline.
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