Tuesday 1 March 2011

facebook app idea -I offer and I want

Like "6 degrees of separation", a test of Facebook might be how many possessions does someone need to offer on average before a want is met. Perhaps it's 5, for example. Are you willing to offer 5 things to your facebook friends for every want you have?
Instead of just clicking on Amazon or ebay, why not build with your friends the inventory of what you are wanting, and preface this with an inventory of what you are offering.
By building the inventory of a database of what you are offering & making requests for what you want, I'm  confident that you and your friends will save money and get more connected.

Just as Ecomodo had their biggest publicity breakthrough after they offered an iPad on-line, when making your offers, try stretching yourself in terms of offering things that are valuable and likely to be wanted. Choose popular items that you could do without for a few days or more eg:
  • a car
  • a beachhut
  • an Amazon kindle
  • an iphone
  • best-selling DVDs or books 
  • a range of tools and sporting/camping goods.
All of the above are available on freelender.org by the way; out of the car, beachhut, kindle, and iphone list, it's amazing to me that only the iphone -bought by Freelending CIC benefactors- has been borrowed so far!

If friends on facebook were aware of this perhaps this would change!

Until the facebook app is built by you or someone else, why not just use ecomodo.com for listing your wanted items and streetbank.com for posting your offers oin facebook and available to the other 6000 members of streetbank?

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