So I found this cool website http://www.freerice.com/. It's basically, it is a vocabulary game that caters to your vocabulary level, but it claims that for each words you get right you are giving rice to poor, hunger striken areas of the world.
At first I thought it was sketchy, but it actually makes sense. If I can make money just by writing something interesting enough that people want to advertise on my webblog, then I'm sure there is money in getting people to come to and stay at this website. The number of people that eventually catch onto this game would increase the chance that advertisers would want to pay for this space. It would also hold true then that the longer people play this game the "stickier" the advertisements are, in the advertising world this means just what it sounds like... people look at the page longer.
The fact that they choose to give these advertising revenues away to charity is therefore irrelevant. So....
Please play this game for just a few minutes. You may be feeding some poor hungry child in Africa AND you could be practicing your vocabulary at the same time.
Quote of the Day: Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. Muhammad Ali
Song of the Day: Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer
Mood Current/Thoughts: Why was I born into such opportunity? Why, at this very moment, are so many other people in this world worse off than me?
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