Facebook 'ViewPoints' Research App Will Pay You to Take Surveys

Facebook on Monday launched a new market place research app called Viewpoints that it says volition reward people for participating in surveys, tasks and enquiry. In an official weblog post announcing the launch, the company said: "We believe the best way to make products better is to become insights directly from people who employ them. We'll use these insights to improve products like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Portal and Oculus, and to benefit the broader community".

To bring together Viewpoints, users will need to provide their name, email accost, state of residence, date of birth and gender. Additionally, they may as well demand to share their exact location to authorize them for individual programs.

Before each program, the company will explain what information volition be collected, how information technology volition be used and how many points the user will receive for completing the program. "We'll let yous know how many points you demand in lodge to receive a payment, and every fourth dimension yous reach that amount of points, you lot'll receive a payment sent directly to your PayPal account", said the company. The company too promised to let users know how the information they provide through that plan volition be used.

The app, however, has drawn skepticism and ridicule from privacy advocates, many of whom claim that information technology is all the same another endeavor from Facebook to gather fifty-fifty more data on its users. It's fabricated worst past all the privacy scandals Facebook went through concluding twelvemonth which drove users to delete their Facebook account. To accost those concerns, Facebook say that data collected from the app will be used for internal research and won't be sold to third parties. "We also won't publicly share your Facebook Viewpoints activeness on Facebook or on other accounts you've linked without your permission", said the company.

However, given Facebook'due south long-standing disregard for information-related safeguards and a full lack of concern about users' privacy, it would be interesting to see how many people will exist willing to voluntarily sign-up for the new platform. If yous're even so willing to give information technology a shot, it's bachelor to download on the Play Shop or the App Shop.