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Karmawish: A Social Networking Site for Doing Good Deeds

By John Farrier in Blog & Internet on Jul 9, 2009 at 5:28 pm


Karmawish is a new social networking site that hooks you up with other people who need help. Helping them earns you karma points, which gives you access to help that you need from others as life trips you up.

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  1. Alex
    Jul 9th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Whatever happens to "a good deed is its own reward"?

  2. John
    Jul 9th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Rarely is altruism truly altruistic. At minimum, the giver feels good about him/herself for having done a good thing.

  3. eni
    Jul 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    @John: So?

  4. Johnny Cat
    Jul 9th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    Isn't this simply assurance that a good deed will be its own reward?

  5. Timm
    Jul 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    A lot of overthinking going on here. Just sign in and reap the benifits of being a good soul...

  6. Reechard
    Jul 9th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    Cool! Reminds me of couchsurfing.com. This will be really great once it has enough members.

  7. Him
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 12:23 am

    This reminds me of "Pay it Forward", I just wish it had the same message.

  8. Video Game Dork
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 5:25 am

    Pay it Porward was exponential (you do three good deeds when you receive one), and this seems linear (one for one, based on the 'value' of the good dead).

    As for 'making sure that a good deed IS it's own reward', no this isn't that. The point of that axiom is that doing the good deed is itself a reward to the do, not that they will be 'rewarded' in some way in the future. For this site, you'd have to modify the sayign to say something like "A good deed deserves another." or somthing like that.

  9. birdie1
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 8:33 am

    reminds me of yahoo answers

  10. dutchboy
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    John

    Rarely is altruism truly altruistic. At minimum, the giver feels good about him/herself for having done a good thing.

    You think to much dude.

  11. Video Game Dork
    Jul 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    I don't think he thinks to much. I just think he stated something obvious, but inserted an unneeded cynicsm.. Doing a good deed does make someone feel good. But we still call that altruism (even though we get the 'benefit' of feeling good). Its no less altruist if your only 'reward' is being happy that you did a good deed (thus going back to the 'a good deed is its own reward' thing).

  12. ted
    Jul 11th, 2009 at 5:58 am

    Is there a place called Deathwish?

  13. Guillaume Besson
    Oct 13th, 2009 at 9:05 am

    They have released a new version recently!
    4 languages and it's much more intuitive.
    Worth a visit!

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