Spot a dog, post it, win points. Voila, your newsfeed is now full of cool dogs.
Dogspotting is only thing that can save Facebook.
Reid Paskiewicz / Via Facebook: 10487409466
If you're getting burnt out on Facebook, here's my advice: join a few groups. Facebook groups is where all the fun action is now. One of the weirdest yet most consistently rewarding groups is "Dogspotting", a game where people post photos of dogs and fellow group members assign semi-arbitrary points to each photo.
Dogspotting as a sport started long before the Facebook group among a small group of friends, but the group has recently become incredibly popular, with over 22,000 members now.
The sport was invented by Boston resident John Savoia. "Its something I came up with in 2006 and just shared with a couple friends," he told BuzzFeed News. "This was before mass smartphone adoption and picture messaging and such. All we did was keep track of daily point totals. It was all about the points and gamifying looking at dogs. No cute factor then."
The rules are fairly simple: post a photo of a dog you spotted somewhere, and the group assigns points. Don't post "known dogs", i.e. your own dog (negative points are assigned for known dogs).
You spot a dog, post it, and get points.
Reid Paskiewicz / Via Facebook: 10487409466
A particularly high-scoring dog spot:
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