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by sumtechguy 1887 days ago
I had something happen to me that was similar. I was forever scrounging for points for this cocacola thing. One day I realized I had let some expire. I gathered all of them up and dumped them in the garbage and did a little dance in my kitchen yelling 'im free!' my wife thought I was nuts. I am now on the look out for engaging patterns companies use to draw you in. Point systems are one of them.
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> on the look out for engaging patterns companies use to draw you in

I think about this all the time. Tamagotchi was the start. Every where I look, all I see are variants of Tamagotchi.

eg Quantified self help productivity hacking are just treating your own self as the Tamagotchi.