Myfreeimplants
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| URL | http://myfreeimplants.com/ |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Social network service |
| Owner | Privately owned |
| Created by | Jason Grunstra |
MyFreeImplants is a website based on the social networking model along with an element of cyberbegging[1]. Founded in 2005 by Jason Grunstra[2], MyFreeImplants is an alternative to cosmetic surgery financing. MyFreeImplants users are segmented into two distinct groups; models & benefactors. Models participate on the website with the main goal of raising money to fund a breast augmentation procedure. Benefactors participate to meet the women on the site and to help them fund their plastic surgery through various means of online donations.
Each of the two users groups create a user profile which consists of a brief bio, a favorite quote, unlimited photos, and some basic stats such as age, height, weight and location. In addition to the standard user profile information, the models on the website can choose from various cosmetic surgery goals, the most popular of which are saline breast implants (default value $4000), and silicone breast implants (default value $5000).
The two user groups interact on the MyFreeImplants website via blogs, exchanging photos, and an internal messaging system. Benefactors can try out the site for free, but in order to interact with the models they need to purchase message credits for $1.25/credit. Once a benefactor has message credits in his account he can send messages, blog comments, and photo comments to individual models. Each time a benefactor messages a model 1 message credit is deducted from their account and $1.00 is placed into the models account that goes towards her plastic surgery goal. In addition, benefactors have the option to send a financial donation of any denomination to a model, which also goes towards her target amount. Once a model reaches her target amount, MyFreeImplants makes a payment in that amount to the cosmetic surgeon of the models choice.
In June of 2006, MyFreeImplants gave away a free breast augmentation to a winner of a random drawing at the 10th Anniversary of the Erotica-LA[3] convention in Los Angeles, California.
As of March 24, 2007, 18 women have reached their goals on the website and have received free breast implants via the MyFreeImplants website.
MyFreeImplants has been profiled on several radio shows including:
- The Adam Carolla Show (audio clip)
- Xtra Sports Radio station 570AM
- Playboy Radio Night Calls hosted by Ginger Lynn & Christy Canyon
- Drew & Mike show on WRIF in Detroit (audio clip)
- Kevin and Bean on KROQ (audio clip)
- Daily Noise (audio clip)
- Holder Tonight on CJAD (audio clip)
- X103.9 Mornings with Doug and Jenn on KCXX (audio clip)
- The Regular Guys show on WKLS in Atlanta (audio clip)
- Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show on WGRD and WQBK
- Almost Live from The Trailer hosted by Crazy Jen (formerly of the Ron and Fez show) (audio clip)
As well as featured on a BBC special entitle My Small Breasts and I on their Body Image Season. [4] Jay Leno also poked fun at the MyFreeImplants site on The Tonight Show
The soon to be published book "Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery" by New York Times author Alex Kuczynski describes the authors success on the website in which she earns $96 in three weeks on the website. [5]
[edit] References
- ^ The Houston Press article, Money For Nothing. 20 April 2006.
- ^ Vyuz San Diego article, The next great freebie on the internet: breast implants. 21 August 2006.
- ^ AVN article, Jenna Jameson and Dave Navarro to Host Erotica LA. 14 April 2006.
- ^ BBC program, My Small Breasts and I. 29 August 2006.
- ^ The knife life. 1 November 2006.
