VitaminWater invests $100,000 for phone free generation

An original contest offers a large amount in dollars to the person who dares to live without their smartphone for a year. Would you accept the challenge?

The company VitaminWater offers $ 100,000 to the person who can get rid of their smartphone and be without it for a year. 365 days. 525,600 minutes. 31557600 seconds.

If you think you can do it, the company asks you to participate in your contest and tell them what you would do for a year while you do not have your mobile phone through Twitter or Instagram with the "hashtag" #nophoneforayear #contest

A participant will be selected and will have to give up their mobile phone per year.

But if you can not support a whole year without a cell phone, the contestant can still receive $ 10,000 to spend without his cell phone for six months. If you accept the challenge, you must participate before January 9, 2019.

The Vitamin Water brand is offering a prize of $ 100,000 for those who manage to spend a year without using their cell phone.

The contest was announced by the company in their social networks and they assure that they will grant that sum of money to the person who lives without their Smartphone for a year, or they will give 10 thousand dollars to whoever achieves the half-way challenge, that is, only for six months, reports the New York Post.

To corroborate this, Vitamin Water says that it will use a lie detector after the established period, to verify that the person has not used or touched any smartphone during the 365 days.

Those who wish to participate can make their posts on Instagram or Twitter, using the hashtags "#nophoneforayear" and "#contest" before January 8th. From there the participants will be selected.

Vitaminwater, the brand of energy drink of the company Energy Brands, owned by Coca-Cola, offers a prize of $ 100,000 to a person who agrees not to use a telephone.

Vitaminwater, the brand of energy drink of the company Energy Brands, owned by Coca-Cola, offers a prize of $ 100,000 to a person who agrees not to use a smartphone for a year.

People interested in meeting the challenge should send a message on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtags #nophoneforayear and #contest, and describe in them what that person would do if a smartphone cannot be used for a year.

The deadline to do so expires on January 8, 2019. The company will select a participant around January 22, according to the rules of the contest.

The selected person will receive a cell phone from 1996, prior to the development of smartphone technologies. The person chosen will not be able to use any smartphone or tablet, even those belonging to other people. However, the rules will allow anyone who is selected to use laptops, desktops, and devices such as personal assistants Google Home and Amazon Echo.

If you complete the 365 days of using only a basic phone, the person will earn $ 100,000. If for some reason you abort after six months, you will be awarded only 10 thousand dollars. Vitaminwater will verify the contestant's honesty. Before receiving the money the participant must submit to a test of detection of lies, according to the rules.

Data collected by the Pew Research Center indicate that 92 percent of the generation of millennials, those born in the eighties and nineties, has a smartphone. Generations a little older, such as the so-called Gen-Xers and baby boomers, have an X at this point, 85 percent and 67 percent, respectively. Those between 18 and 34 spend more than two and a half hours a day simply consuming entertainment content on their smartphones, according to Nielsen's latest 2018 Total Audience Report. A poll conducted earlier this year found that 43 percent of millennials say they check their phone at least every 20 minutes.