A cash-strapped woman who spends all day on Facebook is hoping all the Top Fan badges she has accumulated become legal tender soon.
Since Facebook introduced the feature a few months ago, Chiara Portelli, 35, has collected several Top Fan badges from pages she regularly interacts with.
“I have more top fan badges than I do money in my bank account,” Portelli said.
“So while having a label next to my name is cool and everything, I really need shops, restaurants and my landlord to start recognising badges as currency. Screw Bitcoin, this is the future.”
Portelli added that she thought it only fair that prolific fans like her should be rewarded monetarily by page owners for all the comments and reactions they leave.
Meanwhile, the proprietor of Scherzo Italian restaurant in Valletta, one of the pages that has Portelli as a top fan, said he would not be accepting her badge as payment.
“All Chiara does is leave stupid gifs and ‘angry’ faces, so she can fuck right off,” owner Daniele De Luca told Bis-Serjetà.
