One cannot be a social media website without the very effective "following" feature. This is one, tried-and-true way to gamify and it fits perfectly into the platform. A broad overview of how I envision it is found below:
A user would go into another user's profile and click a "follow" button
There would be a cost to follow ($.05 paid to the user being followed)
Within a user's account page, there would be a list of people they follow.
There would be a category or section a user could select to view a feed of people they follow. Like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc...
One cannot be a social media website without the very effective "following" feature. This is one, tried-and-true way to gamify and it fits perfectly into the platform. A broad overview of how I envision it is found below: