We live in an age of full disclosure. Using social media, people talk about their jobs, wives/husbands, children, coffee addictions, hangovers, travels, meals at restaurants, and content they’ve read/scanned. Heck, we’re even willing to broadcast the services and products we buy using services such as Blippy.

But the one thing we’re still not talking about is money. In particular, how much money we make. It’s one of those odd things; you can ask someone very personal questions, and often gets answers to most of them. But if you ask someone how much money they make, almost no one is willing to say anything.

Now, you figure that since social media has encouraged us to blab about everything and anything, it should no longer be taboo to talk about how much money we make. I mean, what’s a little financial information between friends, family and the entire social media community?

To help everyone get over the “ask but don’t tell” problem, I propose a new social media service called MoneyBook. It would be a social network in which people could openly brag about how much money they’re making or not making, the raises they’ve received, or contracts that they’ve won. It would be a place to tell the entire world that you’re oozing in cash or floundering financially.

Either way, it would be a user-friendly service to convince people that it’s perfectly alright to talk about personal finances. And, of course, it would feature lots of sharing options so your friends, family and perfect strangers could happily spread the world about how well or crappy you’re doing.

If I had the time – and the money – I would totally run with this killer social media idea. But as a gift to the social community, I’m offering it for free. Then again, you could pay me and I promise I won’t disclose how much….until MoneyBook officially launches.

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