Facebook to Test Charging Fee for Some Services — Would You Be Prepared to Pay?
The social media company is reminding everybody that this is just a test, and a limited one at that, but it is to begin charging a select few to send messages to non-friends.
Several media outlets, including the Independent, are reporting the latest shake up from Facebook — charging a fee for sending some messages. However, this is a test, this is only a test — for now anyway. And only a select few, reportedly, are part of the test case. I hope I'm not one! According to the Independent, a $1 fee is being charged to the few selected as participants in the test for sending message to people with whom they are not friends. The Facebook messaging system reportedly usually deflects unwanted or unsolicited correspondence into a "folder" that can be ignored if the potential recipient so chooses. I guess the $1 will buy a way out of the "ignore" folder and into the recipient's inbox, where they probably can then …
Kenneth Stepp
7:58 am on Sunday, December 23, 2012
As long as my account is free I'll have it. Because they went public and are searching for revenue a real chance exists for a competitor to take its place. That's how these things happen. And they have the perfect model to emulate. The old "privately owned" Facebook. more ›