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Who pays for the real friends platform?
by the_common_man 8y ago
Who pays for the real friends platform?
- jacobush 8y agoWho pays for the real friends?
- pgeorgi 8y agoThe payment isn't for the friends, but for the environment in which you meet them: You could pay membership fees for a club to be able to use their rooms to hang out with your peers. (paid community server) You can meet at your home, where you have to clean up and bring snacks yourself. (personal hosting) Or you can meet in a cafe, where access is free, with the expectation that there will be a different but related financial transaction (food and beverages). ("free" servers paid by ads) I can't think of a good analogy of meeting your friends in a fully public space.
- 2sk21 8y agoRelated question: can they even pay? The vast majority of the new users of Facebook are from developing countries with low income. There is no way to make them voluntarily pay for access to a social network.
- Fedoranimus 8y ago> - paid for by users This suggests that the users would.
- lallysingh 8y agoSplit them up into different services by different vendors. A better* openid would make this easy. * Better to include more privacy.
- dreamfactored 8y agoInitially VC, then advertisers. It's more of the same shit but ridiculous given FB's size to think the market can only have one player. The way to accelerate network growth is base on an open source standard and encourage competitors using it.