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I had absolutely no issue getting my family members to pay for an account at diasp.eu when google+ shut down. They were rather happy to do so since one of its

• dageshi 8y ago
  Forgive me but doesn't that mean they were actually using google+ in the first place? Which seems.... unlikely? Or at least incredible outliers. You won't get the majority of people on Facebook to pay for the service after you've been giving it to them for "free" for 10 years, you'd maybe convert 10% if that, at which point what use is facebook with most of the users gone?
  • tyfon 8y ago
    We were all using google+ to share images. Some of them are on facebook (my mother and sister in particular), but the rest of my extended family is not there. But we were all on G+, I told them if they wanted to see baby pictures you have to sign up. I couldn't care less about anyone outside my family, if they want to contact me they can email or call me by phone.
  • sacado2 8y ago
    It's difficult to ask for users to pay for a service that was always free, indeed, furthermore facebook is not growing its user base anymore. But a competitor can emerge by providing an alternative service, for a fee, marketing it as "the service that doesn't spy on you". Now, sure, that will be a niche service, and social networks can't be niche services. The protonmail of facebook or twitter will probably never emerge.
• sacado2 8y ago
  For semi-private file sharing (ie family-wide, not worldwide), paying services are great. If you want as big of a circle of "friends" as possible, you are in a "winner-takes-all" situation, and being free helps to be the winner.