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Interesting idea but I suspect that the people who would be most willing to pay to contact would also be the least desirable to be contacted by.
by pbateman 14y ago
Interesting idea but I suspect that the people who would be most willing to pay to contact would also be the least desirable to be contacted by.
- swapnilt 14y agoNot necessarily. This is very useful for (atleast) business professionals. Linkedin doesn't provide emails. The only way I can send an 'Inmail' to a person is to upgrade my account. Paying $1 to send a message is a much better option.
- pbateman 14y agoSure. But do you really want to be contacted by "business professionals" on a site that was supposedly about staying in touch with friends?
- visarga 14y agoThat's not the problem. The problem is that they want us to pay to deliver messages to people who already "Liked" our page and thus have a pre-established interest/subscription.
- pbateman 14y agoActually they're both symptoms of the same problem which is the more facebook tries to monetize the sleazier it feels. LinkedIn probably has the advantage here because it was started explicitly as a resume/business/hustling platform, whereas facebook started as a way for students to keep in touch with friends.
- onedev 14y agoPlease explain how it is sleazy? They have a service which they are providing to you for free. They need to monetize this service and they're trying out different things. In this case, it's not so much about monetization as it is about cutting spam, and erecting a monetary barrier which is huge in cutting down spam.
- shoopy 14y agoPeople don't have defenses like spam filters for FB like they do on email, because that channel was relatively clean of unwanted messages. It's sleazy because they have weaned people off open and free protocols into their walled garden and now they are going in for the kill. It's like how Nestle gave baby formula to African mothers so that they would stop lactating, then they cut off the supply and charged the mothers ridiculous prices so they could continue nourishing their babies.
- yuhong 14y agoThey made it cost money and limit the rates in which such paid messages can be posted.
- prostoalex 14y agoMm, as opposed to what? A page currently cannot message members who liked it.
- nmridul 14y agoThere should be a Do-Not-Contact registry. Else, another reason to close your Facebook account as you will be flooded with Spammy mails.