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Keen Facebook observers will recognize this as a variant on the $1 pay-to-message plan that the social network has been experimenting with for months. Welp, ti
by prawks 14y ago
Keen Facebook observers will recognize this as a variant on the $1 pay-to-message plan that the social network has been experimenting with for months.
Welp, time to get all of my family's email addresses and close my FB account. Really the only thing I use it for at this point, and not valuable enough to pay any amount of money per message.
I don't like siding with Mashable on many issues, but I really hope FB isn't this hungry for new revenue streams.
EDIT: Welp, now I need to friend my family members to message them for free.
- endianswap 14y agoThe plan is to charge users money to message folks outside of their friends list, not monetize two friends chatting.
- jonknee 14y agoAt the moment. Previously this $100 per message scheme would also have seemed nuts. FB is under immense pressure to live up to its valuation, I expect these sorts of unsettling money grabs to continue for quite some time.
- paulgb 14y agoIf I understand correctly, you only pay that much to go to the inbox if you aren't a friend with the person. Friends message friends for free. It's actually pretty clever, I think. It's too high for unsolicited spam, but it's a trivial amount for the very rare instance of wanting someone you're not a friend of to read it.
- prawks 14y agoAh, thanks for the clarification. This makes sense, and I think was actually mentioned in the Mashable article. My mistake.
- leephillips 14y ago"now I need to friend my family members to message them for free" If only there were some way to communicate using computers that did not require the services of a company like Facebook. Something using open protocols, where anyone could write servers and clients, that used the internet to communicate freely. I guess I'm just a dreamer.