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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFacebook potentially getting more annoying - pay to post a bold status...
Just when you thought people on Facebook couldnt possibly become more annoying: the company is reportedly testing out a feature that will allow users to pay a fee to insure that every one of their friends sees the things they post. So now when Ashley McBlonde you went to high school wants to announce that shes getting remarried and/or how many centimeters her cervix is dilated during labor, EVERYONE will know.
Facebook was trialling the feature at a range of different price points, including offering it free, she said. This means that during the trial members may be asked to pay different amounts, or nothing, to use it.
The trial appears to mark Facebooks first attempt to make money from postings by regular users and comes as it is gearing up for a public listing which is expected to value the company at about US$90 billion.
It should be noted that Tumblr recently rolled out a similar feature users can make posts stand out on their followers dashboards for a buck but Tumblr users are no where near as obnoxious as Facebook users. God help us all.
http://www.uproxx.com/technology/2012/05/facebook-may-soon-let-users-pay-to-get-their-friends-attention/
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Facebook potentially getting more annoying - pay to post a bold status... (Original Post)
Cave_Johnson
May 2012
OP
Not liking any commercial/etc pages probably makes my feed a little safer there at least
Posteritatis
May 2012
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Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)1. Not liking any commercial/etc pages probably makes my feed a little safer there at least
I can't see any of my friends using something like this for day-to-day posting, but I can see anyone using FB as an advertising medium trying to use it for every post they make.
(Also, hilarity will ensue should they all do that, thus flattening out the visibility anyway and also creating obvious spam posts for readers to mentally filter.)
msongs
(67,395 posts)2. the "free markets' will create an alternative and facebook will collapse lol nt
DLine
(397 posts)3. I would delete anyone who used it. That is ridiculous. nt
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)4. Good idea if they want to end up like MySpace
Totally irrellevent.
Retrograde
(10,134 posts)5. The investors have to make money somehow (n/t)