Facebook has officially announced the launch in test mode of a service that allows administrators to charge subscribers. Fees will apply for unique content and may range from $4.99 to $29.99.
Over the past few years, there have been periodic rumors online that the social network will sooner or later become paid. In a sense, they were justified, since groups can become paid.
Facebook is testing a new feature
For example, the maximum amount from the presented range will be charged by a group dedicated to American universities (Grown and Flown Parents: College Admissions and Affordability), whose subscribers will have the opportunity to discuss with professional advisers the conditions of admission and aspects of the curricula of US universities. Wherein free groups will continue to work as usual, but closed subgroups with a paid subscription may appear in them.
On this moment Facebook is testing new opportunity on “a small number of groups.” The company's product director, Alex Deve, said in an official statement blog social networks: “We hear from group admins that they are looking for ways to make money, and that this will increase their interaction with members and continue to support their communities.”
In addition to the group about American universities, communities dedicated to cooking, interior design and other topics will participate in the pilot program.
Facebook meets administrators halfway
At the same time, Deve emphasized that administrators could previously create closed groups and charge subscribers using external tools. The point of introducing closed groups is to “make it easier for admins using built-in tools, saving them time to work exclusively on content for subscribers.”
For example, the new closed group Organize My Home will charge $14.99 a month for access to “mini-projects, group assignments, training and real-time feedback” related to home improvement. Also paid subscription implemented by Meal Planning Central Premium, which offers weekly meal plans and recommended shopping lists from grocery stores.
“By analyzing the pilot launch and the reaction of closed group subscribers, we can continue to improve this area to help admins offer more to their readers and continue to invest in working with communities,” Deve said.
The Facebook community may be splitting apart.
Facebook users will be able to manage their subscriptions to closed groups through the app for iOS and Android. It is especially noted that during the trial period, Facebook will not take part of the groups’ profits, but may subsequently begin to do so.
Leaders of online platforms and social networks proclaim that their main value is bringing people closer together and uniting them. Mark Zuckerberg himself has repeatedly stated this. However, in reality, it turns out that they segment people by income level - they divide them into those who are able and those who are unable to pay, they create closed paid communities, and they make it difficult for people with average incomes to belong to a large number of different groups.
That is, the poor will be isolated in the free segment, people with average incomes will be limited to a small set of paid groups, and only rich people will be able to afford a wide range of content.
This in itself is not a crime, but a completely understandable logic: administrators create interesting content and want to get money for it. Group administrators will primarily benefit from the innovation. But the entire social network is unlikely to become closed and paid. The trend towards segmenting the social network audience by interests and income may intensify.
In general, business class passengers are invited to board first.
In the era of rapidly developing technologies, the various kinds Internet fraud. There are so many methods of deceiving gullible users of social networks that a day is not enough to list them. You have all come across letters from “African millionaires”, or Nigerian letters.
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"Nigerian letters" is a common type of fraud, which has received the greatest development with the advent of mass mailings By e-mail(spam).
As a rule, scammers ask the recipient of the letter for help in multimillion-dollar monetary transactions, promising substantial interest on the amounts. If the recipient agrees to participate, he is gradually defrauded of increasingly large sums of money, allegedly for processing transactions, paying fees, bribes to officials, etc.
Another variant of such mailings is a fake message from “Mark Zuckerberg” that Facebook will allegedly become paid. A message is spread across the Messenger application from one friend over the network to another. Moreover, the letter was written rather illiterately. In some places it’s not even clear what the author of this masterpiece wants. We present part of the text without changes, the style and spelling are preserved:
"Hi, I'm Mark, Director of Facebook. Hello everyone, it seems that all the warnings are real. Using Facebook will cost money. If you send this line to 18 other than your list, your badge will be blue and it will be free for you. If you don't believe me, tomorrow at 6 pm Facebook will be closed and you will have to pay to open it. This is all according to the law. This message informs all our users that our servers have been very overloaded lately. We ask you to help solve this problem. We require our active users to forward this message to each of the people in your contact list to verify our active users facebook,” reads Mark’s letter.
No official information about payment for use Facebook There is no real Mark Zuckerberg on the page.
In the help center of the social network, the question: “Do you need to pay to use Facebook? They say that Facebook will become paid. Is this true?” The answer received was: "No. Facebook is a free site and we will never charge you for its use."
Meanwhile, users in Russia and Ukraine periodically receive similar letters, and this began a long time ago.
In January, the zik.ua portal devoted material to a fake message “from Mark Zuckerberg.” “Despite the fact that messages of this type appear from time to time on social networks, not everyone has yet learned to distinguish between them,” the portal notes.
At a press conference on Sunday, Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, announced that the social network will become paid, reports the American publication National Report. From November 1 of this year, users will have to pay $2.99 monthly to use the service.
"I thought about this decision for a long time, and in the end we decided to introduce subscription fee. If we don't do something to balance the increased costs, Facebook could cease to exist in the near future," the publication quotes Zuckerberg as saying.
"This is great news for all Facebook shareholders," analyst Dale Sackrider said. “In August of this year, 1 billion 317 million users were registered on Facebook, if at least three quarters of them pay for using Facebook, then every month the company will receive $3 million in service alone. This is not just earning a small amount, it can change rules of the game starting from the first month of introducing this service.”
A number of major media outlets believe that the information from National Report should not be trusted; even the disclaimer states that National Report is a news and political satirical online publication that may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fake news. All articles contained in National Report are fiction and are believed to be fake. Any similarity to the truth is purely coincidental" - thus the publication disclaims responsibility for the information provided.
The fact that the news is a “canard” can also be supported by the presence of instructions on how not to pay for using the social network. Allegedly, for those who cannot afford to pay a subscription fee, in their status you need to write the text “I am poor Facebook please wave my monthly fee” (“Facebook, I’m poor, please don’t charge me a monthly fee”) and add hashtag #FacebookMonthlyFee. According to the publication, this message will reach the Facebook department that deals with accounts and they will relieve the user of the obligation to pay for using the site.
Despite the reputation of the publication, the news caused a great resonance in the Internet community.
Facebook - free service, we will never charge you for using the site. However, you have the option to make purchases related to games, applications and other items. In addition, if you use Facebook with mobile phone, please note that for Internet use and/or sending text messages Your mobile operator's rates may apply."
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The head of one of the world's most popular Internet resources - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg made a sensational statement. As the American press reports, he announced that the social network will become paid in November 2014.
At a specially called press conference, the founder of Facebook announced that users will soon have to pay for social network. This will have to be done from November 1 of this year, the price will be $2.99 for monthly use of the service, reports the American edition of National Report. “I thought about this decision for a long time and, in the end, after consulting with partners and friends of Facebook, I decided to introduce a subscription fee. If we do not do something to balance the increased costs, Facebook may cease to exist in the near future,” the publication quotes Zuckerberg.
"This is great news for all Facebook shareholders. In August of this year, there were 1 billion 317 million registered users on Facebook. If at least three quarters of them pay to use Facebook, then Every month the company will receive three million dollars from maintenance alone.. This is not just earning a small amount, it can change the rules of the game starting from the first month of introducing this service,” Vesti.Ru quotes the famous IT analyst Dale Sackrider.
Wherein a number of major American media outlets believe that the information from National Report should not be trusted. The fact that the news is a hoax may also be supported by the presence of instructions on how not to pay for using the social network. Allegedly, for those who cannot afford to pay a subscription fee, in your status you need to write the text I am poor Facebook please wave my monthly fee (“Facebook, I’m poor, please don’t charge me a monthly fee”) and add the hashtag #FacebookMonthlyFee . According to the publication, this message will reach the Facebook department that deals with accounts, and it will relieve the user of the obligation to pay for using the site.
The news caused a great resonance in the Internet community. On the page of the social network itself a message was published that clearly characterizes the current state of affairs: “Do you need to pay to use Facebook? They say that Facebook will become paid. Is it true? Facebook is a free service, we will never demand payment for using the site. However, you have opportunity to spend money here: make purchases related to games, applications and other items."
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