Jalokim
Manager
Rumours spread fast, and after the recent email leakage, is there a possibility we will have to pay for using facebook? | There is always some truth in all rumours ... how is facebook any different from the other big fish of the internet sea? Like deviantart,Kongregate, last.fm , wordpress and many others. All those services are paid for ... in bigger or smaller parts. Deviantart offers VIP status for paying ... wordpress gives you access to CSS and other really important areas of your wordpress blog, which I still think is extremely expensive and extemely useless to pay for CSS access. last.fm an old favorite of mine went mental with its paid services. It created an iron curtain around the US, UK and germany ... cos apparently those 3 countries bring substantial revenue from ads, and other countries of the world need to pay for access to once free music radio streaming. Is Facebook next? The daily telegraph says NO ... facebook CEO's have said that they arn't planning any payments for a 350 million user website service... that has to earn a load of revenue. But the even though they are calming us saying NO now... what of the future? Last.fm also said it was going to be a free radio? and now what? Personally I think facebook would loose all its grace with paid service. Looking at stats, its generally youngsters and teens that dominate on facebook ... and they don't have and won't be able to pay $14 for facebook. your views? |