Facebook Testing $1 Service for Messaging Strangers

[exfileme]

Facebook is testing a service that allows a sender's message to be yanked out of a receiver's "other" folder and into their inbox.

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[Guest]

Perhaps they should pay $0.10 of that the user that they're sending it to ... I'd willingly receive spam emails (that would take seconds to delete) if I was getting paid for them!

 

[abbadon_34]

this sound like a dangerous precent, charging per email. How many times have we heard idea, real and ficticious, about a per email tax/charge/etc. for anything from supporting the Post Office to raising revenue. While sharing "spam revenue" is a nice idea, spammers spam because it costs the same to send 1 email as 1 million: nothing. This seems more useful for stalkers and directed hacks.

I still can't believe Facebook hasn't gone down the toilet yet, as least far the stock price. Bring it from the billions to millions and I might be convinced.

 

[hydac7]

[citation][nom]Gryphon64[/nom]Perhaps they should pay $0.10 of that the user that they're sending it to ... I'd willingly receive spam emails (that would take seconds to delete) if I was getting paid for them![/citation]

Same here

 

[mark0718]

Gryphon64 12/22/2012 12:20 PM
"Perhaps they should pay $0.10 of that the user that they're sending it to ... I'd willingly receive spam emails (that would take seconds to delete) if I was getting paid for them!"

Good idea, but you have the ratio backwards. The addressee should get 90%,
Facebook 10%. It should also be possible for the addressee to read the message
and say the sender doesn't have to pay the 90%.

 

[QEFX]

So Facebook wants to be less respected than apple?

They should have to pay Facebook users $1.10 .... $1 from the sender and $0.10 from F*ckerberg's personal bank account.

 

[AndrewMD]

I love the asinine comments for this post. So many people hating on Facebook, but so many of you use it too. You want to hate a guy that has it made! In retrospect you guys would hate anyone that is rich. They did not get there because they are kind and generous. If you are not rich it is your fault, no one else. Get a real life, a real job, and make your own damn money!

 

[nebun]

they need to be honest and admit that they are getting greedy

 

[thecolorblue]

[citation][nom]AndrewMD[/nom]I love the asinine comments for this post. So many people hating on Facebook, but so many of you use it too. You want to hate a guy that has it made! In retrospect you guys would hate anyone that is rich. They did not get there because they are kind and generous. If you are not rich it is your fault, no one else. Get a real life, a real job, and make your own damn money![/citation]
/golfclap

 

[thecolorblue]

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCczbSF-B8

Watch that and then tell us how great Facebook is

 

[Guest]

Expect increasing invasion of privacy from FB while market and shareholders increase their pressure to rapidly milk this huge base. While their lawyers and PR folks work overnight to wade through legal/privacy landmines worldwide- notice the increasing frequency of experiments like this post IPO. This is not surprising at all and I believe they will eventually get away with it as majority of the unwary users allow themselves to be subjected to this slowly accelerating exploitative schemes. Well this will continue to the point where marketers feel they reached a level of insignificant returns that can be mined from this populace.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]AndrewMD[/nom]I love the asinine comments for this post. So many people hating on Facebook, but so many of you use it too. You want to hate a guy that has it made! In retrospect you guys would hate anyone that is rich. They did not get there because they are kind and generous. If you are not rich it is your fault, no one else. Get a real life, a real job, and make your own damn money![/citation]

Tell that to businesses. Many of them that don't use FB or have very small presence usually have weak customer satisfaction, because customers prefer to vent their complaints on FB and Twitter. When the complaints go unanswered, bad things happen.

 

[friskiest]

So they call this a feature? Well, I personally can't blame FB for doing this,. they have to get money to pay for the expenses of the "free" personalized pages, image/video upload and others,. its a freakin business after all,. you get "free" services in exchange of your personal data,.

 

[sacre]

Facebook: We're not making enough billions, someone do something!
Someone: Lets ad Adds that last 15 seconds, and charge 1 dollar to send messages to "strangers"
Facebook: Genius, i'll be on my 4th yacht, tell me how it works out.

 

[A Bad Day]

The shareholders also want yachts as well, so don't forget about the stock price/dividends...

 

[hector2]

So who gets the $1 ? Facebook or the recipient ? Facebook, I'm betting. They don't care if you message strangers

 

[danielravennest]

At some point, if Facebook makes themselves too annoying, people will jump ship to other networks.

 

[Hellbound]

Perhaps the real goal here is to make you friend people... I have people(family members) not on my friends list because they are simply annoying as hell... But we message each other for events and stuff..

In the end they could claim that Facebook has the largest community of friends, EVAR!!.....

 

[therabiddeer]

Before when I said that facebook would never go away until they made huge mistakes? Well, they are beginning to make these mistakes. They should be monetizing their site through the games and media that people WANT to see, not from things that people DONT want to see.

 

[kyuuketsuki]

[citation][nom]AndrewMD[/nom]I love the asinine comments for this post. So many people hating on Facebook, but so many of you use it too. You want to hate a guy that has it made! In retrospect you guys would hate anyone that is rich. They did not get there because they are kind and generous. If you are not rich it is your fault, no one else. Get a real life, a real job, and make your own damn money![/citation]Oh look, one of those "Everything is fine as long as it's in the pursuit of money!" people. No one gives a crap that Zuckerberg is rich, and no, neither he nor his company are immune to criticism because they have money.