BREAKING - Facebook, a public company, has reportedly announced a bold new plan – charging users?
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly announced that there will be a host of new changes to Facebook.
WWN’s J.B. Smitts broke the story that Facebook was shutting down on May 15, 2013. Maybe this helped Zuckerberg come up with his new plan?
Pressure from angry users has been too much and Facebook is looking at an alternative, something that will persuade Mark Zuckerberg to keep the site alive: his social media platform is going to start charging users!
According to sources outside the company, Facebook is planning a subscription-based service with monthly fees starting at $0.99 for a basic “friendship” which allows for the posting of text and just one profile picture. This fee will increase, depending on the number of friends you have, the messages posted and sent, and the pictures/videos/ games put on a user’s page. The monthly fee will be capped at $50.00 per month at the high-end.
Bottom line: the more you use Facebook, the more you will pay.
Reports from sources not affiliated with company are saying that all existing content has been “grandfathered” and will not be disrupted – though Facebook has decided to share this data with government agencies, including the FBI , the CIA and Michael Moore.
CIO, FLoyd Collins said – “people will get used to paying. It’s not so bad. What’s a few bucks a month?”
Investment bankers, including Goldman Sachs, who brought the company public, learned that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to shutter the site, and are thrilled at the prospect of Facebook converting to a pay service.
“The addition of this substantial revenue windfall makes Facebook all that more attractive as an investment,” said Tom Wotozowski, Senior Vice President of Goldman Sachs. “This will make it the largest corporation on the planet, ever.”
Industry watchers estimate that the new fee-based program will generate well in excess of $50 billion in new revenue for the company – based on the most conservative assumptions of usage and the proposed tiered fee structure.
These estimates, of course, account for the fact that millions of users may quit Facebook in response to the imposition of fees. “I’m not going to pay for Facebook! It’s like paying for air. It’s not right,” said longtime Facebook junkie, Jessica Samsille. “Screw them, I’m going back to MySpace,” said Bo Chan.
No matter. Facebook executives are excited at the prospect of charging users. “We’re going to make money hand over fist,” said Facebook CEO Cindy Shooman. “I think converting to a pay service is something that will make Mark want to keep the site going. And I’ll finally get to buy an island in the Mediterranean.”
May 15, 2013 is Facebook Day. The site will either shut down, or start charging users for its service – according to sources close to people from Silicon Valley.
[Reporting by Floyd Collins on WWN's Financial News desk]
I say THEY ARE SELFISH PEOPLE if they push through with that plan
They're earning billions of revenues and now the want to charge users? SCREW THAT people shouldn't have abandodned friendster/myspace for facebook greedy people
Um … this is the Weekly World News. Don't you get it?
Some poor slobs don't get it
They also believe the Onion…
Shhhhh! Don't spoil the fun! Ignorant fools are so entertaining!
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Goodbye facebook!. So tired of facebook. So tired of hearing ads from companies asking me to "like" them on facebook.
Do your thing ill and so will others go somewhere else u can bet on that shit.
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im so happy that facebook's future is at an end, im so sick of this facebook bullshit
D: D: D: Poor Facebook
its unfortunate you want to take this horrible step,Very many fb users will opt for othr sites,this is just unbearable…..
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goldman sachs already bet on FB to loose
Better end this facebook mania if that plan pushes through…not a good idea.
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The comments on this prove just how stupid some people are…
Maybe it's some kind of joke from facebookers, or not?
Will anybody pay for it so much, despite at all time while it was free?
i'm sure that it's a rumor…or…mr. Mark Zuckerberg made a great mistake.
dont be fkn stupid anyone who reads WWN is a fucking moron. THEY ARE A FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATION AND FACEBOOK IS NOT CHARGING. Morons.
funny. . .i think last year, there was a news that facebook would be shutdown by march 15, 2011. . .now, 2012 is so near, this news is back? hahahah. . .so funny. . .what do people get if they post something like this?
If you logout of it says it's free and always will be…there was a scam going around on fb for a while and fb said those rumors werent true. I think this news site is more like bs news.
no shit, Einstein. Weekly World News is satire.
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