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 WILL NOT PAY FOR FACEBOOK …. EVER. I WILL MOVE TO GOOGLE PLUS
Another case of the rich getn richer n greed they will pay for. “Now I can buy an island” please do n I hope it sinks. I will entertain myself n will NEVER PAY THEM ONE PENNY. Facebook is way overrated now!!!
Fuck A, You dumb fucks! No one will pay.. Everyone will go back to MySpace. So go ahead, charge ppl.. aka:No island for youuu!! Ahhahahah
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I will happily pay .99 to whatever for the service they provide in order to use all FB provides for me. Plus, it is one-stop check-in with everyone! You can’t beat it!
You're an idiot. Facebook will go under
Your a spoiled brat & another reason this country is failing…let’s assist the rich in getting richer and poor get poorer. Not to mention it clearly states up to $50.. You’ll be lucky to ever see $.99 bill
Wow, guess I'll go back to my email account to communicate with long distance friends. I need to spend more time doing other things in life. Honestly, not having FB will probably save me more money than I realize.
That was a very funny article! Well written has one toggling between the possibility of it happening and the funny ha-ha moments with what the big guys saying…sure…I can totally see them telling the public they want more money
I enjoyed the read
Well I would welcome it. The obesity and lack of productivity is sick in this world that is because hundreds of millions of people are sitting on facebook playing mindless stupid games like farmville and fishville and mafia wars. Get off your butt's walk away from the computer and leave a larger legacy for your future generations of your family then I sat on my butt for 18 years playing Farmville my dear goodness people If it takes Facebook charging us to realize how much life is being wasted then I hope they charge tripple and everyone quits
Why would people pay for facebook when they can use other social networking sites for free? as for being willing to pay because of all you get out of it, fb is making so many crap updates & I'm constantly being informed of things you're not allowed to do or facebook will delete your page or profile. It's ridiculous.
Totally agree and now that Google + is hitting its stride and i feel its just as good as facebook, i think it would be a huge mistake from facebook to charge. But i guess just like myspace being passed for facebook the same is going to happen to facebook now and if it does and facebook goes under then its all on them!
I don't think it's a good idea at all. You are going to get a lot of young people on social networking sites because I would assume more know how to use computers etc than most adults. Having said that I can't understand it when people create fb accounts for their three year olds etc when the three year old probably won't even know what it is. The same as I don't get when people post naked photos of their young children on it.
PS. Who is aunt sally?
Here's an idea, if facebook starts charging, go to twitter, it's 10 times better… and FREE!!!
Twitter, google, myspace. All free. Facebook will take the same dive AOL did.
People are saying they will pay to keep in touch with friends and family yet there friends and family they want to keep in touch with wont all pay the fees which means you may end up with just talking to yourself? there is no point in paying for a social media site when someone else will come along with a new one which will be free. The rich get greedy which makes them lose customers, and they will end up with nothing.
big mistake..I WONT pay……….there are free sites like twitter,myspace..and maybe someone will create a new free site…BIG MISTAKE TO CHARGE
Another enitity of rich taking from the poor. This is all the entertainment I have, am retired trying to live on a low income, like many on fb, thank you for taking this from us now too. Hope y’all have a nice fulfilled life, but I can’t afford you, I’m on fb 8 or more hours a day & only have my mobile phone for fb. Thank you for taking this away from me too.
Ok so i think if it really does happen and they do decide to charge for Facebook…. Mark Zuckerberg will shut down the site… he said it himself… and if your gunna charge for facebook… you might as well start charging us for using google…. or any site for that matter…. most of us ONLY use the computer for facebook… it has everything we need to keep in touch with the world and have some fun while were at it…
I'm not paying over & 200,000 dollars. I'm a teenager. I say only adults will pay charges.
Guess we can go back to basic cell phone service now. Thank you fb for helping us save money & puttimg cell phone companies & their employees out of business. I believe you’re stirring up a hornets nest, but we sure would hate that fb CEO wouldn’t be able to get her Mediterranean Island. And to the CIO, a “few bucks” to us less fortunate ones means a lot!!!!
Charging for FB would certainly be the downfall of FB. Everybody will just go back to Myspace. As users flock back to Myspace, advertisers (Facebook's income) will leave too and FB will fall flat on it's face.
Better, user sud start charging FB as these are users who made the FB successful
We will demand a share from advertisement.
Ritesh
Ya right !!
I’ll never pay $50 a month for Facebook ~
Remember Napster people ? No one was
addicted to Napster like I was but when they
start charging, I left !! I don’t mind paying
for things, don’t get me wrong BUT I sure and
the heck will not pay to talk, chat, post photos,
etc. And for the lady that stated she can now
buy an Island, I hope it SINKS !!!
Facebook can now kiss my black Ass!!
thats i good thing they charging people . i wish they do that in the begining when they started facebook u can take me off i dont need it.
i will not pay for facebook it getting boarding.an it is trouble
facebook is trouble an it is boarding i will delete mt self off of facebook. my friends can call me or email me.
It would suck if they charged for facebook. Nice article!
if they charge for facebook people will delete them self off or they will pay facebook need to maake their money some how.thats ife enoughthing is free any more
stop speading rumors about facebook do samething about it