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]
Nope. Nonononononono.
It is totally corporate greed! Facebook has brought people together, even finding long lost loved ones too.
They will lose a lot of those of us who are on a fixed income such as Soc Sec. I'm able to pay my bills and buy grocery's with maybe a tad left over. It either stays "FREE" as the login says, It is FREE and always will be, or I won't be on it anymore. I can't afford extra money going out every month, just as simple as that. There should be enough sponser paid ads to not have to charge users.
if they start charging I'm going back to MySpace
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Facebook is stupid if they do that there are so many more sites like that. More than Half of the people will leave. And go to twitter or myspace.
GoTween.com is the upgrade!!!!! They blow Facebook out the water go,see for yourself
whatever weekly world news says is bullshit, like when they said that facebook will shut down on march 15th, 2012, it didn't happen. They just come up with shit out their ass so don't believe this bullshit!
I will not waste anything with it no no no
I will be really sad if facebook start charging i found alot of people that i havent seen in a long time..
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lets see they charge i belive it when i see it facebook need to do something abou it
please let me know when u charing for facebook i can say good bye to my facebook peoples thank u
my space suck and boreding
my spce sucks i will n go back their
facebook thinks they are gonna make money by doing this? its just like when netflix wanted to charge more for streaming, and that failed they lost over half of their profits. it'll happen then fb will crash, mark is a fucking idiot.
This goddamned rumor pops up every year at least 3 times. F*ck you for making certain it continues to, Weekly World News.
well r.i.p facebook
Oh YES!!
Its good to hear that someone made a site for tweens. Facebook and MySpace should be for adults. Will Facebook shut down? It wouldnt break my heart if it did, but I seriously doubt it. Will they charge for it? Why? They make plenty with their ads.
U gotta be joking
Facebook gonna charge
This is Retarted
Im switching to Twitter if this happens
if facebook startes charging them they can shut my account down. i have too many bill as it is to pay for FB.
if facebook is going to charge money im out and going to twitter'
The creaters of Facebook.Please don't charge Facebook Users.There are people that want to keep in contact with their friends and family.No matter how far away they are from eachother they want to stay close.There are people that have friends and family members that live in a different state or country,but don't have the money and transportation in order to see and talk to them.Do you want to stay close with your friends and family?
They Have Been Hosting A test In New Zeland About Charges, The Only Thing They Will be Charging Users For Is Long-status show Witch Basicly means at the moment only 10% Of Your Friends see what you post on news feeds well you can pay for facebook to show your news feeds for long so instead of 10% It will be 40% it Was Being Tested In New Zeland A Few Months Back Dylan From facebook Said " Facebook Will Only Charge The Users That Pick To Pay For There Feeds To be Shown Longer, Its Mostly Ranging To Company's But Is Available For Anyone" Facebook Wont Force People To Pay For This, Most People Have Misunderstood What There On About, facebook Wont Jepadies There Multi-Million Dollar Company By Charging People.
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Skype or myspace or any of the other countless free social networks
The amount of infrastructure, technology and people require to manage a site like Facebook is staggering. They should charge at least $50/year for their service. It would at least cover some of their overhead and turn a profit. It's ridicules that people expect this service be free. For those who think Facebook should be free, they should work for free to see how easy it is. I think absolutely that Facebook should charge something for their service. They certainly aren't making much on their advertising… cheap-ass Facebook users won't even click a few ads once a while… jesus.
how is it worth billions if it has lost money all this time?
Facebook is designed to moniter the public and gather intelligence about people for the cia and other departments/organisations. The people working on it get paid because these organisations like facebook as a tool so even if they had no advertisements facebook could still run.
If FB is going to start charging why has there been nothing
said about it on facebook?
Facebook is going to charge on using. I think it is not a good idea for FB. If it may happen, I might not suppose to be using FB often. It's a bad idea.