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]
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I was expecting that to be happened. Here in turkey we have a site called Rüya Tabirleri , they are also started as free and then charged users. And their traffic dramatically lessened. If FB make this mistake, its destiny will be same as Rüya tabirleri site in Turkey . Twitter and Linkedin will take its crown.
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Myspace went sadly to the wayside. There will be something that doesn't charge that will take facebooks place.
I would pay up to $5 a month but thats my limit
[...] Other more interesting changes include the change in the data use policy. This may not have a severe impact on the direct privacy of the users but still it needs to be watched out. Nonetheless, the most interesting rumor still remains to be whether Facebook would start charging for it’s services? The talks on this have been around since forever but they have never been this strong. January 15 might be the Judgment Day. (Source: Weeklyworldnews.com) [...]
This is so stupid how fb r charging users to use there site its like why can it b free like always or shut down
yeah…hey mark zukerberg or something just shut your fucking site!
I would just go back to good old myspace…jusy saying:) you cant give a E ay free tacos then make people pay for it after they ate it.
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here’s the bottom line if Facebook begins to start charging I am deleting my facebook page and will never use Facebook again
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Zudkerburg is one greedy son of a bithch but he came by it honestly.
Sorry boys and girls, I'm not gonna pay for someone to buy an island while I live in the projects. I've lived without Facebook for years, won't be difficult to go back to that standard.
TRUE. I don't live in the projects but I wouldn't pay a dime for facebook…Guess everyone will go back to my space. I have a tagged and twitter page, so guess I will be visiting more often. Sorry but no deal.
How could you do that Zuckerberg??
If you got Facebook stock, get out of it now cause its going to Crash Bottom tomorrow
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Well I guess I won't have a page anymore…Me and a lot of other people. Why pay for Facebook when twitter, tagged and other social network sites are free. I feel like they are about to loose a lot of members.
I WON'T PAY BOTTOM LINE!!! You are already $$$RICH$$$ as fucc do you really need to start charging us to use facebook
to be fair they would charge so they can make more money and make shareholders happy however I can't see them charging, they would lose a huge amount of their users and destroy their reputation.
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Think about where you are getting this information. How many times did they say Facebook was shutting down? WWN just says stupid things like this to get people wound up.
dont blame you not paying for anything that was suppose to be free always and now they want to get rich off the users on facebook well not from me
i would not continue to use facebook unless they make it better.linking us with more resources that meets us where we are really at.
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only morons will pay good money for this site, and they quoted that facebook will always be free, if they charge it will be false advertising
IF he starts asking for money I'm gone.!! As someone else has said we lived without it before it hit, and we can do it again.
He is already rich… how rich does he want to be while his users are poor.. NAHHHH not a penny of of me.
Carlos Mencia's Mother: *Carlos, let's pray for the Pope.* Carlos Mencia: *Yeah, let's raise money for Bill Gates too.* Mark, you can take your fees, and your snitching and shove them straight up your ass!!! Hey, I'll admit it, I like Farmville, but I can't play that at zynga.com, so Zuckerburg can kiss my big white ass as I'm walkin' out the door!
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Facebook will be bankrupt with in weeks because people won't pay for stuff like that. People will find other ways to communicate for free, and besides that Mark is already filthy rich.
They make billions with ads. Billions not enough. Need Trillions. Greedy bastards. Google+. Now's your time!