Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 13, 2012 @02:03PM from the pay-me-in-certified-adulons dept.

CNET reports that Facebook has experimented lately with a small group of users by offering people the chance to promote their own account status messages the old-fashioned way: by paying for them. The author of the linked article asks whether it's inevitable that "Facebook will have to start dinging users in earnest," post-IPO. Facebook still says "It's free and always will be," but that doesn't rule out paying for additional features — that's certainly a model that many game makers had adopted.

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Re:Freemium at its best by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-13 15:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"Now Facebook is testing the option so I can pay so that my posts they hid will actually show to my friends."
Nice posts you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to them.