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Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Freemium at its best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Umm, no. I don't see things that my wife posts. She'll be sitting at the desk next to mine and tell me she posted some pictures or whatever and there will be nothing in my feed. I can wait a while and refresh the feed and still nothing. If I go to her profile, there they are. I have no idea why this happens. and it happens seemingly at random with only some of her posts. It's hard to check if it happens with everyone, since I only have a few Facebook friends and it's not like I'm regularly checking their profiles to see if they've posted other things I don't see. I'm subscribed to "All Updates".

  2. sage and report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You see the flag there on the lower right of the message?

    Click it.

    "spam"

    Bam, done.