Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks

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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[Clogoddess]

Please dear moderators of The Flow -- CAN WE CUT THE FACEBOOK PUBLICITY STORIES please please please. -clogoddess

Re:Freemium at its best

[__aaltlg1547]

Hahaha! There will never be a social network that "cares about its users" more than it cares about money. Unless it's founded by the FOSS movement. How many people are using Diaspora again?

But the FOSS movement cares more about ideology than users...