Facebook Testing $100 Fee To Mail Mark Zuckerberg

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 13, 2013 @07:59AM from the cost-of-sending-messages dept.

iComp writes with a story about how it will cost you $100 to message Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. "Got something you'd like to say to Mark Zuckerberg? The Facebook CEO still maintains a profile on the social networking site he founded, but beginning on Friday, sending him a personal message could cost you. Mashable was the first to notice that some users who weren't otherwise on the Behoodied One's Friends list were being asked to pony up before they could send a message to his Inbox, to the tune of $100 a pop. As El Reg reported in December, Facebook has been conducting a limited test of a feature that requires users to pay a fee to send messages to people with whom they have no direct connection. The idea is that the type of users who like to send spam, hate speech, and otherwise frivolous messages typically aren't willing to pay for the privilege. Impose a fee – however small – and they probably won't bother."

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Re:funny by Trepidity · 2013-01-13 08:21 · Score: 4, Informative

My guess is that this is some kind of clumsy way of trying to get in on the LinkedIn gravy train. LinkedIn has a setup where you have to pay for a premium account to be able to message people you aren't directly connected to, and they actually pull in quite a bit of cash through that, because recruiters and various other kinds of businesspeople will pony up to send those messages.

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Re:Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-13 08:41 · Score: 5, Informative

I'll just use e-mail instead.
mark.zuckerberg@fb.com
mzuckerberg@fb.com
or just dial the weasel directly...
(650) 543-4800 x9825
Re:Great business policy by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-13 11:10 · Score: 5, Informative

"most used" and "best" are not necessarily the same thing.