Facebook to Start Charging

Facebook to Start Charging - We've heard our entire lives that there's no such point as a free lunch, so it's just all-natural for people to think Facebook might begin charging for its service. This rumor appears specifically plausible when you think about arguments like the one Slate magazine author Farhad Manjoo presented in a column from 2008. Manjoo pointed out that if even 5 percent of Facebook customers consented to pay $5 a month for the service (with the remaining individuals downgraded to limited accounts), Facebook might create thousands of numerous dollars a year in subscription fees alone.


Facebook to Start Charging


Thankfully for Facebook customers, the firm presently has no plans to start billing for the solution. According to a Company Week meeting with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook pays and growing rapidly based just on the toughness of its advertising profits. So while it's difficult to look in to the future and also claim with certainty what Facebook's business model will certainly resemble, for the time being Facebook addicts could keep their cash in their budgets when they go to. The next Facebook myth additionally has huge economic ramifications, yet not for Facebook users.

Don't worry, the social networks site is not going to start billing you. Facebook also created an assistance web page just to claim this: "Facebook is a free site and also will certainly never ever require that you pay to proceed making use of the site."

The page after that goes on to describe that, yes, you might pay cash for some games and various other applications you play on the website. As well as if you review your cellphone's information limit while utilizing Facebook, you'll have to spend for that, also.