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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Facebook testing charging users to deliver messages
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Thu Dec 20 18:14:29 2012
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:57:36 -0800
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Facebook testing charging users to deliver messages
http://j.mp/WsRF4X (Reuters)
"Today we're starting a small experiment to test the usefulness of
economic signals to determine relevance," Facebook said. "This test
will give a small number of people the option to pay to have a message
routed to the 'Inbox' rather than the 'Other' folder of a recipient
that they are not connected with." A Facebook spokesman said the
charge for the test is $1 per message, but added that the company is
still looking for the "optimum" price. Users can only receive one of
these paid, re-routed messages per week, he noted.
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In other words, "I don't know you, I don't want to know you, I don't
care about you, but so long as you pay Facebook, I gotta see your
message anyway."
Granted, this is a limited test with certain testing restraints, but
the whole concept that Facebook is moving in this direction is
(typically for Facebook) problematic.
Man, I'm glad I don't do Facebook.
--Lauren--
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