Charging for Facebook

Charging for Facebook - We've heard our whole lives that there's no such point as a free lunch, so it's only all-natural for people to think Facebook could begin charging for its service. This report seems particularly possible when you take into consideration disagreements like the one Slate publication author Farhad Manjoo put forth in a column from 2008. Manjoo mentioned that if also 5 percent of Facebook individuals consented to pay $5 a month for the service (with the continuing to be individuals devalued to restricted accounts), Facebook might create hundreds of millions of bucks a year in subscription charges alone.


Charging for Facebook


Luckily for Facebook individuals, the firm presently has no plans to begin billing for the solution. According to a Business Week meeting with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook pays as well as expanding rapidly based only on the toughness of its advertising revenues. So while it's tough to search in to the future and also state with assurance what Facebook's organisation design will certainly resemble, for the time being Facebook addicts can maintain their cash in their wallets when they go to. The next Facebook misconception additionally has massive monetary effects, but except Facebook customers.

Don't worry, the social networks website is not going to start billing you. Facebook also created a help web page simply to say this: "Facebook is a complimentary site and will never ever require that you pay to continue utilizing the website."

The page then takes place to describe that, yes, you might pay money for some video games as well as various other apps you use the website. And if you discuss your cellphone's information restriction while utilizing Facebook, you'll need to pay for that, too.