22 January 2010

Will Facebook become a paysite in the near future?

This one really baffles me.

Type "Paysite" into Facebook's search and you will be presented with 483 Group results most of which are to do with getting users to join that particular group with the aim to petition against Facebook charging users for having accounts.

The most notable of which are titled:
How deluded are these (468,952 + 64,487 = 533,439, give or take a few) people?

Here is Facebook's mission as taken from their Fan Page

"Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet."

How would charging to use the site furthering their aim of making the world "more open and connected"? They are already making millions of $'s through Advertising as well as through their own applications (Facebook Gifts for example).

There have been many reports from various sources and much speculation about this, including one from an independent, however seemingly reliable source, AllFacebook.com as well as this one How does Facebook make money?

It is just frightening how easy it is to circulate false rumours and create a sense of fear and panic in thousands of people worldwide. Which leads me to wonder, why are people so gullible? With Google at our fingertips, we now have access to a vast amount of resources (a lot of them unreliable and untrue).

If a person takes the time to research something and learns how to filter through all the untruths, the world would be a much less paranoid place.

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