Facebook tests paid post promotion
“Make sure friends see this” by handing over cash
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Facebook has been spotted trialling a service that allows users to pay a small fee, said to be US$2 dollars, to highlight posts to “Make sure friends see this.”
New Zealand website Stuff.co.nz learned of the feature, pictured below, and extracted a confirmation from a Facebook spokesfriend to the effect that the feature is being tested on a select group of users.
The test of the feature is notable, given the social network’s looming IPO and associated raised eyebrows that it is not making an awful lot of money given the colossal size of its member base.
Those hordes will also soon get the chance to share files among themselves. A slew of reports suggest group members will be offered the chance to upload items up to 25 megabytes in size. That’s no DropBox-killer, but probably isn’t welcome news for the growing cloud storage and synchronisation crowd either. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Look at me, look at me
Actually I am so interested in my friends lives that I keep in regular touch with them by face to face meeting or talking on the phone, that way I can address the individual interests of each one rather than employ the scattergun and tell everyone everything and letting them pick through the pile to find the bits that interest each individual.
Facebook is actually destroying the art of friendship by dumbing it down to the point of posting on a web site... looks like an ideal candidate for ITV to buy... its likely to fit with the Jeremy Kyle viewerbase really well, in fact ITV could trawl the site to find candidates for future shows!
There is more to friendship than posting to facebook.
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The Rise and Fail of a Social Network
PHASE 1: Hip young thing.
Characterised by: It's where the cool kids are.
PHASE 2: Exponential growth AKA Middle aged spread.
Characterised by: Everyone and their mother joins.
PHASE 3: Increasingly desperate attempts to monetize the user base.
Characterised by: Unlikely sounding business plans mocked by the media.
PHASE 4: Vicious cycle of lame AKA The users are revolting
Characterised by: Attempts to generate any sort of profit are vigorously rejected by user base.
PHASE 5: Undead Army
Characterised by: Mass abandonment of accounts, site fills up with advertising as no one is complaining about it any more.
PHASE 6: Caveat Emptor
Characterised by: Sold for obscene quantity of cash to people that should know better.
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