Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
11-05-2012, 20:02
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Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
Thin end of the wedge?
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Facebook has started testing a system that lets users pay to highlight or promote posts.
By paying a small fee users can ensure that information they post on the social network is more visible to friends, family and colleagues.
The tests are being carried out among the social network's users in New Zealand.
Facebook said the goal was to see if users were interested in paying to flag up their information.
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11-05-2012, 20:05
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re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
The title of the thread is misleading they are not testing pay to post but pay to highlight a post.
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11-05-2012, 20:17
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
Thread title amended
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11-05-2012, 21:19
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
I'm sure the "mark as spam" button will be getting a hammering
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11-05-2012, 22:26
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
Most interesting part of this is why they demo most of their new features in New Zealand. Apparently amongst their social graph New Zealand users are poorly inter-connected with people from elsewhere in the globe and not as populated as America. So they can test things there with minimal disruption for others.
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11-05-2012, 22:33
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Once they get the taste for charging you there will be no end to it. Oh well thankfully i can use other methods for contacting people.
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12-05-2012, 08:41
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They will kill FB is they start chargingfor memeberships but atleast with this news its just a option if the user chooses, if they charge for FB I would just leave don't use it that much anyways.
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12-05-2012, 08:56
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
Facebook will never charge its members.
It may offer pay services as it is doing with this highlighted posts idea but it will never charge users for use of the site.
It would lose too many members.
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12-05-2012, 10:19
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
I can't see them charging to use facebook, it would be like commercial suicide but then companies have been known to do some pretty stupid things.
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12-05-2012, 10:30
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
I can see companies and business especially small ones using the pay for page as a means of advertising.
Everyone else would desert in droves and go to another social network.
So I can see a model where there will be a free bug ridden version and a paid for account version which is bug free.Just as we have with Spotify and other networking pages with free and paid accounts.
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12-05-2012, 10:54
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I can see companies and business especially small ones using the pay for page as a means of advertising.
Everyone else would desert in droves and go to another social network.
So I can see a model where there will be a free bug ridden version and a paid for account version which is bug free.Just as we have with Spotify and other networking pages with free and paid accounts.
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12-05-2012, 11:47
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
Not that I care, but...
Is there advertising currently on Facebook? Because you can bet there will be if there isn't already, once this comes in...which it will, as there's money in it. 
Aren't we drowning enough in advertising already? Why encourage them?
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
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Not that I care, but...
Is there advertising currently on Facebook? Because you can bet there will be if there isn't already, once this comes in...which it will, as there's money in it.
Aren't we drowning enough in advertising already? Why encourage them?
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12-05-2012, 14:41
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
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I block as much as i can by using firefox and Ad Block Plus It removes ads from most sites and forums |
But you disable for THIS site though, right?
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12-05-2012, 16:26
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Re: Facebook Test Pay to Promote Post
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But you disable for THIS site though, right? |
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