Facebook to Charge Fees

Facebook To Charge Fees - We've heard our entire lives that there's no such thing as a free lunch, so it's just all-natural for people to think Facebook might start billing for its solution. This rumor seems particularly plausible when you think about arguments like the one Slate publication writer Farhad Manjoo presented in a column from 2008. Manjoo explained that if also 5 percent of Facebook individuals agreed to pay $5 a month for the solution (with the continuing to be users downgraded to restricted accounts), Facebook can create thousands of millions of dollars a year in membership fees alone.


Facebook To Charge Fees


Luckily for Facebook users, the business presently has no plans to start billing for the service. According to a Business Week interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook is profitable as well as expanding quickly based just on the stamina of its marketing profits. So while it's hard to look in to the future and also claim with assurance what Facebook's organisation version will appear like, for the time being Facebook addicts can maintain their cash in their pocketbooks when they log on. The next Facebook misconception additionally has significant financial ramifications, yet except Facebook customers.

Don't worry, the social media sites website is not mosting likely to begin charging you. Facebook also created an assistance page simply to say this: "Facebook is a free website and will certainly never require that you pay to proceed using the site."

The page then goes on to discuss that, yes, you might pay cash for some video games and other apps you use the site. And if you go over your mobile phone's information restriction while making use of Facebook, you'll need to pay for that, as well.