Re: [liberationtech] Facebook Allows You to Pay $1 to Message Anyone

2013-01-07 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I rather suspect that this is prelude to Facebook monetizing the suckers again by charging advertizers bulk rates, e.g., $350K to hit 1M users, where the 1M are targeted a selected based on information in FB's databases. Once the billing infrastructure is in place (and it sounds like it already

[liberationtech] Facebook Allows You to Pay $1 to Message Anyone

2012-12-22 Thread Greg Norcie
Hi all, I just read this article about Facebook's recent change to messages: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2022925/facebooks-1-message-test-opens-inboxes-to-strangers.html The gist is that you can pay a dollar to make sure your message is delivered: In the test, users can pay $1 to make sure