BREAKING - Facebook has announced a host of new changes to its design and new plan – charging users!
Mark Zuckerberg announced a host of new changes to Facebook. He did not, however, comment on the fact that he was closing Facebook down next year.
WWN’s J.B. Smitts broke the story that Facebook was shutting down on March 15th, 2012. Maybe this helped Zuckerberg come up with his new plan?
Pressure from angry users has been too much and Facebook is looking at an alternative, something that will persuade Mark Zuckerberg to keep the site alive: his social media platform is going to start charging users!
Facebook is planning a subscription-based service with monthly fees starting at $0.99 for a basic “friendship” which allows for the posting of text and just one profile picture. This fee will increase, depending on the number of friends you have, the messages posted and sent, and the pictures/videos/ games put on a user’s page. The monthly fee will be capped at $50.00 per month at the high-end.
Bottom line: the more you use Facebook, the more you will pay.
All existing content has been “grandfathered” and will not be disrupted – though Facebook has decided to share this data with government agencies, including the FBI , the CIA and Michael Moore.
Goldman Sachs, which had been planning to raise $1.5 billion in financing before they learned that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to shutter the site, is thrilled at the prospect of Facebook converting to a pay service.
“The addition of this substantial revenue windfall makes Facebook all that more attractive as an investment,” said Tom Wortowski, Senior Vice President of Goldman Sachs. “This will make it the largest corporation on the planet, in the history of the planet.”
Industry watchers estimate that the new fee-based program will generate well in excess of $20 billion in new revenue for the company – based on the most conservative assumptions of usage and the proposed tiered fee structure.
These estimates, of course, account for the fact that millions of users may quit Facebook in response to the imposition of fees. “I’m not going to pay for Facebook! It’s like paying for air. It’s not right,” said longtime Facebook junkie, Jessica Samsille. “Screw them, I’m going back to MySpace,” said Bo Chan.
No matter. Facebook executives are excited at the prospect of charging users. “We’re going to make money hand over fist,” said Facebook CEO Cindy Sherman. “I think converting to a pay service is something that will make Mark want to keep the site going. And I’ll finally get to buy an island in the Mediterranean.”
March 15th, 2012 is Facebook Day. The site will either shut down, or start charging users for its service.
Beware the ides of March
This is the kind of crap that feeds people the idea that Facebook will charge for their services. The same thing happened to MySpace and guess what! It’s still free! Crappy, by free!
On the Facebook sign up/log in screen it clear says:
Sign Up
It’s free and always will be.
So, Mr. Media Person Website Thing: Stop feed false information and scaring the crap out of those who don’t know any better.
Yeesh.
If FB starts charging they won’t be making money off me hand and fist because I will quit. The CEO’s getting a tickle up their legs about making money hand over fist, well make when people start dropping FB from their daily lives than we’ll see how much money they make. Since these
screw with the news feed thats not broke, but we will break it by changing it . High % of users dislike the change, in my circle I would put it at 99.9 % against the new look . And FB keeps not responding since changes have started happening. When you have a good thing don’t change it , you get GREEDY and screw with things it backfires and goes down the toilet, it will never get back to what it was if you jack the people who made it profitable.