Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Facebook charging for uploads

I don't know why people keep thinking Facebook is going to charge people for any kind of access. They because successful because they're free, and they continue to make metric assloads of money by staying free. If they were to start charging it would become a ghost-town overnight when people immigrate to a new, free service. They make their money from ads on the pages; the more people they can encourage to come on the site the better. It's like radio. You 'give away' the content, but the people listening hear ads as well as what they're there for.

Snopes post about it

It would be a terrible business decision for Facebook to charge for access, and they're smart enough not to do it. It would be like Google charging for searches.

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