Facebook isn't charging for poking, and "liking" a photo is still chargeless on the amusing networking site.
But these days, sending a clandestine bulletin to anyone can amount
anywhere from $1 to $100 - if you're sending to anyone like Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, that is.
"We are testing some acute amount credibility to see what works to clarify spam," said a Facebook spokeswoman.
Endure month, Facebook alien "paid messages," a affection area users
pay a $1 fee to accept their clandestine bulletin beatific to an
individual's "strict clarification inbox" instead of an abstruse "other"
inbox. Before the change, Facebook users were accustomed to forward a
clandestine bulletin chargeless to anyone they didn't apperceive or
weren't affiliated with.
"Several commentators and advisers accept acclaimed that arty a banking
amount on the sender may be the a lot of able way to abash exceptionable
letters and facilitate supply of letters that are accordant and
useful," Facebook said in a Dec. 20 statement.
Facebook told ABCNews.com that the $100 clandestine bulletin action is
an agreement not just with Zuckerberg but to those with a cogent amount
of subscribers. Remember, subscribers are humans who aren't your
accompany but can appearance the agreeable you allotment with them
because they chase you. Facebook calls these subscribers a broader
accumulation of friends.
"This analysis will accord a baby amount of humans the advantage to pay
to accept a bulletin baffled to the 'inbox' rather than the 'other'
binder of a almsman that they are not affiliated with," said Facebook.
"If you baddest austere filtering, you'll see mostly letters from
accompany in your inbox."
Since extensive 1 billion users endure October, the amusing arrangement
behemothic has been revamping its aloofness settings and alteration the
attending and feel of the Facebook acquaintance online and in adaptable
devices.
Facebook is "testing acute amount credibility to annihilate spam" with
its new messaging fee, the website said. As users become added
acquainted with the new messaging fee, they'll apprehension the amount
of letters accustomed will be bound to a best of one a week.
Facebook told ABCNews.com there's a lot of clarification accident
consistent in accepting the letters that are alone meant for you, the
user. As far as the acknowledgment to Facebook's new "paid messages"
feature, Facebook offered no comment.
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