Facebook to start charging
 

On September 30th, 2011 Facebook will start charging you for your account. To avoid this, you MUST get NAKED, use a PERMANENT marker pen and write on your forehead the word S-U-C-K-E-R, and then stand on your dining room table and do the Macarena, all the while singing ”I Will Survive”. After filming and posting it to your Facebook wall and YouTube, then, and only then, will Mark Zuckerberg come down your chimney to tell you that your account will stay free. Pass it on, it must be true because someone on Facebook I hardly know told me.

I heard that from my neighbor. He said that his barber's wife's paperboy's best friend is the pool boy for Zuckerberg and he heard him on the phone ordering the change.

Warning! This is a scam. If someone asks you to post yourself naked doing the Macarena on a table with S * U * C * K * E * R code marked on your forehead, don't do it.

I still have the marker on me and no one named Mark has even come to my door. I kept reposting it over and over again, five times, but no luck. I wished I had never done this now. I just feel so used.

Just an observation:

- When Yahoo updates their homepage, they just do it. People adjust and life goes on.

- Apple creates a totally new and different technology - ie: a new way of doing things, and folks don't complain about it -- rather, they embrace it - even desire it.

- When Facebook updates their homepage, they make a huge announcement about how their change will actually cause the earth's tilt to change -0.00002 degrees. And people get in an uproar and demmand things change back to the way they were...

I confess, I joined facebook this summer - primarily to be able to see pics of my newborn niece. Either they haven't applied those changes yet, or they haven't touched my account yet -- but I see no significant difference.

Change is necessary, especially when it comes to technology. If facebook users don't understand this, then maybe they need to turn off their computer, go outside and make some real friends, to explain reality to them...

-Z-man.

I cancelled my FB account. I had it for years. Checked in every now and then. It seemed worthless and stupid. I decided I did not want to be another one of the lemmings. Sorry to those who are in love with FB.

That was your forehead??

There are several companies (and no doubt some government agencies) that triangulate information from Facebook and any and all other social media to build a dossier on you. For the private companies, it's all about marketing.

Paranoid fantasy? Hardly. Check out the most public of the information-gatherers: rapleaf.com (center bottom, you can opt out).

Interestingly, we see a split, where 20-somethings are happy to share everything about their lives with everyone, and the older Internet users are increasingly concerned about that knowledge. Facebook is geared to serve the 20-somethings who don't care. Imagine the different reactions to the scene in Minority Report where the billboards are talking to Anderton. The 40+ audience his horrified, the 20-something audience is titillated.

What is this "facebook" thing you refer to? :confused:

Un-like

Never been to FB, or Twitter, or MySpace.

Have to admit about two years ago got talked into a FB account to keep track of friends and relatives all over the country.

But now I check in less and less.

Seems to have jumped the shark... my friend who got me started (and introduced me to my wife) posts from his iPhone "had breakfast here... had lunch there" uh... and we need to know this why?

It is an easy way to blog and share pictures.

The day they start charging is the day I drop my account... but the rumor of them charging has been floating around for some time.

Crackbook....

Hugh, you are rich, they already put a chip in your melon to keep you from absconding with your income generating ability.

What color is half joking supposed to be?

Is facebook not going to be free anymore for real? I generally use it to keep up with family more conveniently. Every month or two, like, well not like clockwork.

Bill, as a 27 year old, I'm torn on this subject. I feel paranoid about "checking-in" and being "tagged", so I never do it. Also my status updates are usually something stupid, funny or clever. I never tell people where I am or what I'm doing or toot my horn about my accomplishments on fb.

It's tough when you go out with a big group though. Inevitably someone breaks out the phone and does a mobile upload or status update and tags you. Then you get home and see it and feel a small part of the life that you own whither away and die. :rolleyes:

OK, I am serious here, no green font.

Is facebook really going to start charging? And if so, how? They do not have my credit card info (to my knowledge :eek::().

If they are going to start charging I will close my account.

No, facebook will always be free.

They make their money from adds, if they charge the users, the users will leave and they won't have the numbers needed for add revenue.


Much like google, they would shoot themselves in the foot to charge. They need large user numbers.

Facebook is on the decline. I know several people age 17-21 who have deleted their Facebook page recently. Everyone who is going to get a FB page has one already except for toddlers who will undoubtedly get them as they grow older.

I still have a FB page but I'm considering deleting it.

They will have to start paying people to stay at FB.

Jackson

Facebook is the next MySpace.

You people are almost as funny as FB....