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Facebook Will Begin Charging to Send Messages to Certain Users, Some Cost $100

Last month, social media giant Facebook announced that it would begin testing out paid messages. These paid messages would allow users to contact people with whom they have no direct connection in return for a fee. They did not announce how much it would cost.

However, it has been discovered that sending a message to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg costs $100. CNNMoney reports that messages to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg, CFO David Ebersman, and several other Facebook members, such as Digg founder Kevin Rose carry the same price tag.

In the past, messages sent by someone who is not in a user's network would get sent to their "Other" mailbox. This little known practice was created to protect users from spam.

A Facebook representative told CNNMoney that the social media site is "testing some extreme price points to see what works to filter spam."

The messaging fee is one of several tactics Facebook is testing out to generate revenue. The media site is now looking for ways to create revenue directly from its 1 billion users.

Facebook recently launched Facebook Gifts, which allows users to purchase gifts for their friends. The site has also been testing out its new "Promote" feature which allows users to broadcast important pictures or announcements for $7.

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0 #4 Mary Kay Cassano 2013-04-22 08:00

I will stop Facebook before I ever pay a fee.

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+2 #3 Justin 2013-03-04 21:00

I will NOT AY A SINGLE DIME FOR FACEBOOK!I will just cancel my account. Zuckerberg needs to stop the GREED.

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+3 #2 Robb 2013-02-13 17:25

Give facebook a year from now. it will soon be evident if they keep this $1.00 circus of a charade up that their billions of net worth will turn to millions & their millions will turn into dreaded thousands until they cannibalize themselves into debt by driving all their devoted loyal facebook users away to other social media sites. If they lied once about facebook being free & always will be free by implementing this "Test" charge of $1.00, just imagine what else they might squeeze in & tack on later on to use another quick money making idea. How many promises & deceptions of them stating that they are free & always will be free will be have to buy into them telling us before we get hip to knowing that if everyone abides & bows down to this $1.00 fee , there will be lots of other money costing tests to find out how far they can & will go to dig deeper & deeper into our pockets to see how far use facebook users will allow them to get money from us as they tell us they were always free?

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+3 #1 Robb 2013-02-13 16:59

I remember when they said during that one scandal. "facebook is free & always will be free." What a lie that was. I think facebook needs to charge themselves for spam maintenance not their loyal users. Money has always came between friends & family & now it's coming between the common business partners. facebook & it's users both. I think there are ulterior motives here & I don't think it's to make spam guard better. I think that is what they want us to think it is when it may be because of the economy & they are just hurting for more cash. Yeah facebook has billions of dollars in revenue & have a new worth just the same , but everyone can always use more money to replace that money that is always being spent & always replacing it each time however little or a lot is being spent so the glass is never half empty. I will never buy into this as if it were some new tested Spam Guard control method. I know it's because of the economy & facebook doesn't want to admit they want more money.

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