Would you pay to talk to a celeb on FB?

yermandan

So, Facebook are starting to charge people to contact celebs. The example in the article is around 11 Sterling to send an email to Tom Daley!!!

Is there anyone you would pay to contact? From what I can gather, there is no guarantee of a response.

Madness IMO

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/08/facebook-charging-users-celebrities

FatherLen

no.

Matt_Trakker

Maggie Thatcher.

schnitzelEater

No, but I don't have a Facebook account anyway.

antodeco

I had to google who he was. He's kinda young....and male.....and I can get free porn online!

Just Like Heaven

What the hell is wrong with people.

gobnaitolunacy

yermandan wrote: »

send an email to Tom Daley!!!

Who?

Sunnyisland

No

Rabies

yermandan wrote: »

So, Facebook are starting to charge people to contact celebs. The example in the article is around 11 Sterling to send an email to Tom Daley!!!

Is there anyone you would pay to contact? From what I can gather, there is no guarantee of a response.

Madness IMO

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/08/facebook-charging-users-celebrities

If I didn't want to pay the $1.47 to message my flatmate on FB this eve (we're not FB friends), then I'm not going to pay a stupid amount to message a celeb so their P.A. can reply

markie29

pay to send an email to a celebrity on facebook?? ...i think i will just do it the free old fashioned way and stalk them

demanufactured

Ah yeah tommy Daley.....he's a guard that lives on my street.

schnitzelEater

Rabies wrote: »

If I didn't want to pay the $1.47 to message my flatmate on FB this eve (we're not FB friends), then I'm not going to pay a stupid amount to message a celeb so their P.A. can reply

Why aren't you friends? Did he finish the last of the milk or something?

anncoates

You mean send a mail to the FB maintained by some work experience student in the publicity office of the celebrity concerned?

Yeah. It sounds like great value for money.

For spastics.

jester77

Yeah right, pay to send a message to some spotty teenager that is corresponding for so called celebrities. Tom Daley Wasn't he that decatholon dude from the 80s that won a few Olympic medals, I think I recall finding his card in a pack of cornflakes box about 25 or 30 years ago. He should pay me to send him a message!

Could just go on reddit for free

stmol32

I'd pay to chat with like Desmond Tutu or Bob Holness but only if I could get really graphic.

Optimalprimerib

I would I think its a great idea, the public are stealing their image rights by downloading their movies and music, it is a good way to give money to the actual talent.

Duggy747

Or how about throwing your money into the toilet and flushing it?

At least that way you'll see it being put to relatively good use.

NothingMan

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

I would I think its a great idea, the public are stealing their image rights by downloading their movies and music, it is a good way to give money to the actual talent.

As far as I'm aware FB never mentioned anything about the money going to the celebrity...

Rabies

schnitzelEater wrote: »

Why aren't you friends? Did he finish the last of the milk or something?

He has been living her a few of months, and going back to Germany at the end of this month.
Have no interest in being "friends" on FB with him when I am not friends with him in my day to day life.

irish bloke

There must be a market for it or they wouldn't be doing it.
You would be surprised what some people are into

schnitzelEater

Rabies wrote: »

He has been living her a few of months, and going back to Germany at the end of this month.
Have no interest in being "friends" on FB with him when I am not friends with him in my day to day life.

So what are you complaining about exactly?

schnitzelEater

jester77 wrote: »

Yeah right, pay to send a message to some spotty teenager that is corresponding for so called celebrities. Tom Daley Wasn't he that decatholon dude from the 80s that won a few Olympic medals, I think I recall finding his card in a pack of cornflakes box about 25 or 30 years ago. He should pay me to send him a message!

Is that not Daley Thompson?

Rabies

schnitzelEater wrote: »

So what are you complaining about exactly?

I was doing him a favour and putting a link to his car on my wall. Sending me the link via FB was the quickest way to do it.

Needed to add him to do it. Will delete him in a few weeks. He won't notice.

IM0

yermandan wrote: »

So, Facebook are starting to charge people to contact celebs. The example in the article is around 11 Sterling to send an email to Tom Daley!!!

Is there anyone you would pay to contact? From what I can gather, there is no guarantee of a response.

Madness IMO

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/08/facebook-charging-users-celebrities

yes. it is.

Mince Pie

Erm, have Facebook not heard of Twitter???

Caveman1

Its almost as ridiculous as people buying followers on twitter.

Dravokivich

Mince Pie wrote: »

Erm, have Facebook not heard of Twitter???

The idea is to reduce spam, by discouraging you from messaging those not on your friends list with financial penalties.



I don't agree with it entirely myself, as you could end up coming across the profile of someone you were briefly acquainted with through a friend and it's somewhat off putting to message them if you've to pay, where as it'd be more odd to just add them as friends beforehand without any message.

Caveman1 wrote: »

Its almost as ridiculous as people buying followers on twitter.

Same thing happened on facebook, wouldn't be too surprised if it's somewhat involved in this scheme too.

Lando Griffin

I would think the cast of Tallafornia will be delighted with this move.

PizzamanIRL

No.

I don't get why people get so obsessed about celebrities.

The sad thing is there's plenty of naive people out there who will cough up money to get a message from a celebrity.

Dravokivich

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

No.

I don't get why people get so obsessed about celebrities.

The sad thing is there's plenty of naive people out there who will cough up money to get a message from a celebrity.

You're missing the point. They aren't selling the ability for messaging a celebrity and to get a response from that celebrity. They are apparently looking to implement a series of charges for messaging people you aren't associated with as friends on Facebook. While basing said charges on how much public attention/worth the recipient holds.

1ZRed

Duggy747 wrote: »

Or how about throwing your money into the toilet and flushing it?

At least that way you'll see it being put to relatively good use.

As far as I'm concerned you cold do the same with Facebook now. It's filled to the rafters with nonsensical, self absorbed shite and is gradually becoming more and more like bebo in that way.

We need something new.

Ash.J.Williams

Facebook has people by the balls, in the way that it's quite useful for keeping in touch with friends....however beside that function it's dying by the day.


(well in truth it's probably growing by the day...but you know what i mean)

TheLastMohican

And, as usual, I'd be talking to myself

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Ah Facebook.

Blatently gathering peoples information since 2004. Please upload as many photos and as much personal info as you like. Also please let your friends tag you in the places you haven't got around to checking in to yet.

Oh and if you could go ahead and enter in your bank account/credit card info to message "celebs" that wold be greeeeeaaaaat!

Allyall

Didn't see this thread when i was looking..

I think it's madness, and hilarious..

So if i got 2,000 friends on Facebooks, could i start to charge people outside my circle to contact me?

Why's Facebooks choosing who is worth money?

They're screwed if their users discover the rest of the internet world.

EDIT - Just read another link

Facebook is planning to charge users if they want to send a message to people who are not part of their network on the site.

At present, people can message anyone on the site for free.

The social networking giant is testing a system whereby a user will have to pay to send a message to someone who is not a “friend” or a “friend of a friend” with the cost rising depending on how well known their target is.

So can people make money off this? Or is it just FB?

yermandan

Dravokivich wrote: »

You're missing the point. They aren't selling the ability for messaging a celebrity and to get a response from that celebrity. They are apparently looking to implement a series of charges for messaging people you aren't associated with as friends on Facebook. While basing said charges on how much public attention/worth the recipient holds.

Yes I typed the thread title in a rush, the above quote is what's happening. And it's just FB who make the money, in the same way that they profit from businesses promoting certain posts

castletownman

John Terry won't stop poking my girlfriend on it.

So I might just pay up to have a word with him :mad:

ScumLord

I assume this wouldn't apply to Facebook pages? Would make having a page for your company pretty pointless.

percy212

I hope this is the end of Facebook. Insidious platform.

Even if you offered me this 'opportunity' for free, I wouln't have the time or the inclination.

So I'm fcuked if I'd pay for it

Fr_Fitzexactly

Can't think of a single celebrity I'd like to send a message to even if it was free

Bajingo

As it is now, could I send a message to this Tom Daley guy or any other celebrity for that matter for free on facebook?

P_1

Fools and their money...

Rented Mule

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

What the hell is wrong with people.

Post of the decade.

You summed it up nicely.

twowheelsonly

I sent a message to someone I'm not friends with about a week ago and got a popup message regarding this.
It was offering to send the message to their Inbox for 76 cents or alternatively the message would go to their 'Other' box.
Never even knew that this 'other' box existed until then. Obviously I didn't pay it and just sent the message anyway but decided to have a look at my own Other box and found 34 messages there dating back to 2008 !!
You don't get a notification for these and most people don't even know that this box exists. (It's on a tab alongside your Inbox when you open up your Inbox.)

I certainly won't be paying for this, especially when there's so many other ways to contact people these days.

Gorilla Rising

This is seems to be a way of preventing people from culling friends on Facebook...but why would they want you to have all those 'friends' just in case....

If Facebook was in any way an ethical and genuine product there'd be no need for all the cloak and dagger manoeuvers. This isn't the case. People are the product.

WoollyRedHat

I'd pay for Kate Winslet to send a few nude pictures over FB... oh wait

Paramite Pie

I doubt the people your messaging get any of the money.... What if I was a celebrity and didn't want my fans charged to message me? Would I have right to object?

Obviously that doesn't apply to me but still.... can we put ourselves down as a freebie?

How long before facebook is no longer free? I give it a couple of years...

tdv123

Paramite Pie wrote: »

I doubt the people your messaging get any of the money.... What if I was a celebrity and didn't want my fans charged to message me? Would I have right to object?

Obviously that doesn't apply to me but still.... can we put ourselves down as a freebie?

How long before facebook is no longer free? I give it a couple of years...

You can still send messages to celebs for free. It just goes into a different folder than the payed ones. Good idea I think.

Chuck Stone

The only passing interest I ever take in celebs is watching them suffer in that jungle show.