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Would you pay to talk to a celeb on FB?

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  • #2
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    no.


  • #3
    Matt_Trakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Matt_Trakker


    Maggie Thatcher.


  • #4
    schnitzelEater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭schnitzelEater


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


  • #5
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


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


  • #6
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    What the hell is wrong with people.


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  • #7
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    yermandan wrote: »
    send an email to Tom Daley!!!

    Who?


  • #8
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    No


  • #9
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #10
    markie29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭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


  • #11
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


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


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  • #12
    schnitzelEater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭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?


  • #13
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Yeah right, pay to send a message to some spotty teenager that is corresponding for so called celebrities. Tom Daley :confused: 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!


  • #15
    Davian Rapid Wimp
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Davian Rapid Wimp


    Could just go on reddit for free


  • #16
    stmol32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


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


  • #17
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • #20
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    irish bloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭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


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  • #22
    schnitzelEater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭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?


  • #23
    schnitzelEater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭schnitzelEater


    jester77 wrote: »
    Yeah right, pay to send a message to some spotty teenager that is corresponding for so called celebrities. Tom Daley :confused: 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?


  • #24
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    Mince Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    Erm, have Facebook not heard of Twitter???


  • #27
    Caveman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Caveman1


    Its almost as ridiculous as people buying followers on twitter.


  • #28
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


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


  • #30
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


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