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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

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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.

[Deleted User]

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.

returnNull

Not a fukking hope!

There's some saying about a fool and his money.....

Paramite Pie

tdv123 wrote: »

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

Celebs will probably not respond anyways. Some sad people are going to spend a fortune on this, bombarding celebs with mail. Also some celebs may be uncomfortable with the idea of people being charged to message them.

For example I stopped using farmville years ago and yet some stranger on facebook was spending 'farmcash' (which costs real money to buy) on my farm to revive my crops (even in recent months). I blocked them and removed my farmville account for their own protection.

paulbok

Celebrities would have to pay me to talk to them.

FFS, when I read this I had to check if it was still April 1st.

NIMAN

Straight answer, no.

And I don't use Facebook anyway.

And I am a real hater of the 'celeb' culture, so it would also depend on what is classed as a 'celeb'. Tom Daly=no, Robert de Niro=yes.

But I still wouldn't pay to email Bobby either.

tdv123

Paramite Pie wrote: »

Celebs will probably not respond anyways. Some sad people are going to spend a fortune on this, bombarding celebs with mail. Also some celebs may be uncomfortable with the idea of people being charged to message them.

For example I stopped using farmville years ago and yet some stranger on facebook was spending 'farmcash' (which costs real money to buy) on my farm to revive my crops (even in recent months). I blocked them and removed my farmville account for their own protection.

Isn't that there own fault for being so stupid tho? If I was getting bombard with messages like celebrities do I wouldn't write back to anybody either.

tdv123

paulbok wrote: »

Celebrities would have to pay me to talk to them.

FFS, when I read this I had to check if it was still April 1st.

Why?

Allyall

paulbok wrote: »

Celebrities would have to pay me to talk to them.

FFS, when I read this I had to check if it was still April 1st.

tdv123 wrote: »

Why?

Huh?

sock puppet

tdv123 wrote: »

Isn't that there own fault for being so stupid tho? If I was getting bombard with messages like celebrities do I wouldn't write back to anybody either.

They won't be bombarded with messages though. They'll only be able to receive one message per week. For now it's entirely a spam recuding measure and won't raise any noticeable amount of revenue.

token101

How are people going to be classed as celebrities though? I mean, there's going to be the obvious ones but what about reality TV stars and politicians? Are they really going to charge me 11 euro for that? Because I really don't want to have to go old school and revert to poison pen and buying lots of magazines and stamps again.

TheDoc

Aimed at children and young teens. A bit exploitive if we are all honest. A Celeb will now hire someone to simply manage their FB messages as they rake in a small percentage from Facebook. And a child or teen thinking Justin Bieber just told them to believe, is some random bloke sitting in an entirely different country pasting a templated response.

Pretty shoddy of Facebook, but even more reflective off modern society, especially our children and teens that they would even go for this, and believe they get a response from the actual individual.

I'm still in my 20's and it baffles the mind whats going through the minds of people only a few years younger.

I'm a firm believer that Social Media platforms have a lifespan. At the start there was a high turnover, and as time went on the newcomers learned from mistakes gone by and became a more solid base. Facebook obviously is a revenue goliath now, but at the end of the day, the userbase dictates everything. And there will definitely be a time when Facebook will simply just become old news. And it is usually when a social media platform becomes bloated, and spam for games and advertisement is more frequent then actual messages from friends.

I use Facebook to keep in touch with two groups who are reluctant to change. Anything meaningful and actually having discussions, has for me moved to Google plus a good while ago now.