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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould you pay a hundred bucks to message Mark Zuckerberg?
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/finance/20130111/US.TEC.Facebook.Messages/Would you pay $100 to message Mark Zuckerberg? Facebook says it's testing some "extreme price points" to let users pay to have their messages seen by people who are not their friends.
The tech blog Mashable reported early Friday that some users trying to message Zuckerberg are offered the option to pay $100 to ensure that their missive reaches the Facebook CEO's inbox. Without paying, the message would likely end up in Zuckerberg's "other" message folder, an oft-overlooked purgatory between the spam folder and the inbox.
Facebook says it's testing the "extreme" prices to "see what works to filter spam. The company is also testing a service that lets people pay $1 per message to route communications to non-friends' inboxes.
Zuckerberg has more than 16 million followers on the site.
The tech blog Mashable reported early Friday that some users trying to message Zuckerberg are offered the option to pay $100 to ensure that their missive reaches the Facebook CEO's inbox. Without paying, the message would likely end up in Zuckerberg's "other" message folder, an oft-overlooked purgatory between the spam folder and the inbox.
Facebook says it's testing the "extreme" prices to "see what works to filter spam. The company is also testing a service that lets people pay $1 per message to route communications to non-friends' inboxes.
Zuckerberg has more than 16 million followers on the site.
I most certainly would not. Since I'm in the area, it would be cheaper for me to just head up there and set his lawn on fire.
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Would you pay a hundred bucks to message Mark Zuckerberg? (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jan 2013
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samsingh
(17,599 posts)1. i wouldn't pay a dollar
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)2. An innovation born out of narcissism
Some guy at Facebook said, "Hey, we're so special I bet peons will pay to talk to us".
A few lines of code later, and we will see proof of him being correct
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)3. No.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. Oh look a new venue for celebrity merchandizing... n/t
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)5. Let him go to a message parlor like the rest of us
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)6. Go to your room!
quinnox
(20,600 posts)7. Nope, I don't find CEOs interesting or "sexy" in the least
Not even the guy who started Apple, who everyone seems to have a fetish for or hold in awe. (yes, I know he has passed away, but that hasn't stopped the obsession, from what I have seen on the internet)
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)8. I swear I read that as
"Would you pay a hundred bucks to massage Mark Zuckerberg?" I was wondering why he wasn't the one paying since he would get the massage. Sorry, it's just not my day today.