“Based on their apparent business model however I don't think that would work for them as their users (or products) are probably more valuable to advertisers without that type of service.”

I doubt that the value of each user to Facebook per year is $10 dollars. If that is the case they will bring $4.5bn in revenue this year.

At this point it would just be insulting to do that. Facebook would literally be destroying people's pages who decided not to upgrade or putting them totally on blast. You have to remember those “premium” services you talk about are all free now and people have very sensitive information on their page that they put up and hide from some (the world and even certain friends) for various reasons. What happens on the day the changes are implemented and that person decided not to pay. What happens if that person hasn't' checked their FB in two months. No, I have to say that would be a nail in the coffin move just from the initial outrage alone. Not to mention their potential competition would seize that opportunity in a minute. I can totally imagine Google getting in the game at that point and you pretty much know once that happens it's over for FB. Google actually knows how to go about taking the world over in a way that somehow doesn't SEEM too intrusive. Go figure…

I agree that FB is going in the wrong direction here and they need to fix this. I like the idea of paying not to have ads show up on your page. Based on their apparent business model however I don't think that would work for them as their users (or products) are probably more valuable to advertisers without that type of service. Being able to offer 400 mil users has much more profit potential than 300 mil with the potential of the #'s dwindling even further.

The scary thing is I think the direction they're going in know I think is also evil genius. If they are not stopped immediately at some point it will be too late. They would have too much information, they would have made too many inroads and we'd be too dependent on them to give them up. Think GOOGLE.

“Based on their apparent business model however I don't think that would work for them as their users (or products) are probably more valuable to advertisers without that type of service.”

I doubt that the value of each user to Facebook per year is $10 dollars. If that is the case they will bring $4.5bn in revenue this year.

“Based on their apparent business model however I don't think that would work for them as their users (or products) are probably more valuable to advertisers without that type of service.”

I doubt that the value of each user to Facebook per year is $10 dollars. If that is the case they will bring $4.5bn in revenue this year.

At this point it would just be insulting to do that. Facebook would literally be destroying people's pages who decided not to upgrade or putting them totally on blast. You have to remember those “premium” services you talk about are all free now and people have very sensitive information on their page that they put up and hide from some (the world and even certain friends) for various reasons. What happens on the day the changes are implemented and that person decided not to pay. What happens if that person hasn't' checked their FB in two months. No, I have to say that would be a nail in the coffin move just from the initial outrage alone. Not to mention their potential competition would seize that opportunity in a minute. I can totally imagine Google getting in the game at that point and you pretty much know once that happens it's over for FB. Google actually knows how to go about taking the world over in a way that somehow doesn't SEEM too intrusive. Go figure…

I agree that FB is going in the wrong direction here and they need to fix this. I like the idea of paying not to have ads show up on your page. Based on their apparent business model however I don't think that would work for them as their users (or products) are probably more valuable to advertisers without that type of service. Being able to offer 400 mil users has much more profit potential than 300 mil with the potential of the #'s dwindling even further.

The scary thing is I think the direction they're going in know I think is also evil genius. If they are not stopped immediately at some point it will be too late. They would have too much information, they would have made too many inroads and we'd be too dependent on them to give them up. Think GOOGLE.

At this point it would just be insulting to do that. Facebook would literally be destroying people's pages who decided not to upgrade or putting them totally on blast. You have to remember those “premium” services you talk about are all free now and people have very sensitive information on their page that they put up and hide from some (the world and even certain friends) for various reasons. What happens on the day the changes are implemented and that person decided not to pay. What happens if that person hasn't' checked their FB in two months. No, I have to say that would be a nail in the coffin move just from the initial outrage alone. Not to mention their potential competition would seize that opportunity in a minute. I can totally imagine Google getting in the game at that point and you pretty much know once that happens it's over for FB. Google actually knows how to go about taking the world over in a way that somehow doesn't SEEM too intrusive. Go figure…

I agree that FB is going in the wrong direction here and they need to fix this. I like the idea of paying not to have ads show up on your page. Based on their apparent business model however I don't think that would work for them as their users (or products) are probably more valuable to advertisers without that type of service. Being able to offer 400 mil users has much more profit potential than 300 mil with the potential of the #'s dwindling even further.

The scary thing is I think the direction they're going in know I think is also evil genius. If they are not stopped immediately at some point it will be too late. They would have too much information, they would have made too many inroads and we'd be too dependent on them to give them up. Think GOOGLE.