Facebook fees for 'sponsoring posts'...a form of censorship?

[Gimpy]

This article discusses the 'promote' buttons that are showing up around Facebook. It charges you money to promote
a post to the top of newsfeeds, and is having a heavy impact on those who use FB to blog and do small business.

The fee to promote this article from my FB page? Seven dollars, USD...for a single article. I think this is a kind of
censorship to silence those small businesses and blogggers that may be 'inconvenient'.


http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back

 

[Rich]

The fee to promote this article from my FB page? Seven dollars, USD...for a single article. I think this is a kind of
censorship to silence those small businesses and blogggers that may be 'inconvenient'.

It may that that effect but I think the motivation is simply FB desperately trying to find ways to monetize the social network that isn't worth the electrons it's mobilising.

 

[Scottie]

I think it's just a sign of the times. Rampant greed. Squeeze everybody for everything they're worth.

Well, I'm thinking that's not really going to work out very well for them in the end...

The fastest way for FB to lose all of their loyal followers is for the "next big thing" to come along. Remember MySpace? Neither do I...

The second fastest way is to piss people off. And, since they're already pissed off about bigger world problems - but also in denial - that anger has to go somewhere. Facebook is a "safe" place for them to (mis)direct their anger.

Looks like Google+ will be the next star.

 

[Bar Kochba]

Google+ sucks....

so far.

LOL

 

[whitecoast]

Google+ sucks....

so far.

LOL

Really, I think it's just the lack of active community on there that's the biggest obstacle for G+. It's really the people and interaction that makes or breaks the network. Most of life is like that, OSIT.