{"id":7349,"date":"2013-01-12T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T04:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2013-01-12T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T04:45:21","slug":"facebook-now-lets-anyone-message-you-at-no-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/01\/facebook-now-lets-anyone-message-you-at-no-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Now Lets Anyone Message You At No Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook has once again changed its privacy settings, allowing anyone<\/i> to message you, where previously you could limit who could message you. It was a great mechanism that stopped randoms from sending you messages.<\/p>\n

I was greeted with the following “information” on my account this afternoon.<\/p>\n

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For some time, Facebook has been toying with the idea of allowing companies to message your, for a price. They have even been testing such a feature<\/a> for US-based users.<\/p>\n

Such a feature would have allowed advertisers to pay to send you messages, which would be prominently placed in your inbox.<\/p>\n

It now seems they have dropped the whole concept, and will simply allow messages to be sent for nothing. Unless you are a defined VIP, who you can message for a price.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the advertisers wanted a way into your inbox, but didn’t want to pay – and Facebook appear to have caved.<\/p>\n

Today it became known that you can message founder Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> if you cough up $100.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I’d love to nominate the price for people to message me. I suggest $1,000,000 as a nice round number.<\/p>\n

If they like, Facebook can even have 99.9% of that amount from anyone who pays it, because I bet they wouldn’t get anything from people trying to message me at that price.<\/p>\n

But that’s okay – everyone can message me for nothing anyway.<\/p>\n

Apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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