I found this query on facebook http://apps.facebook.com/votetouseit/?ref=mf, so what it means? Will facebook become paid or no? When will it be? Any suggestions or opinions?
i don't think they will ever charge to use facebook. the younger users and the users short of money will just move elsewhere. thats just my opinion..
It's the biggest BS rumor that has been going around for years...FB already stated that they have no plans of charging.
I can't even find this page.. Perhaps it was just an external application of poll or something similar which got removed.
if you mean the ?ref=mf part. It's just facebook system to keep track on referring pages to maximize their suggestion result (I mean friend suggestions and apps suggestions that appear on the sidebar). Try to click the logo and you'll get ?ref=logo, and so on.
Facebook should stay free and the majority of users are around the age where a small proportion have credit cards. If they were to make it paid, there would be a major loss of users. Facebook only charges for ads, and some games.
I believe they will and have adopted the Google model of supplied value to customers and letting the advertisers bring in their revenue
Facebook won't become a paid network because it's a network whose global popularity is growing rapidly and they earn a lot cash from advertisements. Maybe there will be some restrictions for applications (no ads in 'em or something like that) so that the number of Facebook's ad spaces will rise. But never ever they're going to convince the audience to purchase for using Facebook.
There is no any sense in making Facebook paid - the amount of its users will decrease neck and crop! So, there is no profit for Facebook at all! Its competitors like Twitter will immediately outstrip Facebook in this case!
I think its never gonna be paid as many competing social networks are free so how could they charge us. Its just a rumor.