UK: Facebook now charges you for messages sent to celebrities and people you aren't friends with

[marmar]

(Independent UK) Facebook has started charging UK users up to £10 to send messages to celebrities and people they aren't friends with.

The social networking giant says the moves are to stop users being bombarded with messages from strangers.

Facebookers can still communicate with friends and people with whom they share mutual friends for free.

Those who want to contact non-friends can now either pay a fee of around 71p to send the message directly to a person’s inbox along with an automatic alert, or send the message for free to a less visible folder. Many Facebook users do not even know this other folder exists. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facebook-now-charges-you-for-messages-sent-to-celebrities-and-people-you-arent-friends-with-8563299.html

[xchrom]

1. geeez...anything for a buck. nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. Do you think that includes

prepositions ?

[Dash87]

3. I wonder if this might be because of spam too?

I haven't used Facebook in a while, but it seems like there's no incentive not to, for instance, use a bot to spam free advertising.