Facebook has long splashed the banner message, “It’s free and always will be,” across its homepage.
While Facebook has remained free to use, the company continues to experiment with ways to charge for premium features.
Today Facebook said it is testing a feature that lets members send messages to those outside their “friends” circle for $1 per message.
Currently, Facebook routes messages from non-friends to a user’s often-missed “Other” folder, rather than the Inbox.
This feature would display the message directly in a user’s Inbox. It would only be limited to individuals — so a brand like Coca-Cola cou ldn’t spam a bunch of inboxes. Facebook says it’s testing it out to a small group of users in the U.S., and the recipients can only receive one message in this fashion per week.
Facebook also recently rolled out a feature that will let individuals promote announcements to a larger group of friends for a fee of $7 per post. When we asked our readers whether they would pay for this, 96% said no.
So readers, would you pay $1 to send messages to non-friends? Let us know why or why not.
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