The rumor that Facebook will start charging users to access the website is likely to come true. According to National Report, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that. The social media giant will start charging members $2.99 a month. “We thought long and hard about this decision, but at the end of the day, we had no choice but to add this monthly fee. “If we don’t do something about our rising costs now, Facebook could face an unrecoverable financial burden and become obsolete,” Zuckerberg said.
The first waves of public outrage were changed with convincing arguments of experts who took a sober look at the issue. First of all, this is excellent news for investors.
“As of August this year, Facebook had a total of 1.317 billion users. If just 75% of those members pay the new monthly service fee of $3, that will mean an annual influx of cash totaling roughly $36 billion. That’s not just an increase in profits of a few dollars, that’s a game changer right there,” Wall Street analyst Dale Sackrider said.
However, it should be noted that National Report is a news and political satire web publication which may use unreal names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. That is why the mainstream media is in no hurry to repost this news. Reporters even posted an instruction on how to avoid the account deleting and not to pay the fee. Yet, many users expressed the willingness to pay. And if the majority agrees, why not do as they wish.
