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Facebook Announces $12/Month 'Meta Verified' Subscription Service
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No Google subscriptions for me. No Apple subs for me. And no Facebook/Meta subs for me either. However, all for different reasons 
Free speech is not suspending accounts of journalists you don’t like because they ask the wrong questions. It is the opposite.
You have enough info on everyone to figure that out yourself. LOL, no thanks Facebook! Plus, more expensive than Twitter? LOL, no.
Creators who pay for this view Facebook and Instagram as critical parts of how they generate income. One of the brands I work for spent tens of thousands of dollars on advertising via FB and IG but we never got access to a real person. Issues come up, things don't work like they should and you have nobody to speak with. When they didn't have the good sense to assign ad accounts to a rep and instead leave it to some algorithm that refused to verify our brand account despite us fulfilling all the requirements and worse, having fake accounts tricking our customers – the entire point of verified brand accounts – we took our money elsewhere.
Getting verified for $12.99/month and access to a human is a bargain. The bad news for Zuckerberg is that we've settled our ad budget somewhere else where we're happy and they'll never get the tens of thousands they were getting before. Just $12.99.
On closing, this really isn't for regular users. Why would you want to spend an ongoing monthly fee on a site you just visit to scroll through cat videos? This is for accounts that maintain a business presence, whether for retail, marketing or simply a public persona for a personal brand that generates revenue elsewhere.
So what "common account issues" only affect accounts that want to maintain a business presence? You seem to be making distinctions that not even Facebook has made.
Impersonation is the most straightforward. Businesses or individuals with a large following are targets for fake accounts looking to rack up followers and sell the account. They're also used for scamming customers. You'd think that this would be straightforward to get support on and have impersonators banned but you have no access to a human and the report form is often missing options while the algorithm used to determine if they're fake often fails to recognize it.
Running sponsored posts brings on a series of issues as well. From bugs running the post to wrong analytics during the run period, which brands depend on to determine if the ad is performing and requires tweaks, early cancellation or even adding budget. Meta loses so much money on this because advertisers would've added budget to a performing ad, but don't because the analytics blank out when putting in more money would've made a difference – you'd think it'd be a priority. Ads sometimes don't display in the correct format and uploading content periodically fails to upload for no apparent reason.
These have been running issues for years. You'd think that a company that relies on advertising revenue would have made these a priority. This is why Google is still advertising king. They support advertisers big and small with human help and are constantly developing solutions and patching bugs. I spotted an issue in a Google ad in our first week. One mention to our human support rep and it was fixed that day.
If $12.99 is all it takes to get a human support rep at Meta, then it's a bargain. They may not fix all of these issues but it's incredibly frustrating to be experiencing the issues brands experience without any way to address the problem. That alone is worth it.
Zucks just announced his own AI.
It has more personality than him.
That’s not hard though. I have read Ikea manuals with more personality than Mark Zuckerberg.
It has more personality than him.
That’s not hard though. I have read Ikea manuals with more personality than Mark Zuckerberg.
I do not use the free version so I see no value in paying for this intrusive data sharing product.