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Facebook Announces $12/Month 'Meta Verified' Subscription Service

Abazigal said:
I believe Facebook averaged almost 3 billion active users last year.
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That would be about 7 out of 10 active internet users in the world. Impossible, especially when young people have been abandoning it.

Always doubt these numbers from all the platforms.

There are tons of duplicate, disposable and fake (as in used for malicious reasons) accounts on these platforms and it is too much work for them to do an accurate accounting. They would prefer to lie to investors.
 
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Funny stuff. Just a couple of months ago "the internet" (a dozen Twitter users) was "losing their minds" over Teslaman charging for a blue checkmark and laying off thousands of employees. Now, just about every other major social media company is following suit, but it's gonna get swept under the rug after a day or two.
 
Zuckerberg described Meta Verified as a subscription that lets individuals verify an account with a government ID, get a blue badge, and get "extra impersonation protection" against accounts that are "claiming to be you." It also comes with "direct access to customer support, exclusive stickers, and a news release describing the feature says that it will include "access to increased visibility and reach."

So a user uploads their drivers license. Does Facebook verify the ID by checking with the local DMV or just see how good it looks?
 
normwood said:
If it got rid of the constant ads and spam I might consider it at $5/month. For a social media ego boost? Not hardly.
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No chance ad's are going away. Even more personalized ad's when you are Meta verified! Zuck going to make you his *****.
 
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With the insane amount of verification Facebook requires, now they want you to pay so others can see you have been verified? Doesn't make sense, but will be fun seeing Facebook slowly revolve downwards into the drain to obscurity right behind Netflix à la Blockbuster and Gamestop. How is the whole metaverse thing panning out?
 
Black Magic said:
Elon proved there was a market to tap into where some folks would pay a subscription fee for a cosmetic blue check. While 90% of folks would laugh at the idea, 10% are reaching for their wallets. That's a lot of money to leave on the table when it takes minimal effort to implement basically an icon in your app! Snapchat and others will follow suit.

FaceBook is still dying a slow death as most younger folks moved on to other platforms.
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I can see it working on Instagram but not on Facebook, not having the subscription cover all Meta products is a bit silly though ... I can't imagine there are many people that will do both.
 
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breather said:
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  • Increased visibility and reach with prominence in some areas of the platform- like search, comments and recommendations.
Paying for visibility? This is just stupid.

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It will cost you $12.01 a month to get searches not biased by paid prominence...
 
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I haven't been on faceb--k/M-ta in over 3 years. Not patronizing a platform that makes $$$ selling tools to monitor the employees of a company on the platform.
ZuckF--k in my opinion. I am not a dumb zombie/idiot.
 
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So besides the fact that Facebook is using people's data, now they want to charge them and funny thing: in order to be "verified" by them, guess what? You need to show your ID. So then they will have all. Your data, ID and your money. Good plan.It's good thing that some of us were born before Facebook and we can live without it.
 
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All social media should be paid services, mainly because it would also kill a lot of the bots and trolls. Even better would be forcing everyone to have a universal validated digital ID so everyone has to show their face just like in the real world. The world would immediately benefit from less social media.

We’ve been trained that things on the internet are free. We need to move away from that kind of thinking. It’s how we got to the current state of the internet and social discord.
 
breather said:
  • Increased visibility and reach with prominence in some areas of the platform- like search, comments and recommendations.
Paying for visibility? This is just stupid.
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“Paying for visibility” has been around forever. It’s called Advertising. Just like an advertiser pays to put their ad post in your timeline, this has a similar result. What’s evolving is the concept of paid influencing which isn’t necessarily tied to a specific product or service. By paying for visibility, you could increase the reach of certain political viewpoints or cultural ideas.

Reflect upon the adage: if you are not paying for a product, you ARE the product.

Also, I thought it was “funny” when I had to log in here to reply (I usually am logged out) and was greeted with the option to login via Facebook or Twitter.

Your entire online persona is tracked and collated, whether you are logged in or not, whether you are “verified” or not, and whether you like it or not.

And now, even if you do “pay for the product” you are in fact STILL the product. You’ve even increased your value (to the datalords) by verifying your identity. The fact that people are paying to do this is just a good measurement of the insanity.

As far as I’m concerned, Mark and the rest of Meta, and its users can get Zucked. I left FB years ago.

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Colpeas said:
Besides, ID verification should be mandatory for all users IMHO. Perhaps an unpopular opinion but hear me out: marketplace. Every shmok seems to be running schemes under a false name, so if Meta is any serious about safety or security, verification of users is bare minimum that they should’ve started requiring ages ago.
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Facebook does serve a purpose for some people so I do not think it is going away. Neither is Twitter. Unfortunately, in the early days of the internet, VC's and the entrepreneurs drooled over monetizing these platforms through advertising and neglected for far too long what would happen when people figured out how to use it to rip people off and harm them. In fact, the Section 230 lobby was funded by these platforms specifically to enact protections for these firms to avoid accountability for the harm done by their users. The writing is on the wall, Section 230 will either be amended or SCOTUS will water it down. Musk was the first to publicly admit, through his actions, he see's this coming. Zuckerburg isn't stupid and he see's the same thing as well. These guys are preparing their firms for the consequences of the coming change and the flood gates to litigation will be opened. The only way left to avoid paying huge sums of money in litigation settlements will be to identify the users that post the harmful content so that they can facilitate holding the harmful content providers responsible. This is likely the only mechanism that will remain in Section 230 after the amendments.

So, identification is here to stay and I suspect soon no one will be able to obtain an account with any of these services without verifying their identity. Moreover, users are going to be held accountable for what they say and do online within these platforms. That is exactly how it should be.

djphat2000 said:
Also, $.99 per month for anyone that wants to subscribe without Ad's.
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sychox51 said:
So do you still have to see the ads? Wtf is the point of paying $12 a month and still seeing ads? If it would remove the ads, I’d honestly consider it cuz the ads on both are just horrendous.
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svish said:
$12/$15 is too high for a verified Facebook account.
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The challenge of course is if these platforms can generate enough revenue through subscription to keep the business going? When they transition to a subscription model where people can opt out of ads, the ad revenue will crater.

If 75% of accounts are fake, then the 3 Billion number bandied about suggests FB may actually have 750 million users. A subscription fee of $0.99 per month would generate only $750M per month of revenue. Not sure, but I suspect they couldn't keep their servers running let alone pay their staff. Radical changes at Facebook and Twitter will be required to resize these organizations to fit the resulting revenue model.

smetvid said:
Facebook started off as a nice way to keep connected with people and now it's just a giant cluster of people arguing and making fun of each other. Its a cesspool of disfunction and is only going to get worse as Facebook only cares about the paid accounts.
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Indeed, anonymity is the root dysfunction that has caused this breakdown in the social media platforms. People feel safe yelling at others when there is no consequence for bad behaviour.
 
I'm only on Facebook to track a friend's vacation, and to ensure no one else sets up a business page for my company. Other than that; I'm not on Facebook.

This idea MZ has: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No.
 
Fat_Guy said:
They screamed and raged when Musk started it on Twitter. Then when things died down you get it on Facebook and Instagram…


Next up: TikTok…

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They screamed and raged and did not do it. In fact "they" left Twitter. Nothing has "died down." It's still a cesspool of hatred.
 
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