After Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress and also said "there will certainly always be a variation of Facebook that is totally free," lots of people have been asking us if the social media sites platform will begin charging customers to be on the site.
The confusion originates from an old Facebook message that is recirculating once again after Zuckerberg showed up prior to Congress.
Facebook Charging Fees
In the message from "Mark the Supervisor of Facebook", it claims utilizing Facebook will set you back people money. The message assures a totally free Facebook if you send out the message to 18 various people. It's a typical chain letter technique that promises something if you share it with a certain amount of people you know.
" This 'Message from Facebook' is entirely false," said Emily Dean, a social networks professional. "This has been flowing for a number of years around Facebook and also it's most likely bubble up to the surface area now due to the fact that Mark Zuckerberg has actually been indicating regarding a few of the important things that have actually happened on Facebook lately."
In the future throughout the testimony, Zuckerberg admitted that some have recommended a paid variation of the internet site but he stated that "the ads design is the right one for us."
"If it specifies where users do not want to see advertisements on Facebook there can possibly be a version that has price connected with it, but he was really clear in stating there will certainly always be a totally free version. So I would not bother with obtaining kicked out of Facebook rather yet," Dean stated.
Dean described that if you still had doubts you might go to Facebook's aid web page to discover even more info.
