Ah, the old "if even of people pay for it, we're golden!" thing.
I'm going to go sell rocks at a concert for $1m a pop. The concert is 100,000 people, if even 0.01% pays for them, I'm rich!
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#12Honestly, the idea of a facebook subscription is not a new idea, nor is it a feasible idea.
It is something people have discussed on HN about for years now.
Not to mention $10 a month is unrealistic in every developing country where roughly 40% of facebooks users are based (brazil, india, indonesia ...)
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#13I'm shocked Biz Stone made this blog post. His solution is basically to "lose the ads and maybe some special features too" for 10 bucks a month. There is no way that is good enough.
Perhaps what he is really getting at is that Facebook should consider some type of Reddit Gold feature? Where users gain access to beta features first and various perks.
Now that, would be interesting.
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#14> he needs to use [Facebook] to communicate with his new co-workers Who uses Facebook for internal company communication?
A lot of people, as far as I know. Private groups are still a direct competitor for the likes of Podio and Yammer, as ridiculous or stupid this may sound...
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#15I dont know why everyone is lamenting its the worst idea ever.
Personally, I wouldn't pay 10$, but 5$ I would. No ads, with an extra feature, such as, voice to phone number communication.
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#16Ah, the old "if even of people pay for it, we're golden!" thing. I'm going to go sell rocks at a concert for $1m a pop. The concert is 100,000 people, if even 0.01% pays for them, I'm rich!
Talk about a great analogy. Selling rocks vs a Subscription model to the biggest social network on the planet.
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#17Shut up and take my money!
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#18Ads don't bother me that much, really. Between AdBlock and general desensitization to them, they're pretty easy to ignore.
But how much can I pay to never see another update about one of my friends playing any kind of game or app or quiz; to automatically reject and hide any invites to any game or app or quiz; to never get an Event invite ever again, and to never see Upcoming Events in my sidebar; to never see another friend suggestion or Pages You Might Like or Games You Might Like or Music Pages You Might Like; to make my newsfeed show me everything from everyone I choose to view there, in chronological order always, not just what the Computer In The Sky thinks I want to see when I want to see it; to make it stop asking me to dig through my contacts for more friend suggestions?
And if all of those things are possible now, how much can I pay for a simple one-page settings page so I can actually make it happen?
Maybe not $120/yr, but if there were definite improvements to my user experience above and beyond just taking out ads, I'd think about it.
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#19Ah, the old "if even of people pay for it, we're golden!" thing. I'm going to go sell rocks at a concert for $1m a pop. The concert is 100,000 people, if even 0.01% pays for them, I'm rich!
Selling rocks vs subscription model for one of the biggest companies in the world. Not sure that's an entirely sensible analogy!
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#20> he needs to use [Facebook] to communicate with his new co-workers Who uses Facebook for internal company communication?
Actually, Facebook (the company) does a remarkable amount of internal company communication using it.