Old Dogs, New Tricks encourages small business owners, for whom the vast majority of Americans daily work, as they adapt and succeed in an environment that includes the opportunity of Social Media.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Facebook Will Never Charge A Subscription Fee

IT IS OFFICIAL. IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON, IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY!!!!!!

Have you seen this announcement on your Facebook News Feed?  Or a similar one?  If you checked the "official" news-breaking story out on Snopes.com, you would see that this is just another hoax about Facebook charging user fees.  There have been a number of similar hoaxes through the past several years. 

The reality is that Facebook would be crazy to charge a user fee.  Like Steve Job and Apple with the music industry beforehand, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are well on their way to rethinking and changing entire industries.  Scary truth is, they don't need your subscription fee to participate in Facebook because, in the brave new world of Facebook, you'll willingly pay them to listen to music, view TV and movies, read books and newspapers, etc etc etc.

Just waiting for them to wash and iron my clothes......and chew my food for me.......and...

(there's an unbelievable ton of stuff going on here, pay attention to the impact of social media on your business and life)

Thanks for sharing 68 seconds of your day,
Smitty 

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