This shouldn’t be worth a read for many out there who have a Fan count of over a few million already or have friends that follow you blindly anywhere. However Facebook is a place where you will find a countless really innocent people who will believe you readily even if you came up with the most insane idea. I have been overwhelmed by fan pages that started barely a month back and have outgrown the subscribers of many major blogs combined. Surprising isn’t it, to me it is.

I have gulped down a large number of such groups on Facebook for they did really have some plan and purpose, but there have been some that just appear so insane that their creators need to be put in some Facebook Asylum. Now I am not being anti-people or anti-freedom of speech, but seriously it gets annoying when you get notified of joining a fan page that is being made with a purpose to amass 1,00,000 users to stop Facebook from going over to a paid model or something of the sort. More importantly there is so much duplication all across the platform and the numbers keep growing, are people really thinking that the team running Facebook actually plans to go over to a paid format or something of the sort? I don’t think so it will.

Let me just clear this out for all those people who are exploited and made to join groups and spread the spamming hysteria all across the social network. The paid model isn’t coming along for many reasons, some of the major reasons why this wont happen are:

• The social network is bound to generate almost a billion dollars this year. It has not yet charged a single penny for any one to signup.
• If money is an issue for Facebook, it can place all those countless ads from ad platforms, including Google AdSense to crunch in some cash to at least its team to sustain itself.
• It can sell ads on its sites for giants like Cisco, Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft and God knows how many brands more to make what users can generate by paying for it.

Those are just three major ways it can generate the money which is something it doesn’t want at the moment and for times to come. So if you still think that Facebook is definitely going to charge for using the platform, it’s only happening if Mark Zuckerberg is on the roadside with the rest of the staff singing songs on Facebook and its days of glory, which might only happen if the Mayan prediction comes true.

[Image with thanks]

Comments