I can pay facebook $12.20 to force my friends to see my post. It's called highlight.

[Dags90]

I can see Facebook making money off of this. And honestly I don't really mind...but $12.20? Seriously? That is batshit insane. They would make a hell of a lot more charging like $0.99. Then again having more people willing to do it would sort of negate the effect, but damn. Anything more than $10 is fifty miles passed crazytown.

My guess is that it's primarily for corporate Facebook Pages and the like. $12 is nothing to an advertising agent of a national product, or a celebrity who just had a book go on sale.

 

[Lilani]

My guess is that it's primarily for corporate Facebook Pages and the like. $12 is nothing to an advertising agent of a national product, or a celebrity who just had a book go on sale.

Ew, even better. Well as long as it doesn't keep me from manually hiding the things my news feed, let them pay what they want.

 

[lord.jeff]

Oh no a company is testing out an idea to help them make money, how dare that business try to make money, besides it's probably more meant for people who have something to gain from posting like businesses or charities that want to advertise.

 

[CrystalShadow]

You think this is because [a href=https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1338580800000&chddm=3910&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:FB&ntsp=0]there doing so well on the stock market[/a]?

Holy balls, what happened?!

From what I vaguely remember hearing on the radio a couple weeks back, they don't actually have a system of making money. The adverts apparently don't give them much at all.

I don't get it either. I either missed something or they are the most colossal idiots the world has ever seen.

It seems a common problem with web services. The problem is, people come up with some interesting idea, then turn it into a 'business'. Except, as interesting and/or useful as the idea itself is (not saying facebook is either, but let's leave that for another discussion), these services frequently aren't designed very well from a commercial perspective.

Or rather, they're great at what they do, but not so great at bringing in money.

The people that made twitter for instance still haven't figured out how to make any money from it at all.

Facebook meanwhile has hundreds of millions of members, and still can't seem to make a decent revenue stream? It makes you wonder...

At least the 'free to play' games model works quite well. That's built around the idea that only about 1 in 100 players will ever pay you anything, but those that do will earn you more than enough to cover the cost of the other 99 'free' players.

 

[SystemZero]

Holy shit! You mean a large business actually broke a promise they made earlier? That's absurd! Large businesses have more than proven that they take all their promises seriously!

If you don't get that that's sarcasm, you're probably desperately waiting for highlight to come out so you can annoy the hell out of everyone and you sir, are part of the problem.

 

[Magnum700]

I don't get it, can't everyone see it anyway?

I'm pretty sure it forces the post to the top of their friends news feed. This means even if you aren't subscribed to them you will see the post. This could be very useful to people with 1000's of friends or subscribers.

Ugh, so people like Brandon Cyrus, Diggy Simmons and Kylo Cho then..

These people frustrate me. Each time I try to block them it says that the blocking system is 'overloaded'. Bullshit! I can block other people but not them. It took atleast 50 tries to finally block Diggy Simmons but when you block one, five more appear from no where. I don't guy why my friends 'like' the stupid shit that gets posted.

 

[DPunch4]

Yeap, they've definitely gone loopy now. Who the heck would even pay for tha-

P.S What the hell is up with your facebook profile picture?

It's my face being raped by a blow-up doll. Crazy night

Wait what? Forget the Highlight thing, I wanna hear this story instead. :0

Me and a few friends made our way to Sydney to celebrate a friends 18th. Went to a big sex store and they bought a blow-up doll. We opened it up after a night of partying(and seeing a guy do the splits on the roof), took a bunch of horrible rapey photos with everyone and some inanimate objects.

 

[w00tage]

Apparently I'm part of a test group for this new highlight crap. Here's what it looks like:

Is this anything other then money grabbing? Would you ever need this?
God damn it facebook...

I see no flaws with this plan. It has my blessing.


Mainly because I've always seen the wolf under the sheep's clothing, and I want everyone else to see it too.

 

[Nooners]

The only reason I would use it would be to shamelessly promote my show, which I can simply do here instead.

http://www.modsaysnoadvertising.youtube.com.au.whut/

See? Same result, I look equally desperate, and it was free!
(Please don't kill me!)

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I need to get at these for free.

I want to spam 500 highlight messages and make sure no one on my friends list sees anything but those for 24 hours. Chaos would ensue.

At those prices that would cost you 6100 dollars. LOL

I accidentally tried this highlight thing or whatever it was called, and now my home page looks like ass and i can not revert to the old style.
Reminds me of youtube.

 

[lacktheknack]

You think this is because [a href=https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1338580800000&chddm=3910&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:FB&ntsp=0]there doing so well on the stock market[/a]?

Holy balls, what happened?!

From what I vaguely remember hearing on the radio a couple weeks back, they don't actually have a system of making money. The adverts apparently don't give them much at all.

I don't get it either. I either missed something or they are the most colossal idiots the world has ever seen.

Yeah, but... that plummet is in the LAST TWO WEEKS.

I dun geddit. ;_;

 

[geK0]

$12 seems a little steep; but I guess if you're trying to promote a fundraiser or something, it could be good. We all know that there are going to be a handful of "My boyfriend is a dick, so I broke up with him!" posts though... those are annoying enough without being notified of them.

I doubt there will be many people using this though.

 

[anthony87]

Ah facebook, it keeps finding new reasons for me to defriend people

FB:"3 friends like Dane Cook"
Me:Well I now have 3 less friends

Could be worse.

They could like Jamie Kennedy...

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't have Facebook, but I have to wonder who'd be dumb enough to actually pay for this kind of crap. ...not that it'd surprise me to learn that there are people dumb enough to pay for this kind of crap.

 

[imnot]

Apparently I'm part of a test group for this new highlight crap. Here's what it looks like:

Is this anything other then money grabbing? Would you ever need this?
God damn it facebook...

Wha, whats going on in your photo?
It looks like a doll is stabbing you in the face.

With it's penis...

OT: Hopefuly this is a government thing and anyone who uses it will be killed.

 

[DPunch4]

Wha, whats going on in your photo?
It looks like a doll is stabbing you in the face.

With it's penis...

Indeed. I'm also whimpering D':

 

[llamastorm.games]

I dont see why such a feature needs making available to average Joe's.
No one has anything worth saying so much that they will pay $12 to make sure everyone sees.

However from an advertisers point of few i think it makes more sense.
Large company with huge FB presence, are releasing new product or game publisher announcing game to fans, letting many hundreds of thousand or even millions of people see it quickly seems a good thing to me. They can pay to push a message out so that every person who has liked them will see it. Seems an effective way to advertise, also it would only affect you if joined to that particular page or group, which if you were already it shouldnt anger you that much if you get notifications like that from them.