Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Want Famous on Facebook?Pay $ 2



New Zealand - Facebook is increasingly commercial. Social networking is developing a paid feature that can make our posts are always popular because it kept sticking at the top of the posts by our Facebook friends to another.

To make it the most popular posts, Facebook will charge USD 2  for each posting. As quoted by TechCrunch, about features, named the 'highlights' of this.

Step for monetize the social networking potential that was deliberately made ​​up to attract potential investors ahead of its first stock offering (initial public offering / IPO) on 18 May.

Facebook realized only 12% of my friends on Facebook who pay attention to regular status updates. Thus arose the idea was to create a special room paid for anyone who wants any of his post for a headline, of course with a fee.

This feature alone is still in trial and is still free. But later, by paying USD 2 each time the post, then post that will appear highlighted at the top of the news feed,and remained visible for a long time in all the main pages of his friends.

This new feature suddenly just invited a lot of criticism because it is considered annoying. "At Facebook, which we consider only the quality of the actual content of messages, rather than how deep your wallet," quipped Josh Constine of TechCrunch.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Facebook Buy Instagram Since Feel Threatened



Some time ago a surprisingly founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquisition of Instagram with the number $ 1 billion. This is obviously acontroversial step.

The reason, very large numbers to buy companies that do not generate profits raises the pros and cons. This has to be questioned by the board of directors of Facebook.

Zuckerberg certainly has its own reasons why he finally made ​​the decision.According to the 27-year-old billionaire, the reason is not because he saw Instagram harmful to the company.

As quoted from the Telegraph, Friday (05/11/2012), the growth of data belonging to a rapid Instagram has reached the point of a serious threat to Facebook.

Moreover, based on the fact, that Instagram has reached the number of users to 40million in just one platform, in a short time. 

Hundreds of prospective investors who are hearing this Zuckeberg what might be done to understand the social networking giants. Moreover Zuckerbeg assured,this is a step acquisition of long-term plan and vision for the future.