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Facebook is to charge up to £10 to send some messages, raising fears that users will soon be hit with a raft of new fees.
Facebook is to charge users up to £10 a time to contact people outside of their friends' network. The social networking site is likely to charge between 70p and £10 to message people who are not "friends" - with the top price reserved for contacting celebrities. Facebook says it is introducing the payments to prevent spam being sent to users of the network. However, some analysts fear that it marks the start of what will become a more entrenched payment scheme for the social media site. At present, users can message anyone who uses the website for free. However, messages to non-friends go to the "other" email box and are treated as spam. But these latest changes will allow users to pay to prioritise their emails, sending them directly to the main inbox of their prospective friends....Read more here
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