Social Media May Be Costly In The Future

I don't think there is anyone that has not heard about Facebook, one way or another. Even if you do not use the services that Facebook provides you are still aware of what it is and how much money they are making now that they have taken the company public. For the past few weeks many have been talking about these individuals who make the Facebook venture so successful, and the killing they are making on a webpage that keeps people connected.

If you are someone that is constantly on your Facebook page, checking statuses and seeing what all your friends and family are up to, then you are most likely seen the post about how the social media site will begin charging for their services. Many have even stated that if Facebook starts to charge for their services they will cancel their account and find a new way to stay connected with family and friends. Since the company has gone public many are beginning to think more and more about whether they are going to start charging people to stay connected.

As our culture changes, social media seems to be in the forefront of these changes. Social media is, for many, the sole means of communicating with family and friends, making plans to get together with others or keep current on what is going on in the world. Facebook is the largest and most popular of all these sites, world wide. People even use Facebook from their mobile devices, iPhones, cell phones and more, to stay in connect, play games and stay up to date on events, throughout their entire day.

Along many feel that Facebook will lose a great deal of users should they start to charge, there are still many that will end up paying for the use, as long as it is a reasonable fee that Facebook is charging. What these individuals are not aware of is that Facebook is already making a ton of money with advertising. Even though users are utilizing the service for free, companies are paying great amounts of money to advertise their business on the pages of Facebook.

When it comes to makigng use of the internet, more people use their broadband connections to get on social media sites then just about anything else on the web. Our society pays more for entertainment than just about any other aspect of life, supporting the fact that if people had to pay to access a website such as Facebook that more of them probably would pay to keep this service that they have grown to love then are willing to admit it.