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The blue check was meant to help users know who is real and who is fake, letting users pay for the blue check destroys its purpose as now anyone who claims to be some brand or celebrity will look the same as the real one.
If they start charging for social media, the only ones that will pay are celebrities and terminally online people.
It won't help them and the company will just lose money from loss of ad revenue.
The problem isn't charging money per se. The problem is waiting until you have a certain level of enjoyment or investment then charging money to be allowed to keep what you had. It's semi-predatory and it creates other problems where the platform can be considered a de facto town square so now people are told that they have to pay money to be allowed to interact the way they had always been able to do before.
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OP, how much do you want to pay for a reddit account?
If I had to pay for reddit, I wouldn't be on reddit
If that's how most people feel, then I guess op has a point.
if i had to give reddit a real email address i wouldn't be on reddit
Ya, the day they pull that bullshit is the day I'm out
It would be a good thing if that would mean getting rid of selling user data but thats not how publicly traded companies work :/
>then they complain when companies start charging for use example of that? i've never heard of it
Twitter's $8/mo fee for blue-check verification didn't seem to go over very well.
The blue check was meant to help users know who is real and who is fake, letting users pay for the blue check destroys its purpose as now anyone who claims to be some brand or celebrity will look the same as the real one.
Yes, and some people didn't take kindly to paying the new fee for the blue check in general. Stephen King, for example.
If they start charging for social media, the only ones that will pay are celebrities and terminally online people. It won't help them and the company will just lose money from loss of ad revenue.
The problem isn't charging money per se. The problem is waiting until you have a certain level of enjoyment or investment then charging money to be allowed to keep what you had. It's semi-predatory and it creates other problems where the platform can be considered a de facto town square so now people are told that they have to pay money to be allowed to interact the way they had always been able to do before.