No I would not. It's very nice to use but I'm not going to pay for it.

no why start charging now it has always been free

Advertisement all over the page now should pay shmuckerburgs bills.

No way. It is free now. I just cancelled my account.

"The company says charging for messages could help discourage spammers,"

Who are they trying to kid? They just want more money because their stock went down the tubes.

i wouldnt pay just to keep my account..
if people pay, people will slowly stop usin facebook, & facebook will be lookin like MySpace,
Im Just Sayin.'

It's only a fee if you message someone who ISN'T on your friends list. Interesting idea to discourage fake accounts spamming ads to thousands of random people, but its effectiveness remains to be seen.

It's only a fee if you message someone who ISN'T on your friends list. Interesting idea to discourage fake accounts spamming ads to thousands of random people, but its effectiveness remains to be seen.

Nope. Facebook is pretty cool, however I won't pay for something that has been free for years. We managed to live without it for centuries I believe we can go on for more centuries without it. Charging a dollar to send messages to non FB folks? Really? Doesn't make sense? This will NOT deter spamming. Spamming is here to stay. They will find a way around it. If FB ceased to exist right now it wouldn't bother me.

No. It's only an additional avenue to contact friends. Why pay? I would just text,call,email or.....go back in time and actually mail a letter.

No way. FB will be replaced anyway in the next 2 years by the next latest online fad. Remember myspace?

FB is a nice distraction but I will only use it for free!

I don't understand where our mentality of getting everything for free comes from. Someone created a product, that allows me to keep in touch with friends all over the world and gives my business exposure. Why are we so entitled that we won't pay a nominal fee for that? I never get spam messages on FB so not aware that that was a problem. But, if FB started charging $1 fee (like whatsapp is thinking about doing, if anyone uses that for international texting), I don't see what so outrageous about that. The mentality that "I deserve X and I won't pay even $1 for it because I deserve it for free" really is hard for me to understand.

So the stock offering failed and in fact is plumeting in value. That means nobody sees a sustainable revenue stream, a B2B value nor suatainable profit growth in Facebooks future.

No matter how hard they try, FaceBook is not a Business to Business network. Its a "my kid just lost his/her first tooth, pictures and words network and thats that.

This giant user base isn't going to pay anything to continue using it to reach folks out of their network. It has no value at all to the users.

No thanks. I won't pay and again, FaceBook seems not to understand its market and its actual users needs or wants.

Its claim to fame now is the free "connectivity" with a gazillian people on a friends and family basis. Its main users are private people not businesses.

Its not working as a B2B or Business "acquiring paying customers" network at all. So again, Facebook tries to force a money making "tool" into a market that has no need for the offering.

Nope, I wont pay just because Facebook can't convert its giant reach into giant revenue connectivity for the business world.

If there is a charge, along will come the next facebook type, be free and expand focus to be valuable to business and business will pay for that value.

It was going to turn into a pay service at some point, since so many people and companies use it for advertising, and it's probably one of if not the best form of advertising. Make it like $9.99 a year, 70% of their base stays I'd bet, I would.

Even though I use FB because family is all over the map in the U.S. -- I wouldn't pay for one single service offerred. FB's changes, esp with Timeline --were for their benefit, not for ours. It use to be simple, easy to read, chronologically in order --and now--it's a mire of wording in 4 columns at different rates of movement; half of which are advertisements---to boost stock options I would think ... much of it being something that was not needful from the user's point of view. I know of many who quit it altogether, using email instead --or use it infrequently... They've complicated and intertwined privacy settings so much now that most pple don't know what's covered up and what's in full view --or that their movement by cell phone is being tracked --which in order to remove that "happening" --needed 4 adjustments in different locations in order to cancel out their tracking system. Absolutely ridiculous. So, all-in-all, would I pay to message .. or any other activity ? You've got to be kidding me ... They had something nice going and now it's all commercialism, concentrating on selling FB as a product rather than the comfortable social communication venue it was.

I don't want anyone who's not on my friends list sending me messages and I don't wish to send them out either. Wasn't that supposed to be the point of a friends list?

Why pay for what you get free? Remember Cable TV without commercials?
Its the bait and switch used by drug dealers. First hit is free, the once you are addicted, you pay, with your money and life. They are not doing you a favor, they are looking for money for investors, why else pay Billion$$ for a company. MZ is wiser than he is smart, lining up the sheep.
Facespace has no place in my space, and I've managed OK in life.

I agree with the idea of simply emailing someone not on FB..or text or call...It would be silly to say, I am going to ignore all my free options...I am going to pay to reach them?? Say what?