Heya facebookers who are joining the groups like "facebook will charge untill we get 1,000,000 members" or "300,000 Members are needed to stop facebook from charging money". Those Types of group have there own use. It helps the creator to get more members so later he can use for its own purposes.Facebook is now a multi billion dollar company, it makes million/day just by displaying ads and from other sources. If its start charging money then people will forget was facebook was :)
Article appeared on telegraph.co.uk
Both groups collectively have nearly 200,000 members and believe that the site will soon begin charging somewhere in the region of £14.99 for use of the social network.
The more popular group, entitled: “We will not pay to use Facebook – we are gone if this happens”, now has over 140,000 members and aims to get 300,000 members to sign its petition.
“This is a petition to stop Facebook from charging £/$14.99 a month starting from July 2010.
“Because of Facebook's huge popularity, Mark Zuckerberg [founder and chief] is getting a lot of offers from people wanting to buy Facebook - people who WILL turn it into a paysite.
“Let’s all stick together on this one and let them know that we will leave Facebook if they decide to charge us to use it," says the group's manifesto.
However, Facebook flat out deny the claims. A spokesman for the company said: “We have no plans to charge users for Facebook's basic services. Facebook is a free service for its 350 million users.”
Some smaller groups dedicated to spreading the message that Facebook will not begin charging from the beginning in July 2010 have also sprung up.
Last week The Telegraph reported that more than 420,000 people had joined a Facebook group called ”Save Top Gear” after fears emerged online that the popular BBC Two show might be axed. This was despite the BBC confirming that a new series will be made and that “Top Gear will be around for a long time yet”.
The programme’s long-time producer, Andy Wilman, began the controversy with a blog post looking at the recently completed Series 14, and conceding that previous runs had been more consistently entertaining.
The rumour about Facebook charging for its content appears to have come from a hoax email circulated on the site.
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