{"id":651115,"date":"2013-04-08T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=423562"},"modified":"2013-04-08T13:05:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:05:52","slug":"facebook-starts-charging-wannabe-stalkers-to-message-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651115","title":{"rendered":"Facebook starts charging wannabe stalkers to message celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/08\/facebook-celebrity-messaging-initiative-423562\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/relationship-status.jpg?w=650&amp;h=700&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Facebook Celebrity Messaging\" title=\"Facebook Relationship Status\" \/><\/a><\/center>You can still send Snoop Dogg links to streams of your demo tape over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=fb\">FB<\/a>), but it&#8217;s going to cost you. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/public\/article1242024.ece\"><em>The Sunday Times<\/em> reports<\/a> that Facebook has started rolling out a program in the United Kingdom that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/20\/facebook-pay-per-message-test-program-261308\/\">allows Facebook users to send celebrities direct messages if they pay a fee<\/a>. Facebook says that the charges are intended to help people <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/27\/facebook-terms-conditions-2012-changes\/\">reduce the number of unwanted messages<\/a> they receive from people don&#8217;t know since paid messages are delivered directly to the user&#8217;s inbox at the top of the page while unpaid messages from unknown people are dumped into a less prominent folder. Facebook also says that it&#8217;s &#8220;testing a number of price points in the U.K. and other countries to establish the optimal fee that signals importance.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/b8-3J_7ur2o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can still send Snoop Dogg links to streams of your demo tape over\u00a0Facebook (FB), but it&#8217;s going to cost you. The Sunday Times reports that Facebook has started rolling out a program in the United Kingdom that allows Facebook users to send celebrities direct messages if they pay a fee. Facebook says that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}