Les messages privés payants pourraient bientôt arriver sur Facebook. Le réseau social est en train de tester un nouveau mécanisme consistant à obliger un usager à payer une petite somme d'argent pour contacter un autre utilisateur. S'il se généralise, Facebook assure qu'il ne concernera que certains messages très spécifiques.

A few weeks ago, as I was writing a Facebook update, I noticed that a friend who had been arrested in Syria had “liked” a Facebook page dedicated to selling insurance policies. I was shocked and immediately checked his status to see whether he had been released. He had not updated his status for months, and yet he appeared to like some random page from a company that I do not believe he would have had any interest in anyway.