Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a hearing in the US Senate, that will always be available a free version of Facebook. Considering the word “version” should assume, what, possibly, there will be other versions, that may apply.
During the interrogation, which lasted several hours in the US Senate Zuckerberg was asked a question by one of the senators on, or he will keep his promise, that Facebook will always be free for users. Facebook said the head, that will always be available for free version of Facebook (“There will always be a version of Facebook that is free”).
Answer, in which Zuckerberg says “version of Facebook”, and not just on Facebook, immediately sparked speculation about, that in the future there will be other versions of the site – such, to be paid. According to Mark Zuckerberg, of course, do not exclude such a scenario. The head of Facebook said on this subject more than anything.
The current business model of Facebook is based almost exclusively on income, the company received from advertisers. The Company also receives fees from the developers of the game, which can be played online. For members they are free, and Zuckerberg himself from the very beginning of a social network maintained, that Facebook always was and will be .
but, lately, after the scandal with the leak of data of millions of people from Facebook appear Offers, what, possibly, the problem could be solved, if Facebook, instead of, to earn on advertising, just I started to charge users. Then he could remove advertisers, who hunt for data on user behavior in order, to better adapt to your ad text.
Among the critics of the current business model proved to Facebook, by the way, Apple CEO Tim Cook, who recently suggested the two interviews, that if a customer does not pay for the product, then he is a product sold (guessing: advertisers).
Zuckerberg still disagreed, but his words from an interview in the Senate show, what, possibly, in the future as there is a paid version Facebook, which is not advertising, and advertisers.
