Re:LinkedIn charges $250 a year to view users' full profiles.
by ujjwalg on Thursday August 27, 2009 @06:42PM
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Personally speaking, I wont pay if facebook starts charging me $20/year. Rather, it might improve my life because I wont waste anytime on it. However, if google starts charging for gmail, I will totally pay an annual amount as long as they open a customer service center.
Re:LinkedIn charges $250 a year to view users' full profiles.
by jedc on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:43AM
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They don't charge because a good number of people won't pay that $20/year. And if those friends/colleagues/family don't pay and aren't on the site, it becomes less valuable for you. And then suddenly you won't pay the $20. :)
I have always wondered why Facebook doesn't charge annual fee for their service. They are at the point where if they charge me $20/year, I am too dependent on it to not pay that fee. While you can argue another free service may come along and take all that away from Facebook, but building a 250M user base is not trivial...