Facebook: Would you pay $2 to be popular?

5:55 AM Sunday May 13, 2012

Facebook is testing a "pay to be popular" option in New Zealand so users can get noticed by their friends

The social network is currently offering some users a $2 "highlight" feature to ensure their posts are seen by more people.

It's one of several money-making drives being testing ahead of Facebook's listing on the stockmarket.

Recent figures have shown that only 12 per cent of users' Facebook friends see an average status update.

The highlight feature will let users pay to have posts appear to more friends.

As well as being tested with some users in New Zealand, a free version is also being trialled to gauge users' interest.

Facebook said it was constantly testing new features.

Would you pay to be popular?

Daniel Jones () | 09:30AM Sunday, 13 May 2012

Yeah I have seen this new feature on my facebook,the first one was free and I used it to post something I though was important, the more options for me the better, some are free and some are not,facebook has give so much to us so far for free, but they have to make money somehow,I will definitely pay and use this in the future if I think it is important :)

TomSalleck () | 09:30AM Sunday, 13 May 2012

I'm pretty sure if you have to pay to be 'popular' you arent popular.

LukaDuka (Auckland Central) | 09:39AM Sunday, 13 May 2012

Prolific Facebook users tend to be narcissists. This will only serve to highlight those individuals even more. Oh and also the people that are using it for commercial purposes.