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Facebook's Pay-To-Play

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    FBN's Shibani Joshi on Facebook's new plan to charge $1 for some emails.

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Just want to think about for a second would you be would you be willing to pay a dollar is to have direct contact with somebody.

You want to reach on FaceBook the company -- say it testing out a new plant in Shibani Joshi should tell us about -- -- Interesting idea Connell because.

-- has a lot of information about its users your birthday even in music that you listen to the one piece of information it doesn't have enough bad.

He's your credit card information and that is exactly this scheme that it is trying to test out.

One dollar is all it will cost you to contact people that are outside of your immediate friends circle.

This being announced by the company on its blog right now -- restrictions are that members can only send messages to people living your friend circle.

And your inbox there's this other box I don't know if you've noticed and I certainly didn't notice until now.

Mail from everyone else gets caught in this other box but now on this new program announced by FaceBook -- the company blog.

It would allow strangers to move from the other box to your inbox.

For four quarters pretty interesting idea we'll see -- it pans out for the company and get -- -- credit card numbers are looking for.

Shows you how close that's it I never I'm with the I never saw these high and then other would that you just had circled I didn't know that existed on check it out today because I think for the weekend thank you should punish -- wonder who -- my other all right we're gonna.

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