Facebook does not plan to charge!

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There are a lot of alarmist messages spreading around Facebook and the internet that suggest that Facebook is going to start charging members to use the site. Many of the users who have been taken in by this have joined a Facebook group named something along the lines of "We will not pay to use Facebook, if this happens we are gone!" and the group membership numbers are absolutely huge. Facebook has no plans to charge and these rumours have been doing the rounds for months on end. The popular debunking website, Snopes.com, quotes Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chied operating officer and her claims to the Business Week magazine: "The answer is no, we are not planning on charging a basic fee for our basic services. Once again, that question stems from people thinking we're growing so quickly we're running out of money. We're growing really quickly but we can finance that growth. We're not going to charge for our basic services." UK newspaper, The Guardian, ran an article only recently discussing how the company is edging ever closer to becoming profitable. The worst thing Facebook could do right now is drive away a section of the membership which is its greatest asset. Bear this in mind when the next scaremonger tells you to set up a backup account somewhere else ready for the big migration when Facebook brings in membership fees - it's just not going to happen!