"Pay $100 to send a message to Zuckerburg"

"Facebook shares sky-rocket more than 78% since September"

These two oddly sounding pieces of news about Facebook have come in quick succession. What do the users believe now?

While the stock reports can be as genuine as possible, but according to Mashable's early morning reports today, now users are being charged $100 if they drop a message to Facebook CEO Zuckerburg's inbox. Before popping those eyeballs, hold on. Coincidental or not, it is applicable only for those who aren't there in Zuckeburg's 16 million followers list. So rest assured Facebook autocracy hasn't spread recklessly yet.

The move seen in the obvious distasteful light, has produced a unanimous industry opinion among analysts. Moreover, the back-roll move of FB stocks happening in close call with this pricey add-on, is but an indication of Facebook's plan to draw in extra revenues. We do not wish to question their means nor methods, but why would anyone pay to message! This cuts down on the very advantage that social media sites offer- a free open source of interaction and information sharing.

Mashable team observes that this move might be a follow up to the US$1 pay-to-message plan that was floated in December last year. According to this concept, anyone can send a message to a fellow user's inbox directly "for one-time fee". The catch however is that the sender may not be your friend or acquaintance. While for businesses and promotion dudes, it is a more than welcome move; however the everyday common users have to take this with a pinch of salt. Moreover Facebook recently introduced new services for controlling the content posted besides a host of other privacy changes in its user accounts.

Facebook has not made any official statement in this regard but a spokesman has opined "We are testing some extreme price points to see what works to filter spam."

The streamlining idea seems very genuine for starts. It is pretty obvious that the quality of messages one would receive, if the project gets fully approved, would improve vastly. No one will in their right mind would pay up to send messages in this day and age after all! The Facebook settings already have the "Other" inbox option, where irrelevant messages automatically get dumped. As controversial as it is, it has both good and bad consequences.

So the $100 question is: are you willing to pay?

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