SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc. is letting users in the United States pay a fee to boost the visibility of their postings on the social network, the company's latest effort to look beyond advertisers for revenue.
The promoted-posts-for-users feature, which Facebook began offering as a test on Wednesday to a limited number of its U.S. users, ensures that a comment or photo shared by a Facebook member gets prominent billing in their friends' newsfeeds.
"When you promote a post - whether it's wedding photos, a garage sale, or big news - you bump it higher in news feed so your friends and subscribers are more likely to notice it," Facebook said in an announcement on its official blog on Wednesday.
Facebook is considering a variety of prices. The current test price in the United States is US$7, according to a Facebook spokesman.
If it causes your feed to fill up with ads, then the only people to blame are your own friends.
Your friends would be the ones paying to promote their own content so it ranks higher in your feed.
I deleted my Facebook by the time I heard the 10th news report of someone being fired because of a 25 year old college pic getting tagged.
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