Facebook to Make Us Pay for Sending Messages to Non-Friends, Celebs ….

Facebook is bringing back its controversial paid service policies once again by testing in a new system that makes you to pay an amount for sending private messages to celebrities and others outside their friends circle. The payment is based on how many followers the person you're messaging has, as well as how many other people are trying to get in touch with them. Facebook has abandoned its early controversial plan to charge you $100 to message Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook says the scheme is intended to "prevent spam while acknowledging that sometimes you might want to hear from people outside your immediate social circle" - although there are ways to prevent spam that don't involve cleaning of our pockets, I would say. As for pricing: "We are testing a number of price points in the UK and other countries to establish the optimal fee that signals importance."

Facebook also started testing a new paid e-mail service with select users in the U.S. earlier this year. “This test will give a small number of people the option to pay to have a message routed to the Inbox rather than the Other folder of a recipient that they are not connected with,” the company had said in a statement.

Getting in touch with diver Tom Daley currently sets trialees back ₹888.58, while author (and sometime actor) Salman Rushdie commands ₹838.66. Not everyone will be seeing the option yet -so if you're not in the trial, get your free celeb messaging in while you still can.