Facebook’s five most popular rumors
Facebook has become an (almost) vital tool for communicating with your friends, family, and professional circles, but it is also here that myths and rumors quickly spread. And people easily believe it, protest, create groups against the new features, while none of these rumors are founded or validated by Facebook. Here is a list of the 5 most popular.
Facebook will become paid
It has to be the most popular rumor. Facebook is free and never will be. But for thousands of users, Facebook is about to start charging for its service. The price tends to fluctuate from time to time, but people keep getting cheated. It is public and official knowledge: Facebook will never become chargeable.
Facebook will sell your data
If Facebook doesn’t get paid, they have to find a way to make money, by selling your data for example. But no, Facebook does not sell your data to advertisers. On the other hand, they allow advertisers to do targeted advertising. None of the user’s information is communicated to the advertiser. Instead, the advertiser receives a report showing anonymous statistics: No personal information is available.
The business is doing very well with advertising revenue. In fact, it is expected to exceed $ 1 billion in revenue this year, the majority of which is generated by the ad platform. In other words, the business will never need to sell your data in order to “cover their losses so that they finally come close to profitability.”
The like button reveals your data!
You know this plugin released a few months ago that lets you see which posts are the most popular among your friends or lets you see who else likes what you like? Some people have made believe that these plugins expose data to the site owner. In reality, no data is ever made available to the site owner. Site owners place these buttons on their sites to increase user participation.
NB: However, the “Like” button is not to be confused with the Facebook connect, which – by definition – offers sites that use it to give you all the information you agree to offer.
Facebook is launching a webmail
One of the lesser-known rumors is that Facebook may launch a messaging service. While many carried hopes of having an @ facebook.com address, Mark Zuckerberg recently rejected such requests. Paul Bucheit, the creator of Gmail told us he was not working on a secret email client. It should not be counted on.
Don’t cry, Facebook has other surprises in store for you 
Facebook launches a music label
Another popular rumor from the past three years is that Facebook is secretly working on an online music store project. Although iLike is becoming very popular, and it is one of the most viral apps of all time, it is not. In addition, in October of last year, Lala entered the Facebook gift shop, only to disappear in May of this year following the takeover of the company by Apple.
