Posted Facebook post - get paid

Facebook is considering ways to reward users for posting. This week, the company launched a survey to find out people's opinions about monetization options.

There are several options: tips from friends and readers, branded content, sponsorship, donations to charity, affiliate link (a button like “Buy tickets”) or a part of advertising social network revenues received from advertising in your record.



It is strange that the most logical option "part of the advertising revenues of the social network" put the last in the list of options. Perhaps Facebook consciously uses a well-known poll trick, where the first response options get more votes than the last. That is, the company does not want this answer to be too popular.

The poll appeared on the page of one of the verified users with a relatively small number of followers. It can be assumed that it is for such users that they plan to introduce monetization programs, that is, a person will have to confirm his identity and submit documents.

Facebook is not the first UGC platform to pay users for publishing materials. YouTube has been doing this since 2007. Streaming platform for video broadcasting gaming sessions for gamers Twitch offers several options for monetization: receiving part of advertising revenue, paid subscriptions, selling souvenirs.

On other platforms like Twitter or Livejournal, where there is no official monetization program, users independently enter into a sponsorship agreement with advertisers and get paid for recordings without asking permission from the company.

In general, Facebook and other social networks are often criticized for appropriating the entire income from the publication of user materials and not sharing with them. They get free content and unfairly profit from it. Last year, Facebook earned $ 17.93 billion, and Mark Zuckerberg came out on the 6th place in the list of the richest people on Earth.