{"id":445,"date":"2010-01-19T21:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/01\/19\/charge-for-facebook-hoax\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:45","slug":"charge-for-facebook-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/01\/19\/charge-for-facebook-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Charge for Facebook Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"

After receiving a Facebook group invite to join NO, I WILL NOT PAY $3.99 A MONTH TO USE FACE BOOK FROM JULY 9TH 2010!<\/a>, I decided to do a little research. Though I agree with the sentiment, I was dubious since this was the first I’d heard of Facebook charging for the popular service.<\/p>\n

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Found lots of people asking if this was true and nobody seemed to know for sure. Thought it was all a harmless hoax until I decided to check out Snopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For those who don’t know, Snopes serves as the ultimate answers clearing house for Internet rumors and urban legends. If it sounds too good to be true or it couldn’t possibly be true, Snopes is the place to find out.<\/p>\n

I searched for "Facebook" and "charge" and lo and behold look what I found<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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\nIt elevated from a harmless hoax to something potentially very harmful. Facebook has no plans to ever charge, so ignore any invites to any groups that say otherwise. They are up to no good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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