Direct Mail spam. Even if this is something some businesses will pay for, and even if it isn't a lot of messages, it is still an annoyance.
Would there be 1,000 businesses willing to spend $1 million each to send a message to a million people? That's $1 billion. Can messages be targeted enough and give a good enough ROI? Will users be pissed off and dismiss businesses that put ads into their private inbox?
Set caps on spam and auction the space, then. If the price of getting to your inbox is $10 people will have to have a really good reason for getting in touch.
I'm usually anti-FB but I'm curious to see where this goes.
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Direct Mail spam. Even if this is something some businesses will pay for, and even if it isn't a lot of messages, it is still an annoyance.
Would there be 1,000 businesses willing to spend $1 million each to send a message to a million people? That's $1 billion. Can messages be targeted enough and give a good enough ROI? Will users be pissed off and dismiss businesses that put ads into their private inbox?
More negatives than positives, IMHO..
Set caps on spam and auction the space, then. If the price of getting to your inbox is $10 people will have to have a really good reason for getting in touch.
I'm usually anti-FB but I'm curious to see where this goes.
Or, set the price to be a function of the number of messages the sender sent per day.
E.g. If I've sent `s` messages per day averaged over the last N days, the next message that I send should cost (rounded to the nearest penny):
That'll put a damper on it right quick. Sending 100 messages will cost $168.79, sending 200 will cost $625.35.I don't see this happening, as Facebook has no trouble abusing the userbase.
Captchas?