When FaceBook launched awhile back (I think I joined in the end of 2003), I really thought it would be a college networking site and no more. Now that we have all these companies using FaceBook, and the like, as free advertising hubs, they should be subsidizing for the average user. I could see an argument for a site like FaceBook to start charging for application use, like the iPhone apps, but it probably isn't very likely because people are trained to get these for free. Plus a lot of the apps I see on Facebook are games and there are so many free gaming sites out there (my personal favorite is addictinggames.com).
Maybe we are just not there yet. Maybe television will be extinct as we know it in 5-10 years. I do enjoy Hulu. All these networks made billions by advertising, not by charging for their channel (OK well some of them do, but the big networks don't). Why would we even broadcast through the airwaves in the future, just stream everything via the web and have one place where everyone goes for their own tastes. Then the revenue dollars from advertising will be realized, and you would start seeing more subscription services (maybe even bundles for certain sites, like TV packages now). It is fun to speculate.
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