Will Facebook Shut Down PaidStatus?

PaidStatus is a new service that lets advertisers buy people’s status updates for advertising purposes, but while this could be a marketer’s paradise, it violates Facebook’s terms. For a relatively small fee, users will post advertisers’ message on their status update, probably confusing a lot of friends but generating a nice income stream for the user. The biggest question at hand is: will Facebook shut this down?

Users get a fee ranging from “$10 to $1000”, and the eligible users need to have a minimum of 500 friends (the average number of friends on Facebook is 130).