[dohko]

I agree. Quite honestly what sane person would pay for the ability to use a social media website? What does facebook offer that is unique and worth paying for, other than a large user base? The moment that facebook starts charging their user-base there is really nothing from stopping them to use it and move on to the next free social-media colossus.

[runako]

People routinely paid for photo sharing on the Web before Facebook. Mentally strip out the rest of the site if it helps understand, and you're left with a site where you can instantly publish pictures to your friends and family from your mobile phone. People have and do pay for that feature alone on other sites.