You switch on your computer. You start a internet browser.
Its time for routine checking of your facebook or twitter profile(considering Orkut is extinct)..Then you want to see trailer of a yet to be released or a newly released movie..you want to see it again and again..some videos even tempt you to download them..
But imagine if these “free” to access websites switched to become “paid” services.Will you the pay the price? Here’s how some of the services may change for the worse!
Facebook: Social Networking @ $0.99 . What’s on your mind? Post it down at $0.99. You were tagged in an album, Mr X likes your post, pay $0.99. They can keep signing up for the account free though. They may change their tag line on the website to : Worth the price and everyone can join!
Twitter: What are you doing? Tell the world in $ 3 only. Or a twitter whale(shows up during server busy or server failure conditions)appears on your screen and says “you can be back with your friends in $2”
You Tube: You heard that a sneak peak of a new movie was exclusively available on You Tube. How about if You Tube shows you first half of the trailor and asks you to pay $1 to watch the complete trailer!! Will you pay the price?
GPS with Google Maps: You start to move on the directions calculated. At a point the application asks you, Left or Right? Pay $2 to know!
Instant Messengers: The Instant time killers in fact. How about if they become paid? Horrible Idea.!!
What makes me to think these free to paid transitions in the future is the level of addiction we have in using these websites or utilities.We now many a times use google maps nothing but just for fun, let’s find the directions between our college and home. Or endlessly sit down to watch repeats of a T.V. program on YouTube. If these services would have been paid, we would have perhaps been more sensible in our approach to using these websites or some may even end up paying the price!!
What’s your say??post your comments below at a cost!!!(just kidding).
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