Pay Facebook To Make Your Friends Pay Attention To You

    A new feature in testing, called Highlight, would allow you to pay Facebook a couple of bucks to make sure your status update is seen by more than the 12 percent of friends that typically sees a newsfeed story. The attention cycle is a vicious thing! Just imagine paying more money to get more attention, auction style. It'd be like election season but ALL THE TIME.

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Pay Facebook To Make Your Friends Pay Attention To You

    techcrunch.com

    A new feature in testing, called Highlight, would allow you to pay Facebook a couple of bucks to make sure your status update is seen by more than the 12 percent of friends that typically sees a newsfeed story. The attention cycle is a vicious thing! Just imagine paying more money to get more attention, auction style. It'd be like election season but ALL THE TIME.