Facebook to launch subscription groups?

The popular social network is implementing a feature that might cause commotion among the users and drive them away from Facebook.

Facebook has announced that it is piloting subscriptions with a small number of groups.

Continued support to group admins who lead these communities is cited as the reason for the change of their free service-based policy.

– Group admins have told us that they would like tools to help them continue to invest in their community and offer more to members. Today, we’re piloting subscriptions with a small number of groups to continue to support group admins who lead these communities – Facebook says in an official statement.

The pilot project will be implemented across several Facebook groups, whose users will be notified that they will need to subscribe in order to keep participating in the group.

Publicly available information says that the admins themselves will be setting the monthly subscription, which will range from 4.99 to 29.99 dollars. Users will manage their subscription through the Facebook app for iOS and Android.

– As we learn from this pilot and understand how group members feel about subscription groups, we’ll continue to improve this experience to help admins offer more to their members and continue to invest in their communities – the press release says.

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