Facebook sells green area for 285,000 VND/month, do young people spend money to buy it?

Tram Ho

On February 19, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta posted a remarkable status about the service providing green ticks. Accordingly, Meta company will collect green fees on social networking platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. The new service will be called Meta Verified, priced at $11.99 (VND 280,000) per month when registered on the website. If you sign up through the iOS app, you’ll have to pay $14.99 per month.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s post announcing the green selling service

“We will begin rolling out Meta Verified, a subscription service that will allow you to verify your account for a green tick, enhance account protection from impersonation, and will have direct access to the This feature is intended to increase authenticity and security on our services. Meta Verified will cost $11.99/month on the web or $14.99/month on iOS,” Mark said. Zuckerberg wrote on his personal Facebook page.

With the price of about 285,000 VND/month, many young people said they are willing to spend money to buy this tick mark because of the benefits it brings. However, others believe that the commercialization of the “owner’s seal” may make it lose its inherent value.

Ready to buy green tick to “live virtual”, protect personal image

As a talented young Gen Z, Thanh Phat (23 years old) said he is willing to buy green ticks from Facebook to become more prominent in his friends list.

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With the price of about 285,000 VND/month, many young people said they are willing to spend money to buy this tick mark because of the benefits it brings (Image: Getty)

“The fact that the personal page has a green tick makes me feel ‘more majestic’, affirming its prestige and reliability as well as avoiding fake cases and adversely affecting personal image,” Thanh Phat said. , PR staff at a media and entertainment sharing company.

According to Phat, the price of 280,000 VND/month is much cheaper than the amount of money he has to spend on the green cleaning services that he has learned about, so Phat is ready to spend money if this service “docks” in Vietnam. Male.

As for Tran Ngoc (26 years old), buying a green tick for her personal account to be more prestigious to serve her business is her long-standing wish.

“Having a green tick will help your business, not only creating trust, but also affirming that the account is the owner, without worrying about others impersonating for profit or having bad intentions with customers. goods,” Ngoc said.

Meanwhile, with Hanh Pham (25 years old), having a green tick both helps the account become luxurious and at the same time avoids being faked by bad guys, so Hanh is ready to buy. “While helping to live virtual and ensure safety against a series of fake accounts, I find it quite profitable, so I am willing to spend 280,000 / month to buy this genuine seal,” Hanh said.

“When green ticks abound, there’s no reason to spend money”

In addition to the concurring opinions, there are also many people who feel disappointed that it is not worth spending money when Facebook commercializes the green tick.

Minh Trang (24 years old) thinks that if anyone can buy it and the green tick appears rampant, it will no longer bring much value.

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Many people feel disappointed, it is not worth spending money when Facebook commercializes the green tick

“The green mark on Facebook means that this is an official account and the account holder has a great influence on the community. So commercializing the “owner’s seal” may make it lose its value. inherent value,” shared Minh Trang, an employee of a media company.

Also agreeing with Minh Trang, Thanh Viet (23 years old) thinks that this may reduce the value of creative efforts of influencers.

“The commercialization of the green tick on Facebook will cause unfairness to those who contribute to the community with projects and practical values. Commercializing it may reduce its value. creative efforts of people who have influence on the community,” Viet said.

This service is also evaluated by many young people as just looking to “pickpocket” users.

“Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta Verified service is intended to increase the authenticity and security of Meta’s service, but this is what Meta should have done in the first place. Maybe only paying users will get increased security. confidential, and free users do not care about them,” Tuan Anh (25 years old) said.

It is estimated that currently Facebook and Instagram have a total of more than 4 billion regular users, as long as a small number of users from these two platforms use the Meta Verified service, the amount of Meta earned monthly is huge. The open question is whether users are willing to spend a small amount of money to own a green account on Facebook and Instagram?

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Source : Genk