When Facebook’s IPO didn’t go as smoothly as planned, naysayers like Gizmodo predicted the company would start charging users.
Jest even made a hilarious commercial parody, describing all the ways the company could charge for services like “Facebook Gold” and “Facebook Platinum.”
But such a move would probably be more disastrous for Facebook than even its IPO was.
As NPR’s Chana Joffe-Walt reports, a similar thing happened 70 years ago when Red Cross charged soldiers for doughnuts and [...]




