Once again, a social network site is changing the rules midstream leaving people vulnerable to losing their connection to their market and/or clients.
NING announced today that there will be only premium accounts, (premium meaning you must pay of course).
So what will happen to those who won’t or can’t pay the installments required to keep their niche site going?
The management over at NING will begin laying off 40% of their staff as of tomorrow, so I don’t think they will wait long to make their sweeping changes. Read more here: NING site news
I highly recommend that EVERYONE has a website that they are in control of. Why?
- Countless people have been shut out of their free blogging platforms because they broke the rules
- Facebook has closed down profiles of people who have pushed the limits
- Ning sites are now charging a premium for the free services they provided yesterday
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This is indeed bad news for those Ning users and I agree with you here about using WordPress. If we want to take control of our online endeavors, we must have control of our medium.
Thanks for your comment Walter. Hopefully not a lot of people were using NING as their hub.
Well … there go my plans to build a Ning network.
Glad I didn’t.
What do you think of using Facebook for fans?
Any sense if Facebook will go the same way?
Thanks for the heads up.
Lyle
Hi Lyle! Nice to see you here and thank you for the comment.
It’s really hard to say. We are paying pretty close attention to any Facebook news, and there isn’t any indication from
them that they are thinking of charging users to be on Facebook.
The difference between Facebook and NING is that Facebook makes money from ads so there is a huge revenue stream.
With NING, the only apparent revenue stream was from the ads over to the right of the content. A NING user could pay $25 per
month to take the ads down and replace them with their own, but I doubt that many opted to do that.
It is definitely something to keep an eye on.
Kathleen