Fancy yourself a creator or influencer and afraid someone may try to impersonate you? Have I got the next great subscription service for your life: Meta Verified, a $12/month service that will verify your accounts across the Meta-owned platforms and ensure that your fans know it’s actually you they are following and interacting with. Honestly, it’s stupid not to sign up.
Currently being tested in markets like New Zealand and Australia, Meta Verified not only comes with a spiffy verification badge, your subscription will also come with “proactive account monitoring,” access to dedicated representatives to help you with account issues, as well as increased visibility in places like search and recommendations. Personally, I think it’s nice when a company pulls back the curtain ever so slightly and is very forward that the algorithm powering everything we see on these platforms is easily controlled and manipulated for as little as $12/month.
Here’s What Comes With a Meta Verified Subscription
- A verified badge, confirming you’re the real you and that your account has been authenticated with a government ID.
- More protection from impersonation with proactive account monitoring for impersonators who might target people with growing online audiences.
- Help when you need it with access to a real person for common account issues.
- Increased visibility and reach with prominence in some areas of the platform– like search, comments and recommendations.
- Exclusive features to express yourself in unique ways.
What’s really odd is the pricing setup. According to the announcement, Meta Verified will be available for direct purchase on Instagram or Facebook in Australia and New Zealand starting later this week for $12/month on the web, but $15/month on Android and iOS. Why the difference? I have no clue.
Look, I get it and I understand why things like this exist. Meta gets money and creators get a little badge and a bit more exposure. Maybe it’s a win-win and I’m a cynical tool (probable), but come on. No one is forcing me to sign up, so don’t get too upset with my ranting. It’s only a case of the Mondays.
// Meta
If everyone just gets off the FB and social media tit we would all be much better off. They are what’s ruining the world faster than anything. ????
The world was a much nicer place before Facebook/Meta, twitter, tik tok….social media as humans know it is genuinely evil….
Only privileged white people think this.
with any luck this should be the end of facebook/meta
What amazes me is the number of morons still on facebook advertising their livestyle. Might as well just run around naked…
It’s interesting that you presume that I Don’t run around naked. LOL
To cover the 30% service fee of both Google/Apple App Stores.
OR DELETE FACEBOOK/META AND TWITTER FOR FREE!!!!!nobody actually NEEDS this crap, pick up a phone, write a letter….humanity always found ways to communicate and socialize that did not involve social media or the internet, in the past…..
I wouldn’t trust Meta with a copy of my government ID if my life depended on it.
I hate Facebook and all social media. Only reason I have Facebook and only Facebook is market place to buy and sell and keep in touch with friends and family. Wouldn’t bother me if all social media would just go away… especially tiktok and snapchat. ???? I believe it’s ruining people cause that’s all everyone wants to do and there’s no more socializing.
Why do I have to pay them extra to protect my account from their own failure to protect my account?
It is for protection – aka mafia. They wouldn’t want some thug to come break your knee caps, right? Just pay them a cut to make sure that doesn’t happen.
I wonder how this impacts FB marketplace?
Sigh. This reminds me of paid streaming services. You’re going to join at some point!
I don’t Meta, so it won’t impact me, nor will Twitter’s schemes as I’m not there either.
Wait…Facebook is still a thing? I thought it was just for 13-year-old girls.
Actually the highest growing demographic of Facebook users are over 60 years of age. Teens are all on Tick-Tok and will look at you strange if you ask if they on Facebook. Most people in thirties migrated over to Instagram
Learned something new.
yup. I enjoyed IG in my 30’s when it was more photo-based. In my early 40s now and I’ve heavily distanced myself from IG ever since they started pushing tik-tok esque algorithms and trash ads.
As a Gen-Xer, I can’t stand the Facebook Boomers or the TikTok Zers. Might just get off the internet altogether soon and get a Light phone or Punkt phone soon. https://media4.giphy.com/media/a0Zmcqe6VlmVO/giphy.gif
And your mom. And that’s not me being mean, moms love Facebook, especially my mom. *eye roll*
*63-year-old girks.
fixed that for you.
I can verify that I don’t even have a Facebook account and never will.
Ages ago when I still gave a crap about Facebook, I had two requirements to ever pay for an account on the site and I’m not surprised to see neither of them met. 1) Zero ads. Not even this 50% garbage Twitter is pulling. There should be none. 2) Full feed control. If I’m paying for my account, your metrics about what keeps me on the site longer shouldn’t mean squat seeing as I won’t be seeing more ads (see requirement 1) meaning there’s no reason I shouldn’t have full control over what I want and don’t want to see.
Yeah that would be cool. Zero ads. Facebook is the worst right now.
So WE are the product, and now supposed to pay for the privilege.
difference in price is because they raise Android/iOS fee to account for the cut app stores take from subscriptions
Oh yeah, makes perfect sense! God help us.