Facebook Testing Status Update Ads?

[selboy]

Came across this article about Facebook today...

Facebook appears to either be rolling out or testing a feature that lets Facebook Page owners promote specific posts. When you make an update, a link that says, "Promote" can be found by the links for "Comment" and "Like".
Once you click that Promote link, it brings up a dialogue box, which asks you to create an ad, with targeting descriptions, the ad duration, and the maximum price of "Up to $50.00 USD".
Interestingly enough, this comes after talk last week about how you have to have promotions approved by a Facebook account representative, which would reportedly cost you about $10k. This would appear to eliminate that notion.
The feature appears to only be available for some admins of some pages. We're not sure if they're rolling out the feature or just testing it.

[www.madbug.co.uk]

I am unsure of what they are doing, I cannot see it taking off if there is such a price tag.

I am not sure how many normal posters would use such a function and I would also argue generally have ads (of ads sense ) on sites like face book etc is not as productive as it could be as most people use ad blockers, however if they were to tie them in at the bottom of a persons post it would work as you couldn't block the ad as it would be part of the message and you would lose it all if you sleected it as an adblock option.

[Gigahalem]

I think that it will enable big companies to monopolize the market, which isn't fair, and the price tag is ridiculous as well. The best way to do facebook ads is the way they have already, and its really really cheap too.

[GeorgeS]

Facebook, the giant social media juggernaut who has taken the online scene by storm is doing it once more. It appears that Facebook has begun testing advertisements that are based on status updates. It also appears that they are testing Facebook ads on wall posts published by your friends. I’ve thought for years that they were going to do this but never thought it would be this soon.
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[www.madbug.co.uk]

could bring up some funny results, however I see no adverts on any website I visit (unless I want to)