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To: Sr K who wrote (564)	5/21/2012 6:46:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3790

They don't want to do anything that will limit membership. Because new members beget more new members. The reason the are approaching a billion is because they don't charge. Even a small subscription fee would see half or more of these people leave. Another company who went the route of charging a fee is classmates.com, and I don't know of anyone who even goes there and I doubt most people have even heard of them in the last few years. If FB is going to grow they're going to have to use the data. For something.

To: Sr K who wrote (564)	5/21/2012 6:52:27 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3790

You can generally circumvent the New York Times pay wall (if you are so inclined) through Twitter. Just copy the the title of the article and paste it into Twitter's search function. When you access NYT articles through Twitter it does not count against your monthly allotment. You can also access the articles (though not always) through Google News and many of the aggregation websites such as Techmeme and its affiliated (Mediagazer and Memorandum).