Facebook is finally integrating music to our options! In a recent blog post, Facebook has stated that users will now be able to send music to their friends. As with everything in life, there are pros and cons to this new addition. As the saying goes “nothing in life is free”. That’s right; you will have to pay a small fee when accessing music from them.
Hopefully you have good friends who think you’re worthwhile enough to spend a few cents on you. Yes, only a few cents. The music files must be purchased with Facebook credits. Credits run for 10 cents apiece and can be purchased with a credit card. This shouldn’t be too shell shocking for you. If you haven’t noticed yet, gifts that used to be free now cost “credits” as well.
The “Music and MP3” section is being powered by LaLa.com and will offer 8 million songs. Prices will range from one credit to nine credits. Songs can be played by the recipients from their News Feed and Wall as often as they like. They will also be able to access these songs at LaLa.com if they have an existing account or would like to sign up using Facebook content.
One of the best pluses to this addition is that recipients will be able to download the songs and utilize them on other media players like iTunes and Windows Media Player. The downside, maybe, is that if you travel to a friend’s page and click on the song, you can hear the full version once and after you will only be able to hear a clip. Hey, they have to make money somehow, no? Jam away!
