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Would you pay Facebook to promote posts to more friends?

Highlight lets the average user, not Pages or businesses, select an “important post” and make sure friends see the update, the blog explains.

Highlighted posts could appear higher in the news feed, stay visible for longer, and display in front of more friends and subscribers. “However, they’re not colored differently to make them stand out. And to be clear, this is not like Twitter’s Promoted Tweets which is designed for businesses. Facebook Highlight is for the end-user.”

New Zealand is reportedly a testing ground for this new feature, which hasn’t been rolled out officially yet. Facebook wrote to TechCrunch: “We’re constantly testing new features across the site. This particular test is simply to gauge people’s interest in this method of sharing with their friends.”

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Facebook’s Highlight feature
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A New Zealand report states: “The trial appears to mark Facebook’s first attempt to make money from postings by regular users and comes as it is gearing up for a public listing which is expected to value the company at about US$90 billion.”

The experiment is playing with different fees for this feature, including a free option. A screenshot of the feature shows a widget asking for $1.80 US to use Highlight.

This article originally appeared in the Future of Media blog

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