One of the biggest changes in social media platforms in recent times is A complete change to the tick-confirmed account system it happened. Previously, this system was a kind of “certificate of trustworthiness and officiality” of an account, but now it has become a “thing” that is given for a fee to anyone who wants it. While the architect of this change was Elon Musk’s Twitter, Meta also announced that it was included in this trend with a recent announcement.

In this new system, called Meta Verified, users get verified profile badges, or “checkmarks,” for a “small subscription fee.” The fee for the system, which is currently only applied in Australia and New Zealand $11.99 for iOS, $14.99 for Android declared as. It is not yet clear when the system will come to Turkey or what the fee will be.

This paid system from Meta themed “give money, see more” seems to have backfired at first;

Searches for ‘close account’ are increasing in Australia, New Zealand, Worldwide and Turkey…

The verified account badges that come with Meta’s new paid system have some payouts. While some of these are related to security, the most notable are Get featured and featured more in places like search, comments, and suggestions it happened.

In short, Meta is no longer just for business/brand/influencer accounts, but regular user accounts as well. He says that if you give us money, we will show your account to more people. He tries to generate regular income from anyone who wants to grow his account.

However, Meta, which constantly loses the satisfaction of its users and loses them to platforms like TikTok, because of the place they have already transformed. seems to lose blood with its new paid system. There were sudden increases in searches like ‘quit Instagram’ ‘quit Facebook’, following Meta’s explanation. For example, after the announcement on February 19, the search for “Deactivate Instagram” increased by 2,400%, while the search for “Deactivate Facebook” increased by 1,566%.

In addition, the feature is currently only available in two countries. If available worldwide The reaction it will see will help us make a better conclusion, but for now the situation doesn’t look good for Meta.

Of course calling rates will be back to normal in the next few days, but This sudden reaction shows that users are not very happy with the new news they receive.. Instagram and Facebook often take a step back after unpopular and reactionary innovations. We’ll have to wait and see if something similar will happen this time.