Facebook adding a subscription fee?

Many Facebook users were surprised when their friends started posting a copy & paste message as their statuses saying that the website would start charging for its service. Many users were angered by this and threatened to stop using the website if they did this. The post was later stated as being false and Facebook released a comment for this post saying that Facebook is free and it always will be.

What most probably caused people to believe this rumor was that the website went under a major user interface update and might have caused some people to think that Facebook was going to become a paid subscription service due to the update. What surprised me most about this was that users threatened to move to other social sites such as Myspace and the newly established Google+. This proves that people can be as willing to change from one social network to another for reasons such as this.