Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook

An anonymous reader writes: With $16,000 and the help of the Mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, the town he lives in, Atilla Barros and three other Evangelical Christians created Facegloria, a "sin-free" version of Facebook. Swearing is banned, along with about 600 other words, as well as any violent or erotic content, and depictions of homosexual activity. 100,000 users have signed up the first month. "In two years we hope to get to 10 million users in Brazil. In a month we have had 100,000 and in two we are expecting a big increase thanks to a mobile phone app," Barros says. Acir dos Santos, the mayor, adds: "Our network is global. We have bought the Faceglory domain in English and in all possible languages. We want to take on Facebook and Twitter here and everywhere."

Comments

All possible languages?

[Radak]

$ whois faceglory.fi
 
Domain not found

To be fair, Finnish is an impossible language.

Re:All possible languages?

[Radak]

I would have thought that was already a fetish site.

Re:All possible languages?

[Radak]

Fine.

$ whois kasvotkunia.fi
 
Domain not found

Re:All possible languages?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm excited for what's on offer at faceglory.cx

Re:All possible languages?

[Radak]

If you want to be that nickpicky about something that was supposed to be a joke in the first place, I'll note that kasvotkunnia.com does not exist either (Faceglory's primary domain is a .com). And I'll also note that querying TLD registrar databases using the whois tool will return results for all domains that have been registered (i.e. bought), not just those that are, to use your word, "active".

Re:All possible languages?

[NotDrWho]

I feel so sorry for the poor SOB who has to try to censor the porn from the Japanese site. He'll be encountering shit that will shake his soul to the core.

'Faceglory'

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds a bit like some sort of sexual activity.

Internet without evangelicals = Win

[morcego]

Oh, I do hope they all move to facegloria, and leave us all alone.
Better yet, they should make an internet of their own.

Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win

[spiritplumber]

I'm very much nonreligious but approve of initiatives like the Christian State Project or Free State Project. As long as there's no secession/sedition, if people want to live a certain way, let them live that way. And maybe they'll come up with clever ideas that the rest of us can apply.

Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win

[Tablizer]

they should make an internet of their own.

RaptureNet

with pop-up ads that say, "Sinned too much? Stay out of Hell for just 7 easy payments of $49.95 a month! And for an extra $10.00 a month, we won't even tell your church! All diddling, screwing, lying, or cheating can be removed from your heavenly record Now Now Now!"

Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win

[Tablizer]

Such is already happening with say Fox News, and all media for that matter. Before we only had a few media outlets available who served a kind of generic middle-of-the-road view because they had to cater to a wide audience. Now people can easily choose to see and hear only what they want, and the news media is niche-ifying.

Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win

[morcego]

You know what they say: Small churches, big business.

Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win

[Anonymous Coward]

You're obviously not familiar with the Cult of Reason during the French Revolution or the Cristero War in Mexico or the USSR anti-religious campaign.

Oh, you mean Christians haven't been persecuted here.

Well given the left's history, I'm sure they'll get around to it.

Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win

[goose-incarnated]

they should make an internet of their own.

RaptureNet

with pop-up ads that say, "Sinned too much? Stay out of Hell for just 7 easy payments of $49.95 a month! And for an extra $10.00 a month, we won't even tell your church! All diddling, screwing, lying, or cheating can be removed from your heavenly record Now Now Now!"

You joke, but I (as a long-standing atheist) am quite curious to see how a facebook-for-evangelicals turns out. There are many questions that could be answered by examining faceglory(sp?). For example,

Evangelising, by definition, needs the target party to be a non-believer; what happens when the entire audience are believers? When you are literally preaching the message to the choir?

What happens in an echo chamber of significant size? Is there some madness event horizon that occurs when too many people do more socialising on godnet than on internet?

What would this madness event horizon look like? Does the group fracture? Wage war on another christian group?

For individual participants, does it reinforce the belief, reduce the belief or not affect belief at all?

For group participants, does regular participation reinforce the group structure?

Will it lead to more orthodox religious beliefs of the participants, or will they mostly just be another group with a shared belief.

etc etc etc

Re: Internet without evangelicals = Win

[qe2e!]

I just had a friend lose a contract over the fact he worked with gay weddings. He actually made out like a bandit and got to keep a large deposit -- he donated it, posted his story of attempted persecution, and the story went viral and business is BOOMING. If you find a story of fundamental homosexuals beating up christian because he looked too square, I'd love to hear it.

Re:Internet without evangelicals = Win

[AmiMoJo]

The problem is that they tend to ignore the human rights of children in places like that. Cutting parts of their bodies off, refusing to give them a proper education, causing them mental illnesses with horrific stories and threats from X-rated books etc.

Children have rights and are not property. Religious people can do what they like, as long as their children's rights are respected.

Re: Internet without evangelicals = Win

[alexgieg]

participating in a gay wedding ceremony is very much against many people's reasonable interpretation of religious commandments.

Not, it's a blatant refusal to obey Jesus' extremely clear commandment:

"(...) whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. (...) Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; (...) And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?" (Matthew 5:39-47)

In other words, for the analogy-impaired, I'll rephrase the above:

"And whosoever shall compel thee to bake a cake, bake him twain."
"And whosoever shall compel thee to arrange them a bouquet, arrange them twain."
"And whosoever shall compel thee to take 100 photos, take 200."

And so on, and so forth.

Pretty clear, eh? Those refusing service to "sinners" aren't only breaking the law, and morals, and ethics, they are also themselves sinning against their God's will.

Good luck to them

[greenreaper]

I'm sure Facebook will claims the use of the term "Face" infringes their trademark.

Seen this before.

[SuricouRaven]

The 'Christian version' is a pretty common concept.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...

It'll fail, I expect, for the same reason that most social networks fail: They depend on users to draw users, so it's very hard to get them established. For every Facebook, there are thousand Orkuts.

Re:Seen this before.

[ldobehardcore]

Ironically enough, Orkut was VERY popular in Brazil for several years with millions of users.

Another POS website

[Anonymous Coward]

Just registered. No verification whatsoever and it accepted "qwerty" as the password. No https. Not a far fetch to think this site commits other basic security faux pas, too. Easy prey for hackers.

How does shit like this get publicity? It looks like a first project for someone just starting in web development.

Re:I can only prey

[SeaFox]

I don't think there's any reason to hunt them down.

"On Facebook you see a lot of violence and porn"

[Morpeth]

Hmmmm, really? They must be on a different FB, mine is filled with friends on vacation, pics of their kids, and kittens... lot and lots of kittens.

Sounds like they've been making a lot of effort into finding all this sinful porn and violence on FB...

Re:Blacklist, please!

[bickerdyke]

No matter what language it is in, it is not in "Brazilian"

Re:Brazilian evangelicals are for cows.

[Zontar The Mindless]

Nonononono... Once again you've failed to localise properly. Try this:

Vocês todos são vacas. Vacas dizer mú. MÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚ! MÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚÚ! Múúúúú vacas MÚÚÚÚÚ! Múúúú dizer as vacas. VOCÊ VACAS!!

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domains

[lkcl]

i'm surprised it's not called "faithbook.com"