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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."
To be fair, Finnish is an impossible language.
Sounds a bit like some sort of sexual activity.
I'm sure Facebook will claims the use of the term "Face" infringes their trademark.
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.
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.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
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...
'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
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!"
Table-ized A.I.
You know what they say: Small churches, big business.
morcego
No matter what language it is in, it is not in "Brazilian"
bickerdyke
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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Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
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
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
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.
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.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
i'm surprised it's not called "faithbook.com"