Facebook and Fascism. How Propoganda Will Help The Company Take Over Germany

by Jason Wilk on September 25, 2008

  • Facebook is losing its battle to its german clone StudiVZ.de.
  • Facebook, who has had a german translated site for 7 months now has only 800,000 German users compared to StudiVZ’s 10m.
  • FB had 1.8m uniques in August, up from 545k in March. StudiVZ had 13.7m uniques in August, up from 6.5m in March.
  • Facebook, aside from a long standing lawsuit with StudiVZ is taking it to the streets with a leader in propoganda (PR), Smaboo.
  • Smaboo is hiring Facebook ‘Ambassadors’, to organize group events for Facebook in Berlin and Munich, rewarding whichever events convert the most people into FB users.
  • Funny enough, StudiVZ used this tactic at universities when they first launched to try and win over users.
  • This is not a very innovative and effective approach for Facebook who is kidding themselves if they think that local parties set up by users will score them  9 million users.

If this doesn’t work, will the Facebook squad start knocking on doors looking for StudiVZ users in hopes for world dimination?

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  • George Jr.
    These fascist pricks willl never learn. Who does Zuckerberg think he is, hitler?
  • MarcTheMan
    I think that Facebook will be able to get these guys to desist and all will be fine in Germany. Maybe they should just make them a good offer. Pay them $1 a user and be done with it. You win germany for $10mil
  • glu
    @George Jr. - easy there George Jr. Let's keep it civil.
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