Facebook and Fascism

• 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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