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New service has been in development since last year and should compete Secret
The Facebook should launch in the coming weeks, a new service that will allow the anonymity of its users. According to the newspaper The New York Times , the team’s social network works as a standalone application that will invest in a strategy contrary to the most popular social network in the world, with over 1.3 billion registered, adopts by requiring people to use their real names on their profiles on the social network
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With the new app, however, the company can explore an alternative. According to the newspaper, the project is led by Josh Miller, product manager who joined Facebook after the acquisition of startup Branch, focused on small groups of online discussion. The new app, according to sources close to the company, would be in development since last year. The idea is to allow people to discuss any topic on the Internet without exposing your identity.
It is still unclear what kind of features the new app can offer, such as sharing photos. With the new app, Facebook should compete with other popular platforms that allow anonymity, as the site Reddit and the Secret application. The latter came to be among the most downloaded apps in Brazil, but ended up being blocked by Justice , as a means to curb offenses to third parties.
In recent weeks, Facebook has faced protests the drag queen community in San Francisco, California, who demanded the right to use their ‘social names’ instead of real names when using the social network. After company executives meet with the protesters, Facebook made an exception to allow gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders use the names they adopted instead of actual to subscribe to the service.
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Origin: girls compare University (2003)
In October 2003, four students (Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin Brazilian) from Harvard University in the United States, develop a network dedicated to the task of comparing almost childish college girls, choosing the most attractive. The Facemash is a success: in four hours, attracts 450 visits and displays photos of students 22,000 times. The project encourages Zuckerberg to create Thefacebook.com.
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