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‘Taboo’ now makes its way to Facebook, how? You know when you try to buy an ad and it is blocked if found having four-letter words (how can you advertise with four letters save for some X-rated feature or item: s) or having names of social networks; like MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, Hi5.
Surprisingly ads having AOL, Yahoo, Bebo, Google, and Microsoft go unnoticed. Perhaps because these names symbolize a wide variety of services and Facebook can’t push users into not using names like Microsoft, Yahoo or Google knowing that they are most preferred names in the business.
Alright they might be the competitors they feel threatened against what competition has an internet startup like 3Jam got to offer (keeping in view its micro funding of $4 million compared to Facebook’s $493 million). 3Jam provides SMS service that enables users send multiple text messages at once.
CEO Andy Jagoe of 3Jam thinks of it to be a crazy idea of considering them as competitors of Facebook.
Perhaps Facebook has competition phobia and is trying every possible thing to eliminate any such threat. I consider this to be pretty absurd; just think of it, isn’t it lame to do so when companies consider competition to be a reason to thrive, especially here on the web.
Is Facebook trying its hands at being FACE-ist?
Source news; Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
