Facegloria was set up to serve those who find billionaire entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg’s version sinful.SAO PAULO, July 4 – Fluffy clouds waft across a blue sky as you log in and while you chat with friends, Gospel music rings out: welcome to Facegloria, the social network for Brazilian Evangelicals.
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Swear words are forbidden, along with violent or sexual content, in the hopes of creating a better experience for users.
He added that he hopes all Evangelical Christians will eventually switch to Facegloria, and reach 10 million users in Brazil in a matter of two years.
“We want to take on Facebook and Twitter here and everywhere”.
As stated by AFP, that the Faceglory domain has been bought in “all possible languages”, and could be available all over the world in the future.
A screenshot of Facegloria’s login page, July 6, 2015.
The company was founded by three members of staff working for the mayor of the city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, who has since used US$16,000 of his own money to back the site.
One thing that the site has going for it is that instead of liking posts, users say “amen”.
Acir dos Santos, the mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, is expecting the evangelical website to be as successful on Earth as it is in heaven.
Barros is positive about the popularity of his network he has described to be “morally and technically better than Facebook”.
If it’s going to happen, Brazil is probably the ideal place for a Christian social network to begin.
Evangelism has been growing in Brazil, and today 42 million Brazilians out of the 202 million population identify as Evangelicals. If this rate of change continues, evangelicals are expected to outnumber Catholics by 2040.
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Given its strict Christian values, all material relating to homosexuality is also banned. In 2013, a site called Ummaland was launched and it’s designed for Muslim users.
