Nov.28.2006 Bootleg German Facebook
Man of the people that I am, I checked Technorati tonight to find out what folks are searching for in blogland. At #1, above “Britney Spears,” “Lindsay Lohan,” “Zune,” “Britney,” “Michael Richards,” and “Lindsey Lohan,” I found something called “studivz.” Everything is in German. I’ll spare you the exposition and cut to the chase. Studivz is a social networking site that has explicitly designed itself as a bootleg Facebook. Here’s Studivz:
Everything blue on Facebook is red on Studivz. The former’s handsome mascot has been turned into a Microsoft Paint job, or perhaps a Mii. The sites’ fonts are similar, Facebook’s poking is copied and renamed “gruscheln,” and error messages on Studivz include the directory “fakebook.” I was completely unaware of this. While I sit on my bed picking out dirt under my toenails, the internet rumbles over Studivz so loudly that the site ends up in Der Spiegel (think Time, but German).
Anything you could possibly want to know about this is covered in the Studivz Encyclopedia. Also, the site’s creators appear to have created a satirical newspaper in the visual template of an infamous Nazi publication. I’ll stick to the Magnetbox/Sorny schtick, thanks.
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