Brazilian Evangelicals set up a 'sin free' version of Facebook

[tailfins]

Could it be that one day Brazil will replace the USA as the world's predominant Christian nation?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11718235/Brazilian-Evangelicals-set-up-a-sin-free-version-of-Facebook.html

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.

http://facegloria.com/index.php?r=user/auth/login

It all started three years ago when Mr Barros and three other devout Christian colleagues working at the mayor's office in Ferraz de Vasconcelos, near Brazil's financial capital Sao Paulo, decided there was a market for a squeaky-clean version of Facebook.
Given that 42 million of Brazil's 202 million people are estimated to be Evangelicals – and the fervent Protestant movement continues to make inroads into traditionally dominant Catholicism – they might be right.

However Evangelicals, who numbered just six per cent of the population in 1980, are now 22 per cent, while the Catholic total has dropped from 90 per cent to 63 per cent.
At that rate, Evangelicals will become the majority by 2040 and Facegloria hopes to be riding the wave.

"The Pentecostal message which is preached in the outskirts of cities and the favelas puts a lot of emphasis on the individual as being responsible for his behaviour if he wants help from God too.
"This kind of faith works well in cities."

"In two years we hope to get to 10 million users in Brazil. In a month we have had 100,000 and in two we are expecting a big increase thanks to a mobile phone app," he said.
Acir dos Santos, the mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, says there's no limit.

[Noir]

Sin free?
So it has zealous moderators or what?

[jimnyc]

Sin free?
So it has zealous moderators or what?

Well, if what they 'choose' is to have a sin free social network, then I doubt they should need much moderation, unless trolls intervene. Not my cup of tea of course, but I don't think people looking to be sinful and therefore needing moderation will be on there. I've been to a few religious 'forums', for example, and while they do have moderators, the only time I ever seen them moderate is when a troll arrived.

Besides, I think the point is to make it an evangelical gathering, and the 'sin free' portion is likely because it won't be like FB where people post all kinds of 'sinful' things all day long. But I don't think evangelicals will be joining such a site looking to post such things.

[Noir]

Depends on who defines the 'sin'.
I've been banned from religious boards for quoting a post a female made, and banned from another for having a Sam Harris quote in my signature.

Would be interesting to see what sins they allow and what they don't on the forum given dancing is a sin in the wrong circles...

[jimnyc]

Depends on who defines the 'sin'.
I've been banned from religious boards for quoting a post a female made, and banned from another for having a Sam Harris quote in my signature.

Would be interesting to see what sins they allow and what they don't on the forum given dancing is a sin in the wrong circles...

It would be an evangelical site, and I would think they would know what is a sin in their circles and what is not. I'm confident they would moderate similar to how one would moderate an evangelical church. I don't think this sounds like a board, inviting others for debate and such, but for a place for like minded evangelicals to congregate.