New Facebook Places Logo Is A "4." In A Square. Yeah.

Alexia Tsotsis

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Thursday, August 19th, 2010


On the left is the logo for Facebook’s newly launched geolocational product Facebook Places, on the right is the logo for the current leader in the space Foursquare. Notice anything interesting?

So Facebook, between the hoodie, the gong and this I’m starting to think you guys are just baiting me. And while I do not think this was intentional, I’m once again way too sober to opine. I’ll let our resident MobileGear humorist Greg Kumparak take it from here:

“Bahaha. It’s a 4. In a square. And on that night, tongue and cheek were reunited.”

H/T: Tim Shey

Update: And because Foursquare shouldn’t have all the fun, here’s Sean Percival’s Gowalla-inspired homage …

More about Facebook Places:

Company: Facebook
Website: facebook.com
Launch Date: February 1, 2004
IPO: NASDAQ:FB

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...

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