Yes, they have blocked the word Wadja from any messages and even the chat options for some time now. Facebook officially states it as a spam issue, but I think we all know better 😉 Either way, it’s no problem for us, we continue to grow on the merit of our service and free messaging. I empathize with Facebook’s position. We are talking about a company with almost 500 million invested from Venture Capital and Microsoft, and 750 on staff, so its success to become a closed walled monopoly is at stake. Blocking all and every likely competitor and innovator… Read more »

Thanks for this info on Wadja. I would really try it for its SMS feature

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I saw wadja, and opened a new account there… but wadja is just nothing infront of facebook, they have a long way to go! goodluck wadja

no it is like.. a new rider in an old race and so everyone is aware of this new rider but facebook is far form the these rookies! And applied new features techniques ideas so the members feel much more comfort in facebook. Wadja is new and following techniques instead of building new ones however there is a chance to get near facebook but that will take much time for wadja

Oooo, I think people are going to like the idea of this free SMS! Well, it’s free, so that’s what my blog is about! “free things” so gonna post it up straight away! Will leave credit to your blog though of course 🙂

Thanks a lot.

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I honestly can’t see any other site getting anywhere near facebook in popularity. They at least would face an incredible uphill struggle.

Why would I join Wadja when all me friends are on Facebook? Exactly!

First time to hear this Wadja thing. Is the sms service worldwide? I like the idea huh. But why did facebook disallow it? Don’t know the fair business practice? It’s their loss anyway.

I too would say they are a bit weary about how far wadja could go. I must say though that I am grateful to you for sharing info about wadja on your blog. I have been able to communicate with family and friends in South Africa via SMS as I cant send messages to certain countries with my mobile service provider.

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I even don’t know what to say. Strange, that facebook is doing things like that. Such actions will not do any good for its reputation!

I agree, reputation will be spoiled a bit! But maybe facebook will change its attitude to wadja, who knows…

i’m late to knowing this issue, yes, wadja have a great service, I dont see something weird on wadja, why should they blocked wadja link? hopes they can be better in the future..

@PS3. True, but what happens when the Facebook fad dies down (it will eventually, this is certain as Geocities, Friendster and MySpace before them), and then your friends leave it or stop using it altogether. A lot of my friends have already grown tired of Facebook and its spammy service. Then how will you use Facebook? The service is 100% useless without your friends on it, its a deck of cards bro. Wadja can be used with or without having friends or contacts on it (as can Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Zoho etc…), because they have a true services that gives… Read more »

That’s indeed very strange thing. Especially when they really can’t compare in popularity and i see no reason why should Facebook be afraid of Wadja. Competition is always healthy.

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Yeah, you are right about the competition, but I don’t see any between Facebook and Wadja

Mr. Clement, what plugin do you use for this comment area? I see if one comments your post, it appears (who am I) link and it shows a list of his comment. Hehe…it’s unique. I want to try it too, can you share to me?

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Ic, thanks Mr. Clement. I’m reading it and trying to install it. And one question if you don’t mind, why in my comment here doesn’t show the “Who am I?”

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yeah i’ve had this problem with another url and FB as well that i don’t remember, i doubt it would be to frustrate wadja or anything like that. apparently it might have been reported by the community as the url must have been used to excessively spam other members.

Thanks for the Wadja resource by the way,

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When there is competition, the big guys will try and do everything possible to prevent the growth of the little fellow. Wadja will slowly get loyal users and the growth may not be spectacular like Facebook’s but grow they will.

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This is the first time I ever heard of Wadja I just signed up after reading thanks.

Thanx a lot for the info. Money does lead to a lot of ugly things. I’ll certainly take a look at Wadja though I can’t promise I’ll join as I’m already on Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed inorder to promote my blog.

Good Luck Wadja 🙂

To hell both of them! Those social networks are soooo time consuming!

Brands which have an open approach to competition succeed. If google started banning yahoo and wikipedia pages, they would be hated.

It will just be a matter of time before facebook users realise the closed approach that facebook is using and then suddenly a cooler website might emerge

Just protecting their business. Facebook are so big that they can afford to be heavy-handed…

I use wadja a lot for sending sms from philippines. sad to hear about facebook

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I don’t think Facebook has anything to worry about, but they probably want to protect their business anyways just in case.

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I don’t see why facebook should fear a new social network. There are plenty of apps on facebook that will let you send free SMS. These are country specific apps sometimes.

Doesn’t matter how hard I try, I can’t move my existing friend network from facebook to myspace or orkut, I am sure the same would happen for smaller networks.

just type ‘sms’ on the search bar. .and you will find not one but many ‘Send SMS – Text Messaging’, JYGY is another one, just search and you will find many 🙂

I have used two apps for sending SMS to India and US for free. I have seen others that charge monthly fee (haven’t tried those). I haven’t tried sending SMS to other countries yet 🙂

There have been a LOT of free SMS websites and they can not survive on this alone, they need to figure out a monetization method, free SMS is just a way to inflate initial ‘numbers’. In India I saw ibibo giving out free SMS. They also had free calls for some time.

If they have a premium service as well, it makes sense. One subscriber on their paid service might be able to support 10-15 free subscribers. I don’t know of it would be incorrect, but they can use the spare 50 characters for advertisements as well.

The only catch is receiver is not agreeing to receiving promotional SMS (along with a message from a friend), they have to build an opt-out method as well.

That’s pretty strange of Facebook to do. I’ve never seen them block links to a site like this before, and it’s a little discouraging to see them try to stifle competition like this.

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wow! sending free sms all over the world! i hav to check it out 🙂

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@Alex:Too bad…if Facebook continues doing things like these, then they are indirectly scheming their own demise.

Any way to keep another site from stepping on their toes.

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May be this is because of wadja is in direct competitor list of facebook or some business issue is there

Wadja offers a great deal that facebook can’t offer any more. It’s the only option that they have left.

Facebook is not at all worried about this site; they just don’t want to link to this site. Facebook is the largest social networking site in the world recently it has over taken MySpace also. Facebook now has 170 million active users out of which 15 million changes their status daily.

So think how big is Facebook and are they need to be scared?

You know, I think I’m against free SMS and its a security issue. Here, in Russia, swindlers know how to cheat someone into giving them their cell phone numbers. Imagine, if s list of phone numbers gets into bad hands: they could make a script, and automate the process of sending spam to thousands of cell phone numbers… so developers at wadja should think of a good protection against automate sms sending.. in any case, good luck to them in building that competition to facebook (never liked it anyways 😉 )

I found this “Facebook says that Wadja is just too spammy for their clean and safe network (sarcastic tone here), so being the champions of privacy and protection for the average Joe (totally sarcastic tone) they love and care for so much, they took the initiative to block the word Wadja.com (say what???).” (http://blog.wadjaworld.com/?p=12)

I think it’s just an excuse from Facebook. They might just fear the quick growth of Wadja.

That’s interesting. I’ve never seen anything like that on Facebook. I guess it could be an underhanded tactic to lower competition
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If Face book doesn’t want to be criticized for censoring (fascism), then they shouldn’t have placed themselves as a “modern communication platform” . Can you imagine talking on the phone and certain words are covered with a beep?

I belive that in the near future Facebook will become the next Myspace:(