Maybe Mark Zuckerberg Should Listen to These Canadian Hipsters
He’s been been trying for years to build a marketplace on Facebook. In Toronto, the in-crowd gathers on the Bunz Trading Zone, which started life on, yes, Facebook.
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When Facebook rebooted its buy-and-sell Marketplace earlier this month, miscreants lost no time circumventing the company’s algorithmic filters and posting banned merchandise, from used underwear and weed to baby hedgehogs. It was just the latest setback for the social network’s longstanding effort to turn its community of 2 billion souls into a giant shopping bazaar.
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg should take a cue from the Canadian hipsters who created the Bunz Trading Zone.