Facebook has Secretly Launched A Photo Sharing App 'Colorful Balloons' In China

            China is the largest internet market in the world, country have more than 700 million online users. Since 2009 Facebook has been banned in China by the Chinese government, but the Facebook Company has not willing to lose the market in the largest online market. Now the Facebook company has secretly launched an app called, ‘Colorful Balloons’, it is nothing but a photo sharing application.

            According to the newspaper report of ‘The New York Times’ that the Facebook company has started a way to enter the Chinese internet market by confidentially developing a photo sharing application and releasing that in china under the local Chinese company name called, ‘Youge Internet’.

The Colorful Balloons app has not any single sign of Facebook brand name, but has some comparable features to the social network applications. The release of the Colorful Balloons app indicates that the Facebook Company is looking to study the Chinese people’s usages like, how the Chinese internet users are interacting and sharing the contents with each other.

To prove that, The Facebook Company has said that, “We have long said that we are interested in China, and are spending time understanding and learning more about the country in different ways”. By residing in the Chinese online market, Facebook would give some tough fight for Google to reach the number one spot.

Facebook is not just the only major company that banned from china to operate from their internet space. Google, YouTube and Instagram also have been banned and restricted by the GFW (Great Firewall) of China. The Great Firewall of China is the merging of technology and legislative actions, which have been taken by the Chinese government to regulate the Internet market usage in their home and it is fully controlled by the CPC (Communist Party of China).