A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from October 24, 2020
Disgracebook (disgrace + Facebook)

Facebook is a popular global social networking website. Some people who don’t like Facebook have nicknamed it “Disgracebook” (disgrace + Facebook).
   
“wonders if disgracebook is down?” was posted on Twitter by Matthew Matheson on March 9, 2008. “@elissastein - twitter is definitely better than Disgracebook!” was posted on Twitter by @CreativeMF on January 26, 2009. “Disgracebook” was entered in the Urban Dictionary on February 18, 2009.
     
   
Wikipedia: Facebook, Inc.
Facebook, Inc. (stylized as FACEBOOK) is an American social media conglomerate corporation based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his fellow roommates and students at Harvard College, who were Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, originally as TheFacebook.com—today’s Facebook, a popular global social networking website. Facebook is one of the world’s most valuable companies. It is considered one of the Big Five technology companies along with Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Google.
     
Twitter     
Matthew Matheson
@DJmattmatheson
wonders if disgracebook is down?
8:07 AM · Mar 9, 2008·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
@CreativeMF
@creativemf
Replying to @elissastein
@elissastein - twitter is definitely better than Disgracebook!
7:15 PM · Jan 26, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
Paisano®
@Paisano
New York Post headline over Zuckerberg’s $65 million settlement? “DisgraceBook!”
5:07 PM · Feb 10, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Urban Dictionary
disgracebook
What people who are embarrased to have facebook, call facebook.
(...)
by Spankberrycherry February 18, 2009
         
Twitter 
Yashraj Akashi (YSA)
@yashrajx
Facebook = Disgracebook = http://thedisgracebook.net/
12:15 PM · Feb 23, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter       
HD
@300pockets
loves the term “disgracebook”
8:50 PM · Mar 3, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
Paisano®
@Paisano
Depending on who your friends are and the photos they share, Facebook too easily turns into DisgraceBook.
5:12 PM · Jun 17, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
Simon Kirk
@onegrumpydaddy
Disgracebook - social networking site advertising user’s embarrassing past
9:37 PM · Dec 27, 2010·TweetDeck
 
Twitter 
Detroit Bravo
@DetroitBrav
Facebook is known as Disgracebook…
9:46 AM · Nov 14, 2011·UberSocial for BlackBerry
 
Twitter
Dahni Hayden
@ResetBook
Facebook - Defacebook - Disgracebook? There is only one reason for the words written or spoken that contain… http://fb.me/20Qt287hI
5:20 PM · Nov 12, 2012·Facebook
   
Twitter
grapeswhiz
@grapeswhiz
Replying to @tlmontana
@tlmontana @smartertrader Hmmm…. stalk much?  But really, you think she’d have a Farcebook? (Barfbook, Fartbook, Disgracebook, etc.)
9:33 AM · Nov 13, 2012·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
JSteezy
@MAGAsteez
Class action lawsuits against Shitter and Disgracebook.
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Saagar Enjeti
@esaagar
· Oct 14
A line was crossed today. There is no going back twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/s…
8:09 PM · Oct 14, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
Henry Makow
@HenryMakow
Reader- “It is too bad that you could not change your site back to savethemales. Disgracebook is blocking anything and everything from your site.”
Just use http://savethemales.ca  That will take people to my homepage
4:02 PM · Oct 24, 2020·Twitter Web App

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