# Sendible: "inspired by" Facebook By [colin test again](https://paragraph.com/@colin-test-again) ยท 2008-07-01 --- I [came across a post](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/schedule_social_network_messages_with_sendible.php) this morning about a new service called [Sendible](http://sendible.com). The basic idea is this: create messages of various types (email, sms, twitter tweets, facebook messages, etc) in advance, then sit back and relax as they get sent out right on schedule. Interesting idea -- apparently there are a few [other](http://hellotxt.com/) [services](http://www.tweetlater.com/) out there who do something similar -- not something I knew I needed, but intriguing enough that I decided to give it the old college try. This isn't a post about how Sendible works; I wasn't even able to get that far. This is a post about inspiration and, dare I say, plagiaration. What struck me from my first interaction with sendible was the remarkable likeness it bore to Facebook, in terms of visual design. Take, for example, the login screen: ![](http://wrkng.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sendible-small1.jpg "sendible-small") I thought: "Wow, those look a lot like the Facebook blue buttons. Interesting... perhaps Facebook is inspiring some sort of standardization in UI elements". Then, I thought: "Wow, look at the sidebar over on the right side; that kinda looks like Facebook too. Lemme take a look": ![](http://wrkng.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/facebook-small1.jpg "facebook-small") That was enough to get me thinking, and mentally prepare this blog post. But I waited and decided to give Sendible a little more time. Next stop: my homepage: ![](http://wrkng.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sendible-home-small1.jpg "sendible-home-small") Maybe it's just me, but I was again really blown away by the near exact likeness this (albeit in reverse) that this bears to Facebook: ![](http://wrkng.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/facebook-home-small1.jpg "facebook-home-small") Of course, I'm all for "fake it till you make it" and "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," but this seems to take it perhaps just a step too far. At least make it green or orange! Thoughts? Now, time to me to get back to the real business of deciding whether or not I need a message scheduler in my life... --- *Originally published on [colin test again](https://paragraph.com/@colin-test-again/sendible-inspired-by-facebook)*