A bar named after Facebook has been launched in Beirut, Lebanon. The bar, which has no affiliation with the site, aims to provide visitors with a place to meet people and catch up with their friends. If this sounds anything like a normal pub, it is. The only difference is that the bars has a “uniquely Facebook ambiance” according to an article in the Lebanon Daily Star. According to the article:

The bar is unique in its quest to provide a physical space that mirrors the wildly popular social networking site. The menus are laminated screen shots of a Facebook Web page. Under the tab “Drinks” there is a list of all the shots and beers available, the blue backlighting and white furniture upstairs give the dancing and DJ area a uniquely Facebook ambiance, and the styrofoam letters on the wall that spell out the word Facebook are in exactly the same font as the now infamous Web site logo.

Also of interest is a guest book in the pub which is supposed to mimic the functionality of the Facebook wall. It is filled with comments of previous entrants to the pub that enjoyed chatting with “cool” people. The bar highlights the magnitude of the Facebook brand whether or not it accurately portrays the real life version of the social networking site. Aside from looking like Facebook, the bar is nothing more than exactly that: a bar.

People enter regularly and do the same thing they do at any other bar or pub: socialize and drink. No word yet on if any drunken photos taken at the pub have ended up on Facebook but the irony of posting photos taken in the Facebook bar on Facebook for your friends to see is too much for me to handle.