MENLO PARK, CA - Late this afternoon, Facebook announced that it was shutting down it’s mobile development platform, Parse.

The Facebook Venture Capital firm noted that Parse was being shut down since it was heavily based on MongoDB, a platform most Facebook developers despise.

In typical Facebook fashion, they already announced their non-relational database platform scheduled for release next week.

A Facebook developer stated, “Honestly, we just think we can do anything better than anyone, and Mongo seemed like the next best place to start.”

On a side note, Facebook is still looking for PHP developers to make any sense of their homepage code.