Sounds like the real basis of a class action fraud lawsuit.

I asked, in jest, if they were running a ponzi scheme, but if in fact they are taking subscription money and funneling it into a blackjack website, then they need to go to jail. And very well could.

Could they be that stupid? Absolutely. Abso-fucking-lutely.

If anyone has any real info on this, please contact me.

The game:
www.facebook.com/apps/application.php

Their discussion board for the game:
www.facebook.com/board.php

Facebook Privacy info:
epic.org/privacy/facebook/default.html

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The information that the application accesses includes everything about a user and what they can see, except for their contact information such as email address, phone number and postal address. The terms the user is agreeing on by clicking "add" includes examples of this information:

Examples of Facebook Site Information. The Facebook Site Information may include, without limitation, the following information, to the extent visible on the Facebook Site: your name, your profile picture, your gender, your birthday, your hometown location (city/state/country), your current location (city/state/country), your political view, your activities, your interests, your musical preferences, television shows in which you are interested, movies in which you are interested, books in which you are interested, your favorite quotes, the text of your "About Me" section, your relationship status, your dating interests, your relationship interests, your summer plans, your Facebook user network affiliations, your education history, your work history, your course information, copies of photos in your Facebook Site photo albums, metadata associated with your Facebook Site photo albums (e.g., time of upload, album name, comments on your photos, etc.), the total number of messages sent and/or received by you, the total number of unread messages in your Facebook in-box, the total number of "pokes" you have sent and/or received, the total number of wall posts on your Wall(TM), a list of user IDs mapped to your Facebook friends, your social timeline, and events associated with your Facebook profile.

Significantly, applications do not only access the information about a given user that has added the application. Applications by default get much of the information about that user's friends and network members that the user can see. So without any action from a user, an individual that has never joined any applications will have their information sent to the third party application when their friends or associates in their networks join.
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Donald Duck wears a jacket but no pants.

This is a reoccuring cause for concern in many nations but the duck continues to flaunt international opinion.

As president, what would you do about Donald Duck's refusal to wear pants?

Financial info:
valleywag.com/344975/vcs-...cebook-games

"Mark Pincus, Tribe.net founder and early Facebook investor, announced $10 million in funding from Union Square Ventures, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Bob Pittman.

The venture is called the Zynga Game Network and it's the company behind social network apps such as "casual games" Poker, Attack, and Battleship. So far, Zynga makes all its money by promoting other applications, earning 50 cents each time a user installs one on their profile.

Pincus told the New York Times Zynga has already broken even and has not yet tapped into any of its venture capital. Users click on about 50,000 links to application install pages each day."

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This one has an incorrect quote, but is worth reading anyway:
valleywag.com/357902/mark...at-feeds-him

See comments for corrected words, or see Mark's blog here:
markpincus.typepad.com/markpi...de.html