Besides the fact that I think Facebook is an ingenious application for connecting people, I think the applications which can be added on top of it is an utter load of crap. Its annoying, intrusive and could probably cost you your privacy!
I am so sick and tired of people inviting me to join causes and groups, and above all to join those stupid games such as Farmville, Fishville, Mafia Wars and who knows what else. It could still be justified if my unemployed friends were wasting their time on these senseless applications, but the people who invite me are actually employed. These are people with jobs, who waste their employees’ time & money, for what? To get scammed?
Don’t be fooled in thinking that these applications are harmless! In a recent article on MyDigitalLife also exposed that these third party application sell advertising and “money” (the game currency which lets you exchange real cash for digital currency, in order to buy nifty things for their farms for example). You grant these application access to your personal information, which may be targeted for advertising purposes at a later stage! If you’re alarmed at any of these facts, go and read the article mentioned, and make sure that you know exactly what you do when you grant third party applications access to your profile on Facebook.
Also, please think twice before you send that invitation to your friends! Not everyone is willing to offer up their privacy, and it gets pretty annoying to “Ignore” tons of these games requests.
There have been other similar sites which were never so popular. Obviously they weren’t the same as Facebook, but still. I don’t get it.
