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Facebook Isn’t A Social Network. And Stop Trying to Make New Friends There

Source: TechCrunch

Sep 15, 2008

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A controversy is brewing over a popular Facebook application called PackRat, where users collect sets of illustrated cards for points and levels. The company behind the application, Alamofire, says that users generate up to 500 daily page views per day on the application trying to hunt down the right card to complete a collection.

A big part of the game is “stealing” cards from friends, and so a lot of users add other users as friends so that their cards can be obtained. The application’s popularity has also led some users to create Facebook accounts for the sole purpose of playing the game.

Some of those accounts are now being disabled by Facebook, according to this discussion forum on the application site.

What’s curious is the email sent from Facebook to one deleted user, which states that Facebook isn’t a social network (it’s a “social utility”) and isn’t meant to build large groups of new friends. Instead, Facebook is meant to reinforce “pre-existing” social connections:

Please note that Facebook accounts are meant for authentic usage only. This means that

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Comments (3)

Quinny,

Sep 15, 2008

Understanding the technical difference between a "social utility" and a "social networking" site is far from rocket science. That said, aren't non-technical users - the vast majority of internet users - confused enough?

Interesting take by Facebook

Emmravalimanana,

Sep 15, 2008

No. I see facebook is a social networking and I can say it's an excellent social networking because, you can meet from there all of the power people from around the world. Some people teach everything for free and some others learn for free. So there are the good system but I don't know if the system is balanced! Only, I see behind facebook's application, there are a big corrupt because some applications don't get correctly "you see that to the different application's games"! I hate that because I want just to play different game not playing for being star with, lol!!!
Sure, some people use and exploit the informations of the others and buy them. Some others add to exists applications your informations and tell that it's the application from facebook and sure they will sell with a new system the application in saying for example Mozart had some others articles never edited so many people interested on it!
I go there especially for teaching everything as I can and learning too if I could AND rather to support some differents causes. So, about informations taking for others, no my problem! Except if anyone use my pictures, I'm FURIOUS!!!!
I would want earning money with the correct way! Working-Money not Playing-Money!