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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
I never fell for that Farmville…
Facebook users are probably familiar with “Farmville.” I never went there but I have gotten the notices from other Facebook users that they were using the Farmville “application” on Facebook’s social media site and they had requested my help to obtain some poultry or some such farmy livestock. I was never interested enough to bother with it. I’m glad now.
It seems that Farmville and some other Facebook “apps” have been leaking private information to advertisers from their users and what have you. What you actually have is a farm fresh Facebook privacy issue.
Last year I reviewed a book called “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich. It is supposedly the story of how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. It is a mediocre book at best. The author “fictionalized” some things in the book.
There’s a fabulous new movie, “The Social Network”, about the creation of Facebook. Have you seen it? It doesn’t even mention “Farmville?”
Vick Mickunas
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