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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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By bjf
October 20, 2010 10:49 AM | Link to this
You should write a book, Victor. I enjoy reading your column as much as just about anything these days.
By TRS
October 20, 2010 12:02 AM | Link to this
@LMJ - thanks for checking. There was spam galore. Would think they could monitor comments as Vic does and but that probably is a cost issue. Sorry to use your blog Vic but the editors haven’t communicated anything. Thanks to you as well
By victor mickunas
October 19, 2010 7:30 PM | Link to this
Thanks, LMJ~I did notice this past Sunday that when my book review column ran on-line that there was not a comment function any longer. I assumed it was an anomaly. That does make sense. The last few weeks I have noticed advertising spam in the comments section. That is an indication that sophisticated spamming operations were actually hiring people to type in the codes for posting comments then spamming their ads. That’s an unfortunate thing. Hopefully, this will deter some of that, at least for the short term….
By lmj
October 19, 2010 6:47 PM | Link to this
Ask and ye shall receive (from my editor at the Springfield News Sun): We were getting spammed too much; turned it off altogether and will keep it that way possibly for several months. We post stuff on facebook and let people go nuts there. lmj again - I had noticed a bunch of comments about going to other websites to buy products.
By lmj
October 19, 2010 6:40 PM | Link to this
I originally signed up for both Facebook and Twitter since the Ohio Library Council was disseminating information through these two avenues. I’ve had invitations for a number of things including Farmville, my color and other things I can’t recall but I always balked because to access those things required me to give information I wasn’t able to give. I’ll ask my editor about the loss of comments to articles. Springfield News Sun (same company) is doing the same thing.
By victor mickunas
October 19, 2010 5:48 PM | Link to this
Mafia Wars is another Facebook “app” I have never looked into, TRS. In regard to your question-I don’t know the answer. Perhaps someone with knowledge will take a moment to respond to your question… I hope so…
By TRS
October 19, 2010 4:12 PM | Link to this
Have no idea what the farm or mafia stuff was all about so I never participated. Speaking of Facebook Vic - DDN took away the ability to comment on news items with the excpeiton that in some instances they refer to Facebook for comments. Any idea whats going on? DDN sure hasn’t kept anyone informed.
By vice versa world
October 19, 2010 11:22 AM | Link to this
I don’t get the concept of “Twitter” and “Facebook.” Where I come from, “privacy” was sought after and ‘following people’ was considered suspicious. Some of my ancestors were “farmers” when it meant ‘tillers of soil.’ My, my, my how our galaxy has changed…..
By Kindle user
October 19, 2010 10:50 AM | Link to this
I have seen a T-shirt that says “Nobody cares about your farm!!”. I want it!!
By We live on a farm
October 19, 2010 8:58 AM | Link to this
They conveniently left out the heartaches, disappointments, life and death aspects.
By irishguy
October 19, 2010 8:47 AM | Link to this
My mother-in-law is a farmville addict. She hijacked or created a couple of other facebook pages to expand her farm(s). I enjoyed this farmville parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBDAcOEKuI
By jim
October 19, 2010 7:27 AM | Link to this
Same here, about the Farmville requests. I also got a ton of requests from Mafia Wars players. It got so bad I had to “hide” the users. I’m thinking “Do my friends not have a life?”