Explanation of Facebook Apps
Say you’re at the mall. There’s a little table with survey forms. You pick up one of the surveys. It reads: “Tell us who your friends are, where you went to school, when your birthday is, whether you’re in a relationship (and with whom), what your interests are, what causes you support, your sex, (continued on back)” At that point you realize the form is several pages long. At the end of it it says “Also, please allow us to contact you by email FOR ANY REASON WE WANT, including ads that we tailor to your personal info.” Now you’re getting excited. What can I win? A vacation to Paris? A new Lexus? A PRIVATE JET?! I mean, this is a LOT of info to give a stranger, right? The payoff must be AWESOME!
So you read the sign on the front of the table. It says “Fill out one of our forms, and we will tell one of your friends you wish you could hug him or her / send one of your friends a PRETEND cup of coffee / ask him or her, on your behalf, what Simpsons character he or she is most like / etc.”
Do you fill out the form?
Friends: This. Is what. You are doing. When you accept a Facebook app request.
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July 1st, 2010 at 03h55
HATE the damn things. I’ve been known to delete people from my friends list for doing that repeatedly.
July 8th, 2010 at 20h14
Does that mean you don’t want 2 nails and 5 boards to help you build your Japanese barn in Farmville?