Facebook's new platform personalizes the web by sharing user data

Vinoth · Top Commenter (signed in using Hotmail)
You clowns really going to give real-money through your Paypal and your credit card info to Facebook?

The Complaint:

- In December 2009, Facebook changed its website so certain information that users may have designated as private — such as their Friends List — was made public. They didn’t warn users that this change was coming, or get their approval in advance.
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Stephanie Robesky · Top Commenter · San Francisco, California
My "bet" is that they will do this with Betable who had opened up their gaming license and created an API to plug into... Anyone? $10? ;)

Alex Weston Lin · Top Commenter · Co-Founder/Generalist at LVL6
im curious to see if betable IS behind this.

Chris Griffin · UPenn
;)

Tadhg Kelly · Top Commenter · Author at What Games Are
This screams PR nightmare to me.

Firstly: Facebook has many under-18 users and they will not be able to keep them from seeing gambling in the site.

Secondly: Geographical screening (to keep out Americans, for example) is not easy to get right.
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Tech-Entrepreneur.me
Heads up for entrepreneurs on the UK and abroad to start developing cool gambling (and related) apps and services :)

Kameko Oliver · Atlanta, Georgia
Facebook is looking to jump that shark I see.

Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
they want everything to be passed through them now, kinda getting creepy

George Adams
AOL 2.0

Eric M. Davis · Top Commenter
While this could be a smart fiscal decision for FB, this might be very dangerous, and in the end spoil FaceBook. While I am a fan of legalized gaming in regulated environments, I do believe that online gaming is prone to hacking, and exploits people with addictive personalities. That all aside I think it is a slippery slope that Facebook is walking.

Peter Schott · San Francisco, California
Everything is prone to hacking, and addiction is a personal problem (though most sites / casinos have resources for people with a problem). That being said, I agree that this is dangerous ground. There is still a lot of learning to be done about the online gambling industry.

Mark McCollum · Fairfax, Virginia
Global Revenues that will surpass google! 1 billion "actual" users very soon and imagine a high tech company making billions in net profit prior to IPO..The only haters out there are those who FB would not hire or ex-googlers :) Creating jobs all around the world! Thank you FB!

Pat Chua
So you also want that 1 billion 'actual' users to play "regardless" of age?

I think the law bodies would be in for the paperworks.
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Joe McMackin · Top Commenter · University of California, Santa Barbara
I think Its highly likely zynga will be one of these operators. They have offices in the UK and zynga is also setup well to offer poker in the US if and when it's legalized. I think this changes both Facebook's and zynga's ipo prospects a ton.

Jeff Manning · Charlotte, North Carolina
While this might pay off financially, this certainly won't buy Facebook any goodwill, and I think it's getting away from their DNA. There are tons of ways to monetize, and becoming a platform for gambling is not the way to do it.

Nirmal Dayaramani · King at Jobless land
Good for Facebook (financially), but not for users who are already addicted to it!

Dennis Orji
Facebook trying to move away from its core business and jump into gambling?

Avery D'Alessandro · San Francisco, California
And soon, we'll be able to buy our kale and cocaine too from Zuckerberg.

Praveen Sethiya
Going to be huge and epic hopefully.

Darryl Bayliss · Mackay, Queensland
Can see this going down hill fast!

Monish Syed · Jodhpur
they are planning big...

MaDdy Madman
not big ,,, HUGE man .. HUGE !!
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