A snark for my F*c*book friends

By now, you already know that every time you allow a F*c*book quiz or game to access your profile, you are giving the authors of that application access to not only your own private data, but also all of your friends’ private data, too.

What do you get in exchange for all this private information? The ability to spam your friends by sending them make-believe alcoholic drinks? The chance to waste time tending a fictional farm? Understanding the meaning of your life by finding out what Gilligan’s Island character you are? Is that really how highly you value your privacy, and the privacy of your friends?

Having done projects for spammers online marketers in the past, it didn’t take me long to see the need to block as many of these viral data-mining tools as possible. Recently I reached a milestone. Thanks to you, my friends, I have had both the opportunity and the need to block over a thousand F*c*book applications, and I’m still blocking more every day (1,013 at last count).

Here’s the full listing of the apps I've blocked. I am posting the entire list so that you can see the critically important applications you traded your, my, and all your friends’ privacy for. I hope it was worth it.

Please look through the list. I hope you’ll find it enlightening.

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