It's not a game any more.
From an article last week in The Wall Street Journal ...
"Some of the most widely used apps on Facebook—the games, quizzes and sharing services that define the social-networking site and give it such appeal—are gathering volumes of personal information.
A Wall Street Journal examination of 100 of the most popular Facebook apps found that some seek the email addresses, current location and sexual preference, among other details, not only of app users but also of their Facebook friends. One Yahoo service powered by Facebook requests access to a person's religious and political leanings as a condition for using it.
The popular Skype service for making online phone calls seeks the Facebook photos and birthdays of its users and their friends......a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app.
An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy. "
With thanks to Bob Hoffman at Hoffman Lewis for pointing this out in his blog, The Ad Contrarian.
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