Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell

[Swede]

This is why I keep getting urged to join mafia wars on facebook!




Left alone, the system really will slide into a full blown disaster. The platforms (Facebook and MySpace) are in a position to regulate this, and even have rules prohibiting some scams. But those rules are routinely ignored by developers, and are rarely enforced by Facebook and MySpace.

There can be only one reason Facebook and MySpace turn a blind eye to user protection – they’re getting such a huge cut of revenue back from these developers in advertising. If they turn off the spigot, they hurt themselves.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/