Social Media Applications Are Not always as Described!

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Have you ever been hit with a rogue application on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media sites? I was, and the application was called “Photas”.

The world is not always as it seems. This often goes double for third party applications for social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. I see it all the time when somebody falls for another app that will spam all of their friends. It never happens to me, because I generally stick to only a few known applications, but it happened to me today. A Facebook application titled “Photas” said that somebody has tagged me in a photo. Well, I checked it out, and sure enough, it was false. There was no photo of me. Instead, it sent out the same message to all of my friends. When they allowed the app, the life cycle is complete.

Just a simple warning for you: Think before you click … and beware of “Photas” on Facebook!

Has this ever happened to you? Tell us about it … leave a comment!

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Joseph Alexander Nagy Junior

Definitely. Photas isn't the first rogue app that I've come across. There was indeed another rogue app, possibly put there by FB admin (I honestly cannot see it happening any other way), called "Un named app". Whatever else it did, it would slow down the loading of your profile page (for that app, under app settings, select added to profile and scan for it).

While I'm not big on Apple's app approval process (they basically decide not only what will work on the iPhone, but decide on whether or not it will be popular enough to warrant inclusion), I think some approval process should be implemented, though I don't want paid FB staff in on it.

Mark Aaron Murnahan

The Unnamed App was just an error that occurred on Facebook, and it was not malicious. It did, however create a frenzy. Here is an article about it on CNN:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/27/facebook...

I always try to be cautious, but who doesn't want to see what photo they were tagged in? LOL

An approval process is often criticized for limiting creativity or being "big brother", but there are some good points to the idea as well. A lot depends on how much damage control Facebook and other sites are willing to handle after the fact. Twitter, for one, has been a little relaxed about fixing problems. Others are much quicker to pull the plug.

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