More Facebook News and this one is going to have a gist of almost everything I have been talking about: Farmville, mom, kid, scam, addiction, report, etc. More importantly we have got one more reason to be scared of Facebook: Losing your fortune or at least a part of it being addicted to it. The latest report states that a mom got her credit card over used and exhausted after she discovered her 12 year old son had wasted his savings to buy gifts/coins on Zynga's addictive game.
We all know that you can buy 7,500 Farmville coins for $5, which seriously is the the worst thing you can do. Sadly enough people do that and this kid was one of them. Now the mom is caught in a dilemma, she has lost her cash and she has the option to report the card stolen to reclaim cash but the result of it will prove to be quite a harsh punishment for the kid. Which means that she will have to bear with the loss and just pay the charges on her own.
Facebook on the other and has suspended the account since the kid was under 13 years. Wow, and wasn't this the same issues i had raised earlier? How is Facebook able to monitor or judge who joins the network and what age group the person is from? The result of it is kids under age, fall prey to scams readily. Of curse the kid was just having fun and most probably didn't know that he is being fleeced his mom's money. No cash is coming back to the woman, but Zynga is showing some maturity by advising mothers to keep the systems password protected to avoid such issues.
Thanks a lot both Facebook and Zynga. What I am worried about more here is how prone to danger one can be with the recent issues associated to Facebook. The kids under 13 are obviously immature and can fall prey to scammers, especially those criminal minded folks who can easily manipulate kids and rob or do something much worse
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