Facebook: Top Friends Application Suspended
Although this may come as old news to some people, others may not have even yet noticed it.
On the 26th of June the Top Friends application was suspended due to a security and privacy breach. A week prior to it’s suspension I actually took some time to look into it and how it functioned and actually found it to be quite an interesting application. Although like many others it did strike me as odd when you could see the relationship status, interests and some other profile information of people who were set to private and didn’t have myself as a friend. This of course wasn’t on their actual profile instead on a sub-profile which was attached to the application where it would display basic information, the users display picture and other applications.
After looking around on the internet and news sites it seems that it will not be re-enabled until the security and privacy breach is fixed. I can’t yet find a place which states when this actually will be fixed.
Cnet Article:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9977762-7.html
Mashable Article:
http://mashable.com/2008/06/26/top-friends-disappear-facebook/
on July 6th, 2008 at 11:56 am
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