Comments on: Oregon Trail Facebook app to be replaced with dating service

The somewhat popular Oregon Trail Facebook application has been acquired by SpeedDate.com and will be turning into a dating application in the coming days.

[strife_caecus]

I was first puzzled when I first received this notification today. I almost thought it was some sort of Facebook Notification spam. However, since I wasn't really playing the game to begin with, I simply removed it from my list of applications.

Still, it's a little weird to have an application suddenly switch from a game about fording the river and not losing your oxen to an application that's supposed to help me score chicks...

[EnderW22]

This isn't the first time.. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/12/speeddate-hijacks-facebook-users-with-a-bait-and-switch/

[JeffPom]

Pardon my french, but...

***?

This makes no sense at all. I don't care if it's a knock off - it still, does not make any sense at all.

It would be like EA Sports buying the rights to Microsoft Word, and the next time I open up word - it has been updated and is now Madden 2009.

It don't make sense. While it may be legal, it's not right. At least stay within the original idea of the app for crying out loud!

[aka_tripleB]

Facebook should not let someone buyout an app then completely retool it to something completely different than the one you approved to have access to your information. That is a completely unacceptable behavior from Facebook. Apps should not have the same access to your information after being bought out without your explicate approval. I may end up removing all apps from my Facebook page and use it purely as a communication tool so I will no longer have to deal with unapproved parties from gaining access to my page. Let's face it. This isn't the first time an app was tranformed to SpeedDate.com, nor was the first time that it was given unrestricted access to most people's pages. And this isn't likely to be the last if things aren't changed on Facebook about who can access your info and what happens after an app changes. Facebook should also allow you to see what you're getting before you give anyone access to your info.

[troutsoup]

and we all remember how up front and honest facebook was about beacon?