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...Facebook games - Mafia Wars, FarmVille, Restaurant City - have become surprisingly effective at diverting time wasters among the social-networking crowd. More than 63 million people alone play FarmVille. But now accusations have surfaced that the games can lead some more gullible players, including children, into Internet scams, especially if they have a cell phone...
...Here's how it works. You join FarmVille, a game on Facebook in which you can create a virtual farm by growing crops and livestock and tilling the earth. Through your toil, you earn virtual money, but to farm more efficiently or quickly, you can also invest real cash (through PayPal or a credit card) to buy virtual goods, such as seed or a tractor. Should you not have any real cash to spare on things that after all do not actually exist, you can instead accept an offer from one of the advertisers on the game site...
...will be billed for. If you're a kid, the mysterious charge then appears on the phone bill of the parents, who often find that phone companies will not cancel services from a third-party provider - even if the parent cannot find out who that provider is. (See five Facebook no-nos for divorcing couples...
...film, directed by David Fincher and written by The West Wing’s Aaron Sorkin, chronicles the rise of Facebook founder and former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. Among other well-known actors, the movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield...
...Facebook group was created encouraging Hopkins’ students to wear their own school apparel and to walk in the background of the filming...