LOLapps needs Facebook to survive.. but for two days, Facebook cut them off.
Now back up, it make us wonder.. Can Facebook protect your personal data and still provide all the personalization we have come to love?
The incident raises a number of issues. Try as it might, Facebook is finding that protecting privacy is easier said than done, since it must enforce its policies among more than 550,000 apps. Also, for companies such as LOLapps, the bans can come as complete surprises. LOLapps users were completely in the dark, as the apps just vanished from Facebook with no explanation. They worried that their accounts might have been permanently deleted, even though they had poured many hours into cultivating their characters.
Now it has restored them and LOLapps fans can begin playing their games again. According to AppData, LOLapps has more than 16 million monthly active users playing games such as Critter Island (pictured). But the San Francisco-based company said it has more than 150 million users if you consider all of the users who have created quizzes and personalized gift apps. Those apps show up as created by the individuals, not by LOLapps. But LOLapps can make money from those apps.
Read more at venturebeat.com
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