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Re:Show HN: BuddyHack - Mess with your friends' Facebooks by peterhunt on Sunday September 16, 2012 @02:41PM (#4529914)
Hey guys - I'm one of the FB engineers at Penn. This app has a great looking design but definitely goes against the spirit of the platform as well as our TOS.

With that said, next time please seek us out at the hack (I have a hard time believing anyone OK'd this) and we can work with you to ensure that your app can be funny but still benefit users in a meaningful way.

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Re:Show HN: BuddyHack - Mess with your friends' Facebooks by gailees on Sunday September 16, 2012 @02:53PM (#4529952)
Clarification: FB representatives here only ok'ed the use of our flavors concept, not the spirit of our app.

While setting a facebook flavor alone isn't against the Facebook TOS, we realize that directly encouraging people to jump on their friends' Facebooks is clearly against the spirit of the platform.

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