Deleted From Facebook for Sex?
In order to showcase some of the capabilities of our polling platform, we created a little fun game on Facebook called Sex Appeal. Nothing too controversial really: you add the app and it creates an elimination game among your friends based on their sexiness.
Your friends face off in groups of 4 and each time you pick one that you think is the sexiest among the group, who then advances to the next round. Ultimately one of your friends will be crowned the sexiest!
As you play along the game your friends get points for winning rounds and can show off their sex appeal on their profile. Simple, right? Well, maybe not! We released the application yesterday and invited some of our close friends to play. Today it started to pick up some steam (at the time of this writing we have 90 users).
But then this afternoon the Facebook account that we created the application under mysteriously went away! When we try to login to that account we get a maintenance error page but it only happens for that particular account and nobody else!
The application is still live and working, but we can’t understand why the account is unavailable! Do you think it could be because our application has Sex in it’s name?
We did a quick search on the application directory in Facebook and only two applications have the word sex in them, both of which related to the HBO show, ‘Sex and the City’. We find it peculiar that with 2000+ applications only two have sex in their names. What do you think?
If you ever created a Facebook application that mysteriously went away (or the developer’s account went away!) please let us know. We are writing to Facebook as well for an explanation and will update you when we get a response.
Update:It turns out this was just a coincidence. Our developers account is working again as of this morning. Also, our application seems to have been accepted to the Application Directory. It still doesn’t show up under search which should be because they haven’t index their directory yet. Thank you Facebook. 