Facebook is venturing into the world of online gaming with the launch of its first application that allows users to play with real money. The game, developed by the London studio Gamesys is called Bingo Friendzy and currently only available to players within the UK aged 18 years or more.
The head of games for Europe, says Julien Codorniou betting with real money are popular and well-regulated activity in the UK. For this reason they are allowing their members to submit this game in a controlled and safe manner. Bingo is considered a social experience in our country so it makes sense to offer it in a social network, added Codorniou.
Zuckerberg and the company plans to use technology that recognizes the
age of users to prevent young people "vulnerable" to access the app, but
gave no details on how exactly they plan to do that. Is also unclear how much money you hope to gain by creating Facebook Gamesys. However, the social network takes normally about 30 percent of other transactions.
Facebook users in the United Kingdom can expect to see other
applications of betting, as it is preparing a set of slots and a poker
game designed by Zynga, both work with real money.
The online gaming is still a controversial issue in many countries so
it is unlikely to see the release of these games or in other parts of
the world in the short term.
I'm sure this surprises no one who has an account on Facebook or surf the Internet every day: the social network in the world is full of liars, and in fact, 9% of Facebook profiles are fake, it equivalent to approximately more than 80 million fake accounts, which are used for different purposes.
Accounts not only undesirable (such as spammers) are counted as false,
but also those dealing profiles companies, organizations or even on pets
are considered false accounts.
Facebook says that for this type of thing, there is the option to
create pages, and only accounts that represent humans are considered
"authentic."
To the list of types of fake accounts should also be added the
duplicate profiles, and so arrive at a total 83 million accounts.
Zuckerberg said in June that Facebook has more than 955 million active users, but obviously the real are around 870 million.
