How Do 'Free' Games Help Facebook Take Money Out Of Our Pockets?

According to a media report, Facebook was supposed to trick parents and their children to pour money in free games.

The revelation hailed from some records including secret strategies, emails by its workers, internal memos, and a class-action lawsuit. The company was said to offer friendly games to its users to surge the revenues.

For further information, the report also specified a lawsuit that happened 7 years ago, in 2012. Reasons behind this lawsuit had a connection with a boy, under the age of 12, who had been addicted to Ninja Saga on Facebook and spent about $1,000 (equivalent to Rs 71,365) on the free online game.

As such, he played Ninja Saga from 2010 to 2014. That means within the 4-year duration, the game and Facebook received the not-small amount from his parents’ pocket. In addition, up to now, a lot of other correlative details have not been revealed.

In another survey conducted by Facebook itself, many users as parents were entirely unaware that some kinds of sensitive personal information such as the credit card numbers were being stored in the data storage of the renowned social networking company.

The Reveal also uncovered another truth that may make parents shocked, and of course, upset: their children could make any bank transfer by the credit card which had been entered a password on this platform one time before. The other forms of verification were also unnecessary in this case.

In other words, when users play any ‘free’ games or apps on Facebook, they may be not actually ‘free’ as you think. Be careful with all your transfers on this social network, and you should learn to control how your children are using Facebook, as well as other similar apps to waste money on nothing.