Information Madness

Facebook, the most popular social networking website in the world amuses users yet again with a new Number Game built on its social networking platform. This new game displays numbers along with users’ status messages.

Launched on Wednesday, Dec 8, this number game is the latest craze on Facebook. It is a very basic game where a user asks everyone to send him private messages along with a number and then the user posts a public message on the sender’s Facebook wall along with the number.

Now since it is a public message, everyone gets to see it but only the user and the sender knows what the original message was all about. Yes, as simple as that. Now this type of Facebook game is very catchy and creates great user engagement.

Earlier, it was the ‘cartoon profile picture’ game and this time it’s a number game. The essence of these types of Facebook games is that they are simple games built on its platform and utilizes existing Facebook features like status updates, profile pictures etc. These games are viral and have a great adoption rate. And with 500 million odd users already on Facebook, it catches on like wildfire.