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Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

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Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

#31

An app using Facebook's API cannot delete objects not created by itself (e.g. cannot delete posts or photos). So either this requires you install a browser extension or it's fake.

I don't know much about the API, but that was my understanding as well. I just tried the game and survived. Can anyone who has had the experience of losing describe what happened?

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was a theoretical game that no one actually plays.

Last year alone four people died in the US while playing the game. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/dion-von-mays-dies-...

Incredible.

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

#34

An app using Facebook's API cannot delete objects not created by itself (e.g. cannot delete posts or photos). So either this requires you install a browser extension or it's fake.

I don't know much about the API, but that was my understanding as well. I just tried the game and survived. Can anyone who has had the experience of losing describe what happened?

I just played and lost, 'Bang, your Facebook account is being deleted'. In panic mode I was thinking I could cancel it, tried to remove Socialroulette from my authorized apps, but it was too late. Now, no account but I'm gonna try and reactive it and will you know how it goes

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

#36

An app using Facebook's API cannot delete objects not created by itself (e.g. cannot delete posts or photos). So either this requires you install a browser extension or it's fake.

You're right:

  You can delete a post as long as your application created the post.
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know much about the API, but that was my understanding as well. I just tried the game and survived. Can anyone who has had the experience of losing describe what happened?

I just played and lost, 'Bang, your Facebook account is being deleted'. In panic mode I was thinking I could cancel it, tried to remove Socialroulette from my authorized apps, but it was too late. Now, no account but I'm gonna try and reactive it and will you know how it goes

A word of advice: Don't play real russian roulette, as there is no "panic mode".

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

#38
post #18

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FYI "choice" is the name of a function in the random module: from random import choice if choice(range(6)): print "Try again tomorrow." else: print "Today is not your lucky day."

No one liner? Im disappointed. Did you read the commnt at the end?

    alert(Math.floor(Math.random()*5)

Re: Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was a theoretical game that no one actually plays.

Last year alone four people died in the US while playing the game. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/dion-von-mays-dies-...

Combining this with the 1 in 600 statistic of the grandparent comment, it seems like ~2000-3000 people played Russian Roulette last year. To me, that's even more astounding than the number of deaths -- although the number of deaths is certainly more tragic.
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