Bogus Facebook App – “See Your Future”

There’s a new – and bogus – Facebook App floating through the Feed.  It claims to let you “See what your face will look like in 20 years!”  Here’s what it looks like within the Facebook Feed…

Here are the first things that tipped me off:

• It starts out with “omg”
• The link is actually masked using the bit.ly URL shortening service.  While bit.ly isn’t bad (it’s actually a fantastic service!), combined with the “omg” and the following, it doesn’t look good.

The apps wants complete access to your contacts, Facebook Pages (e.g. your Business page), to post to your Wall and here’s the doozy – it wants access to Facebook Chat…

If you installed this app (or if you think you did), you should remove this app right away.  In Facebook, head to Account > Privacy Settings > Apps and Websites > Edit Your Settings.  Click Remove unwanted or spammy apps…

Find the See Your Future app and click the X to the right of it…

This is also a good opportunity to inspect the rest of the apps you have installed.  See which ones you really need.  If you don’t need it, uninstall it.  Really the only apps you would need would be obvious – e.g. HootSuite, Twitter, etc.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment below!