Finding it boring to chat and keep track of friends’ feeds on Facebook, are you? Wanting for something more interesting to do with your list of contacts? How does the business of trading them sound?
If you have quite a few friends on Facebook, FriendFolio, which has its official launch tomorrow, wants to be your guide as to how much they’re worth. Launched by London-based application builder BAPPZ, FriendFolio does on the Web precisely what investors in the real world cannot do, which is: buy, sell, and trade friends. (At least not overtly, anyway.) That’s right, no more equality for all. None of that utopian, world-is-flat garbage. The developers behind FriendFolio consider if Facebook users’ right to place one another on a marketplace gauged in dollars and cents and strategize their way to higher-than-thou status.
Want to get rich? You sure can. By playing your ambition card(s) especially well with those carefully honed skills derived from countless hours passing go on within that capitalistic wonderworld called Monopoly - plus a good amount of “friendly” exploitation - you can build quite an impressive portfolio of Facebook associates through FriendFolio that the application’s developers would like to describe as nothing less than a game for “beautiful people, CEOs, and Apprentice hopefuls.”
Now, if you’ve bothered to read this far, you may have determined this to be a long-past-due April fools joke. You figure there’s really no way such an application could have actually been developed. Well, fellow Mashables, this is naught but truth we speak, we assure you. FriendFolio is as real an application as any that you’ll find on the Facebook network - albeit with 100% super fake cash. The objective is simple: you get to satisfy your passion for the twisted art of trading people.