facebook definitely mainstream now
most of us have regular routines when we get into the office each morning. more than likely it includes logging into facebook to play our turn in scrabulous. with more than half a million players, the widely addictive scrabulous modeled after the board game scrabble was created for facebook by two brothers in india. all was well until hasbro, the owner of the rights to scrabble, came along and decided they wanted a piece of the action. after unsuccessful attempts at building a player base as large as scrabulous, hasbro decided to sue the brothers. while the legal stuff is working itself out, the brothers have decided to work with facebook and block scrabulous in the united states and canada.
a few days ago another popular facebook app, superpoke! modified the list of actions one can 
send to friends after pressure from the uk based the sun on the “shank” action. the superpoke! application allows you to send different actions such as hug, kiss, same, throw an octopus, play poker with, hang ten with, make a s’more for, etc to other facebook users, all in good fun. it seems there’s a “knife-crime epidemic” in london and so the sun started a petition to have the “sick game” removed. actions such as cut, karate chop, bodyslam, go chuck norris on, embezzle from, and sucker punch still exist until such “epidemics” are identified.
**in the interest of full disclosure: i was going to “shank” my 10 year old cousin some months ago but thought it was a little violent for a 10 year old. instead, i shanked my sister.
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you beat me to the keyboard, i was going to call a similar story “the final calcutta”. $5 bucks goes to the first reader that can tell me where that quote was used in recent pop culture history.
hint: it was in another oddly violent instance