To many, Facebook friends are something akin to a fortune to amass and show off. To them, their every contact on the social network is part of a currency they can use to get even further and further ahead. Which might sound a bit mercenary, but the truth differs from that. Friendships on Facebook are not friendships in the conventional sense of the word. A person can have connections there that have nothing to do with his real life circle of friends. Using someone like that is not really using him.
In a sense, it is all more like a game where one association (or a number of them) leads to another. And that is why a site like Facetrump is nowhere as bizarre as it might seem on first looks.
We can define it as a service whereby one can select a handful of Facebook friends and have them turned into nothing more and nothing less than trading cards to play with (!). These can have their own categories and values (such as Beauty, Intelligence and Humour). All you have to do is to log in using Facebook Connect, single these friends you want to have turned into cards, set down their values and then order the set.
Facetrumps.com In Their Own Words
Turn Facebook friends into trading cards.
Why Facetrumps.com It Might Be A Killer
The site is interesting if only because it showcases how Facebook pervades our daily lives, actually spilling into contexts that were completely unforeseeable just a couple of months ago.
Some Questions About Facetrumps.com
What ramifications can something like this have? What is it setting the scene for? 
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