Facebook decided to remove the knife icon from its "Superpoke!" application, after receiving many complaints. The knife icon had the word "shank" next to it which is a street term for "stab". Members could "shank" anyone with a Facebook profile after which the other member would get a message notifying them that they had been "shanked". Nice, huh?
An article on the Telegraph.co.uk entitled "Facebook condemned for allowing knife crime game" quotes John Knox as saying "The stupidity of having this on their site is unbelievable. And they deliberately use the street term 'shanked', which is even worse. They are targeting the kids who are on street corners carrying knives."
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