Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic. (opens in new tab)

It shouldn't be too much of a pain to do. I do something like this on http://thingist.com (Not caching facebook photos, caching the randomly generated 3x3 pictures that it gives you if you don't connect with facebook [the script to generate the pictures is expensive])

The python to do it would look something like this:

def cache_fb_photo(fb_uid,cache_name):

     import urllib
     import time

     request = urllib.urlopen("https://graph.facebook.com/%s/picture" % (fb_uid))

     photo = request.read()

     photo_location = "/path/to/photo/cache/cache_name"
     cached_photo = open(photo_location, "w")
     cached_photo.write(photo)
     cached_photo.close()

This may or may not violate facebook's ToS. Obviously it would take more than this to actually put it into production, but this would kindof work.

There really isn't a way around that (as far as I can tell) beyond caching them on your server.

Your relaxed attitude to privacy is enough to make me never use that site, sorry.

The fact that it is a 'pain' to make the effort to protect someones identity means you're probably in the wrong business.

What part of the Tos? The app is explicitly asking you for permission to post things to your wall.

"Farmville does it" isn't a valid excuse. Be kind to users. Don't sink to the lowest common denominator.

Charles didn't create the bonzhai account. My name is Alan! This is my account.

Be careful and smart about that 3 strike policy. Remember the ability to "warn" back on AIM? It got really annoying. How are you going to keep people from abusing this 3 strike system?

Also, identification of a Facebook profile does not necessarily prevent predatorial behavior. It doesn't promote it, sure, but anyone can make a believable fake profile.

More potential than chatroulette is a bold claim considering they came first. Despite that, your app does have potential, and personally, I would use it, at least the concept of it. Right now it's not very usable. It rotates through like 5 people and they're not necessarily 'there'.