[Zimahl]

BangWithFriends seems like a new implementation of something I've seen a couple times in the last few decades. This is the first time I've seen it on FB.

I ran into this years ago in it's email incarnation. I think it was something like you'd get an email that said someone had a crush on you and then you are supposed to put in emails of other people and if there was a match you'd be notified. The problem was you didn't know who sent the email so you'd probably put in the emails of all your female contacts (or vice versa, etc) and then all of them would get emails. Logically it was an email ponzi scheme where if you didn't see the inherent problem from the beginning you probably ended up really confusing a bunch of your friends.

[jaredsohn]

My first experience with this concept was in the late nineties called something like Crushmail.

Here are some Hacker News threads about similar implementations:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3602033

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2908151