You run a social gaming company, so it's obvious why you feel that way. For most regular people they can be very annoying. Anything that makes games on Facebook less of an annoyance is probably a good thing in the long run, for Facebook anyway.

Ouch dude, that's way defensive.

It has nothing to do with taste. It has to do with Zynga providing incredibly shallow gameplay solely optimized for virality and addiction. It's not entertainment, it's a money grab. If you can't see that and you feel the need to shout down any opinion along those lines then you may not have the stomach to succeed in the social gaming market...

Yah, those newbies. They don't get it and can't read pseudo code.

(the yearly summer trend is still far away regardless of how sunny it is in the bay area right now. If there is anything special this year is the relatively early arrival of Easter which may break patterns.)

ah, much better with more words.