Bang away – just not 'with friends', Zynga tells naughty hookups app

The sexy hookups app Bang With Friends has agreed to change its name after a legal spat with social games designer Zynga. The two companies were at loggerheads over the "With Friends" bit of the casual sex app's name. The naughty app agreed to change all its branding and also to take the offending words out of its corporate …

[Adze]

So this app is the new and improved digital friend who will tell your beau/belle "My friend really likes you..." ?

[John 110]

"allowing the pair to get jiggy at their next available convenience. "

Should that be "...in their next available [public] convenience"?

I'll take my coat off first, shall I?

[Elmer Phud]

Bashing bits together

" "allowing the pair to get jiggy at their next available convenience. " "

When I were a lad that were called 'telecottaging'

[Phil O'Sophical]

Ripe for blackmail

Wait until Farcebook next has to apologise that it was hacked last weekend, and "among the data the crooks may have accessed were the contents of users' Next Bang wishlists". We'll see some running for cover then, no doubt...

[Anonymous Coward]

Reply with friends...

What a stupid trademark "with friends" is. It's descriptive, which is the sign of a trademark that should not stand up in court.

Anonymous because with friends.

[Caesarius]

Farcebook, Facebork, ...

"Facebonk", anyone?

Wow. That went spectacularly wrong.

[Josco]

After "The Next Bang"

I suggest for post coital refreshment: www.betterbangers.com

[Michael H.F. Wilkinson]

Can you be voted "Best Bang since the Big one"

or does that title firmly belong to Zaphod Beeblebrox?

Icon, well, because I like things that go bang

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe take the service in the opposite direction?

"Screw Your Enemies" anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Maybe take the service in the opposite direction?

That would presumably run on arsebook rather than facebook.

[Suburban Inmate]

The Nest Big Bang

For the chubby chasers out there...

[Anonymous Coward]

Their new name...

Banging for Dummies.

[DownUndaRob]

... with friends

So Im going to be sued if i have Coffee with friends???

What a stupid law, dont tell me... its from America right???

[Don Jefe]

I don't get it... When I was young and wanted to bang a casual friend I just rang her up and asked. Do kids not know how to ask for sex anymore? I bet if they put down their phones and learned to communicate they could get laid a lot more. Funny that the thing they're using to find sex also keeps them from getting sex. Dumb kids.

[Daniel B.]

Nah

It's just yet another version of the "CrushLink" thingy, except this one is sex-oriented. I'm pretty sure the blind date-match thingy predates the internet at least.

[Lamont Cranston]

Looking at my facebook friend list,

I already know how many of them I want to get jiggy with, and how many of them feel the same way (hint: the answer to both is "1").

I assume the idea behind this app is that it shields users from rejection, but it all seems a little sad (not to mention sordid), nonetheless.

[dan1980]

Now with Internet !

"With Friends" is a trademark-law version of the format that seems to be using up so much patent ink: commonplace concept + THE INTERNET = magically new, patentable IP.

Some judges get it, far too many don't.

[J__M__M]

So is it

quit ripping off our rip-off?

[Magnus_Pym]

I wonder what the request-bang convertion rates is?

Very low I should imagine.