One thing about widget applications on social networking sites, you will get noticed for sure. And this does not only cover areas on how entertaining and wacky they may be, violence and offending activities may put you in trouble as well.

At least this is what the UK anti-knife crime group. While social networking game applications are meant to serve as entertainment, they still play a critical role in motivating and stirring up ideas for people who are using them. Actually, they get ideas from what they see on the web and most of them are not at all comforting.

The application in the limelight is the Superpoke application which had to take out the shank or knife their friends feature. The application was actually developed by Slider.com which primarily provides widgets or plug-ins for several social networking sites, including Bebo and MySpace.

This feature was removed following public outrage as the UK anti-knife crime group Urban Concepts’ Raymond Stewart said it was “appalling” that this game was allowed to exist on a site heavily visited by teenagers.

The game was also heavily criticised by the uncle of Harry Potter actor, Rob Knox, who was stabbed to death outside a pub in the UK earlier this year by two men armed with knives.

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So just in case you are wondering what happened to that feature on Superpoke the next time you open your Facebook account, don’t be surprised. It has been taken out for your own good!

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