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# Facebook Credits go on sale in the UK
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## Tesco and Game stores will sell Facebook's virtual currency from this
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week, the Telegraph can exclusively reveal.
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Facebook Credits, the social networking site's new currency, will be available
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from Tesco and Game
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By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor 10:36AM GMT 17 Nov 2010
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Social network [**Facebook**][3] has announced the UK launch of its virtual
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currency "Facebook Credits". From this week, gift cards for the new currency
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will be sold in Tesco and Game shops.
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Facebook Credits can only be used to buy virtual objects, for instance in
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games, and can also be earned through some applications in the same manner as
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air miles. More than 200 apps and games currently accept Credits, and 22 of
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the 25 Facebook apps use them. _Farmville_, the most popular game on Facebook,
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is one of the more than 50 per cent of games to adopt the currency.
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Deborah Liu, manager of product marketing for Facebook Credits and games at
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Facebook, told the _Telegraph_ that although Credits could currently only be
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spent on Facebook.com itself, their reach could expand beyond the main site
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using Facebook Connect, which allows users to login to other sites with their
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Facebook ID.
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"Someday it's something that we would consider," she said, "but there's a lot
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that we want to do on Facebook.com for now."
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Ms Liu added that the gift cards would give parents peace of mind in what
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children were playing online, while also allowing children some freedom to
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spend their credits as they wished. Using major retailers such as Game, Tesco
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and others in the future is also intended to give small developers who sign up
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to use Credits a wider reach into a new source of income, she added.
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* [MySpace 'will be forced to allow Facebook Connect'][4]
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* [Facebook.com address on sale for charity][6]
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16 Nov 2010
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Euan Ballantyne, head of cards at Tesco Bank, said: "We now offer a range of
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gift cards and social gaming is becoming increasingly popular, so we are
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pleased to offer what might be an ideal Christmas present."
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Sebastien de Halleux, vice president of business development and strategic
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partnerships at games maker EA Interactive, added that "credits offer people a
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trusted and convenient way to buy premium items, such as a gold pack of
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football players in Playfish's _Fifa Superstars_".
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The "digital goods economy", met initially with scepticism, is now thought to
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generate hundreds of millions of pounds per year. In the US and UK, it is
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focused on digital gifts as well as screensavers. In other countries, however,
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user can sometimes also exchange their virtual currency for real money.
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