Pets were virtual goods apps for Facebook and MySpace originally created by Nikil Gandhy, Will Liu, and Jonathan Hsu.
allowed users to virtually “stab” friends; Facebook later asked Slide to remove this option.
Pets announced significant changes including removal of gold buying and quests.
Pets after its players had invested an estimated $650 million[5] of money in virtual goods that, with the shutdown of the app, would now expire worthless.
Characterizing the virtual items they had purchased as “property,” they claimed that as a result of Slide/Google's actions, individual players lost access to an inventory of goods that had cost “hundreds or even thousands of dollars.”[6] In 2013, the case was voluntarily dismissed by Abreu.