Some exquisite whining going on at Valleywag yesterday, with an anonymous Facebook developer going on and on about how he and his crew had diverted precious resources to developing a Facebook application — only to get the proverbial rug pulled out from below their feet.

Specifically, there is some first class whinging about how the first set of developers had an ‘unfair advantage’ because of how Facebook had structured the viral component of their applications. One of these components involved being able to blast all your friends with notifications that you had a new application set up. Now, you’re not able to do more than 10 friends a day.

What’s worst is that the developer starts going on “in paranoia extremus” about how this was perhaps planned out, and that they knew that that initial apps were going to explode, and hey — isn’t that Zuckerman’s girlfriend’s roommate’s second cousin twice removed’s uncle helping develop one of those first sweet apps … and doesn’t he, like, secretly own 60% of Facebook through that famous and little known “IOU” that Mark Zuckerman ran up that one time? You know, because he was caught doing that thing on campus when no one was looking? You know! That thing with the pants.

Right. And the FBI is using Facebook to spy on us all.

Look, I sympathize with *wanting* a “level playing field”. I’m all for being equal. But, I also realize that when you’re playing in someone else’s sandbox, you play by their rules. If they want to change them, tough noog’s — you’re S.O.L. and you know what? You should have prepared for that AND any future changes. Like Facebook suddenly switching off their API, or even charging you for it.

Furthermore, do you really think that its a conspiracy that is driving the changes at Facebook? How about looking at it from a user’s point of view. I thought being able to spam all of your friends was annoying both from an installer of of applications, but also from being on the “shared” point of view as well.

And if I’m annoyed by it, *maybe* Facebook was getting some negative feedback on it and wanted to get down on the issue quickly before it became a firestorm of controversy. I can see it now “Facebook 2.0 allows Spam! Please Digg this!” You know. Like the last one. Around privacy? You know — how it reached the mainstream media as well?

Yeah, I bet Zuckerman wants a repeat of those shennanigans.

Lastly, it looks like Liz Ganes at GigaOM has the scoop with some thoughts and interviews with another Facebook developer, and she shares the same sentiments: Facebook developers don’t have the “right” to do anything, least of all spam users.

At the end of the day this is nothing more than a classic case of sour grapes. iLike had a “first mover advantage” in a way that every developer is green with envy / kicking themselves with. The rules have changed? Boo freakin’ hoo. Time to get back to work about making an application that is so useful people will actually *want* to share it with their friends.