Not exactly Facebook bucks, but Facebook credits.

CNET News is reporting that Facebook users may soon be paying Facebook "credits" for Facebook applications. I suppose it was inevitable.

Apparently some app developers are making a killing on virtual currency, and Facebook is looking for its cut. If any of you are spending your hard-earned cash on purchasing this virtual currency, you will soon be able to purchase Facebook credits instead to be used across the Facebook application universe.

It's hard to blame any company for chasing down potentially huge revenue streams, but, in my own humble opinion, so many of the Facebook apps are annoying enough as it is. Now, I'll have to click "No" who knows how many times just to confirm some third or fourth cousin's relative request.

It will be worse than leaving a drive through. If I want to add an apple pie, chili and/or cheese to anything, or purchase a gift card, I will say so.

Recently, when my wife and I were in San Francisco (at a restaurant which shall remain nameless), we overheard a wait staff training session where the manager was teaching the staff about "check building." Upgrading this or that, pushing fruity beverages, and suggesting sides and desserts are all ways to "build checks." A bigger check = bigger tips = more money for the restaurant...you get the picture.

Well, now it's coming to Facebook.