Staff Blog
Ruin your relationships with distant high school friends to get a free Whopper
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| adrants.com |
I gotta give it to Burger King. Their marketing department is quite clever, from the ubiquitous creepy plastic-faced king to Web ads like this to the extremely controversial burger cherry popping of indigenous peoples they’ve dubbed “Whopper Virgins.”
Put your Facebook friendships to the test, kids, because the top-dog social networking site and BK have teamed up in their most recent marketing scheme to get people to scarf down more Whoppers. The aptly named Whopper Sacrifice is a Facebook application that will give you a coupon for a free Whopper if you delete 10 Facebook friends.
I bet you think you already outwitted them, because it’s easy to just delete someone and then add them back. (More than 215,000 people and counting have been sacrificed so far.) Facebook, however, will still notify the rest of your friends that you “just sacrified [name] for a free Whopper.”
I’m getting used to seeing that on my news feed. I may end up alone, but at least I’ll be full.
