Marketing of department

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10136679-2.html
and
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=who-needs-facebook-fr...

For you it might be hilarious, for me this is just the usual manipulation were constantly bombarded with designed for a shift in mentality to the ultimate department.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• burger
• king
• face
• book

[minomeshank]

i'm thinking it's to encourage you to first ADD more friends & then delete them.

basically no-one is going to delete a "real friend" (whatever a "real friend" is..)

and even if they do they'll just add them again.

more than likely people will just create fake accounts or add strangers...

no matter what tho, the sites views will go up, & both companies will get more xposure & make more money.

[drschnaggels]

well they could have atleast added a resurrection feature. You have to wait 3 days though but then can resurrect a friend :)

[simonodell]

maybe if the kids all think that a friend is anyone you meet they will be a lot more sociable as a generation than previous generations.

[drschnaggels]

thats to be proven. The standards would crash though.

[cputb1]

All my friends on Facebook work for Burger King so I'm very conflicted.

[drschnaggels]

You should get Burgers for free then -if there real friends ;)

[drschnaggels]

Yes they are, amen to that.

[drschnaggels]

heh, witty witty!

[drschnaggels]

Its real or at least it was, i just read that facebook banned the app cause it violated there tos.

[drschnaggels]

Jordan your still around! I have no idea what your saying here but it is nice to see you in the tubes.

[thedarkener]

That's Newscorp for you. Facebook is much nicer. It's just not the same crowd as myspace, and I find that very refreshing. =)

Maybe the word "friend" is being devaluized, but the concept of friendship might just get a new word. Maybe we're due for one anyway. I think Disney fucked it up for everyone already. ;)

Nice to see you Swen!

[BattlefieldDoktor]

And you're getting from the same people also bulletins "I've reached 1000 friends now".

Here on YouTube I accept all friend's invites ... if it makes them happy ... since I never check the Shared Videos folder, haha.

LOL, deleting 10 friends and getting one whopper for free. LOL, some people will get lots of whoppers when they're hungry then. Is it a real marketing strategy of Burger King or maybe a hoax to test how many people are believing it?

[vanness5]

What ever happened to Anne Frank? ~She was sold out for a whopper...