Category: Here’s a really funny one (I think): There’s a new Facebook application that would would give you a Burger King Whopper (yep, the store that sells, uh, the Whopper) in exchange for 10 of your Facebook friends. All you have to do is delete 10 of your friends. The application is called the Whopper Sacrifice.
So far around 50,000 Facebook friends have been deleted. That translates to around 5,000 whoppers probably being digested in people’s stomachs. That’s a lot of calories right there.
It is a pretty ingenious marketing ploy for Burger King I must admit. I bet right now, Facebook fanatics (millions of them) are talking about the Whopper. The marketing folks at Burger King deserve a raise for this.
Now this got me thinking, I don’t have a Facebook account. If I have, I must have forgotten about it already. Anyway, instead of deleting 10 Facebook accounts, what possible trade-offs would I insist should somebody send out a survey and ask what I would want in exchange for removing 10 Blogcatalog friends? Hmmm… I’d probably ask for a one-way backlink from a PR3 blog. Yeah, I’m cheap.
How about deleting 10 links in my Blogroll? Now this is gonna be a wee bit more expensive, after all I’m forsaking backlinks (I’m sure there’ll be retaliations from the owners of the links I removed) I’d probably ask for a 6 month 125×125 ad on the front page of a PR4 blog. Make that a PR6 if the sponsor selects the links I should delete.
How about deleting 10 posts, or 10 blogs, or 10 hosting accounts? Oh I don’t know, a gazillion dollars?
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No problem mate. Been to your other blog as well. :)
added you in my roll. mine is a PR3 blog so that’s gonna make you cheap LOL!
Great site – very informative and helpful. I’ll keep reading and learning. Thanks!
Hahaha, or how about exchanging GF for a link in a PR6 or PR 7 site. LOL.
That’s crazy dude. I will never exchange a whopper for your link. Maybe a Subaru Forester will do. :-)
Exchanging the GF??? Baka ma-Loreta Bobbit tayo nyan! I can hear the snip snip already. lol.
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I have a facebook account but I’m not a facebook fanatic. It’s nice to know that there is such thing as that application. If it’s true, then probably Burger King will have a big loss. LOL
I think burger king just loves the publicity. :)
heh, i like your post. i am a facebook user, but am far from fanatic. there are many things i dont like on facebook.
dude, they are just one step away from updating my friendlist that i just changed my password!
by the way, i found your blog through blogcatalog, and i love it. keep it up :)
I’d trade anything, cause I could just add them back after I got my free stuff ;)
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Great marketing gag from Burger King.
Slogan could be “delete like a man” ;)
I like your site, it’s great. Please don’t hesitate to visit my little part of the cyber world.
I love your site but I am not very tech savvy and don’t know what to say when read some of your post. I am learning a lot but don’t have much to add. This post whoever is so bizarre I want to add my two cents.
I think that BK came a up with a brilliant piece of marketing. Commercials do not have the affect that they use to, and we all know that internet marketing is not as effective as once thought. So by infiltrating the Facebook culture people who haven’t eaten a Whooper in years probably look forward to the opportunity to delete for food.
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Hahaha. Pwede! :)
haha! what i would want in exchange for removing 10 blog catalog friends?? hmmm, i dunno. maybe .. its too hard! haha! i’l delete 10 friends but i would have 100 friends in exchange! haha! labo. XD
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pretty hard decision to make, maybe a $100 on my paypal would do it? lol
nahh…..
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10 friends for a whopper? thats ridiculous.
for BC friends? lol.. i dont know… geez!
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Hey dude, I got a PM from you on Blog Catalog, asking for exchange links. I rarely use my Blog Catalog account so I checked out your blog instead. :D As for the exchange links offer, I already added you on my blog roll. Hope you add me too. :D
That’s a no-brainer. I’d drop 10 blogcatalog friends for a Kindle2 e-reader. hahaha. And of course I’d drop readers who preface their comments with, “visit me at this and that blog.” without so much as a peep about my post they’re commenting on. And I’d do the dropping for free. But this is just me, I don’t know about you guys. Cheers.
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Hahaha. I have a few ‘friends’ who I’d drop for a song as well. lol.
Ha ha ha, the second I heard about this I dropped 10 of my friends… one was my mother. I couldn't resist my feed saying, "He just deleted his mom for a free Whopper." Best. Marketing. Ever.
I didn't know about this app either. I do have a few facebook friends but mostly ones that i actually want to keep, I'm not one of those people with 800 friends – too much to keep track of.