Do you have too many 'friends' on Facebook? You know, the 'friends' that paid you no mind in high school but then, when they find you on Facebook, it's all good times and buddy-buddy. Maybe you thought you were living in the 1930's when you introduced yourself with your full name at that corporate event and woke up the next day to find friend requests filling your inbox.
Well get down on your knees and give thanks for the advertising geniuses working for Burger King these days. First they brought us the brilliantly hilarious BK perfume site, and now here comes a Facebook application that will help you trim the fat on your 'friends' list without hurting too many feelings in the process.
The new app is called Whopped Sacrifice and it rewards you with a coupon for BK's signature burger for every 10 'friends' you manage cut loose. Each time you delete a 'friend' from your massively cluttered list, the application sends a notification to the banished party via Facebook's news feed explaining that your desire for a Whopper is stronger than your love for the unlucky former 'friend.' The app also adds a box on a user's profile page charting their progress toward the free burger with the line, "Who will be the next to go?"
The application is available on Facebook and at WhopperSacrifice.com.
**UPDATE**
A report from someone who has actually used the app. Turns out that BK sends the coupon through the snail-mail and it takes 2-4 weeks(!). Booo Burger King, booooooo! C'mon y'all, why not just e-mail it? We do live in the future, remember?
Dorsey Shaw is the Video Content Manager at Air America Media
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any of you are free to befriend -- then dump me -- in service of a free burger, if you so choose. I'm on there. and i'll understand fully why you did it.
It was especially satisfying getting rid of this girl who used to dick me around back in my sad little shy boy days. Having a message sent to her telling her I'd rather have a whopper than her was strangely satisfying.
I wonder if one could just send out reams of new friend requests, then delete them, creating your own personal facebook whopper farm?
I'm also less-than-enamored of BKs latest string of advertisements, where they try out various aboriginal cultures on the Whopper; this positively reeks of ethnocentricity with overtones of 3rd world exploitation. I'm pretty sure that assessment soars over most people's heads, though.
Speaking of BK apps, FYI, you can still Simpsonize yourself, courtesy of BK, online. Can't paste the URL in without this comment disappearing; interested parties should just Google "Simpsonize Me."
Mmmm......Whopper.....*drool*
I've been having similar problems with FB. I took myself out of my high school--that helped. Also, I have found if I send a note instead of "friend" someone, the emails peter out and then we can forget all about being asked to be friends :) Hope this helps some who are too nice to just hit the "ignore" button.
But being objective, I think if any of my friends slash me for a hamburger, I'll be slightly saddened. Maybe not so much if they share.
I don't need to insult ten people for a $2 sandwich. I can pretty much do it by standing in front of the restaurant in person and insulting one. Such is the gift that I have.
Check out the Fast Company list of other stupid Facebook apps. Swear to gawd, that thing is turning into a playpen: www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/7-anti-social-facebook-apps