Subscribe by EmailBurn 10 Facebook friends to cook up a free Whopper
January 8, 2009 by Chip | 16 comments
It’s a new year, and chances are that at least some of you have made a resolution to avoid fast food or red meat. Burger King knows this, and they’re apparently seeking to head off this mass migration towards healthiness by offering an alternative resolution: delete 10 of your Facebook friends instead, and they’ll give you a free Whopper. You know that in the throes of your Web 2.0 addiction you’ve accepted way too many friend requests — and now is the time to trim the fat, as it were.
Burger King has created a Facebook application called Whopper Sacrifice. Install the app, then delete 10 friends — and Burger King will send you a coupon for a free Whopper! It’s easy! Um, except that the Flash app crashes in Google Chrome (for me, anyway). Oh well, I couldn’t think of ten friends that I wanted to burn anyway — yes, I’ve been a good social media boy.
As of this writing, over 9000 friends have been sacrificed, according to Burger King’s site.
You’re limited to one coupon per person, so you have to weigh the loss of ten friends against only one Whopper. What am I saying?! Who wouldn’t kill ten friends for a Whopper? I wonder if you can uninstall the app after you get your coupon, and then refriend those people? Of course, in the mean time they get to see just how much you love them: your activity feed says “<user> sacrificed <supposed friend> for a free Whopper.” Just see if they’ll accept your friend request after receiving that gut punch — or should I say “paunch”: a Whopper sans cheese has 40 grams of fat (1.5 of which are trans fats), 51 grams of carbs, and a “whopping” 680 calories.
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That’s just about the most awesome thing I’ve heard all week! It should totally become a thing…yeah…!
Omg! It’s over 9000!
Now it’s over 15000!
aw man, I just cleaned out my unnecessary facebook friends last week
Add 10 of them back, then install the app!
Over 20,000 now!
Oh, this is “sterling,” mebbe “gold.” Platinum? Beryllium? Deuterium? Near-priceless, in any event!
We’ve GOT to get this EVERYWHERE! (Nah, let’s not bankrupt BK, I love the Whopper too much.) But, don’t we all know too many mercenary “bastids” (in my Best Boston Irish Affectation) that’d jump all over this?
Well, as I said, I love the Whopper too much, the one in my mouth, so, what’s one (more) person?…I’m in!
(Hilarious! Thanks!)
;-{)
Will
Oh. Crap. You mean I’ve gotta have a fecebook presence first?(oops, mispelling) to even participate? Man, I don’t have a facebook acct. Or, ten friends…burned ‘em all for a bottle of tequila on a Jose Quervo viral marketing campaign…
;-{)
“Fecebook” — nice Freudian pun!
Just set up an account, then add ten friends, then install the app, then delete them all! Half an hour’s work for a $2.39 sandwich — that’s almost $5 an hour!
i’m gonna burn my closest friends instead. haha. if anything they’d just laugh it off.
That’s a good idea!
Burger King has apparently stopped reporting the number of friends deleted — or maybe they didn’t anticipate exceeding 5 digits! I wonder how many friends there are in total on Facebook?
Now if I could just do the same thing for all the deadwood in my LinkedIn account I would be happier and less hungry.
BTW, has anyone tried to get a comment from the Facebook people on this? Might make a great story if they agree to talk, and perhaps even start a fun pissing contest between the two companies.
I just sent them an email. We’ll see if they respond.
The number’s back — and it’s almost up to 70,000!
Interesting valuation of Facebook based on this from Jason Kottke: http://www.kottke.org/09/01/facebooks-valuation-in-whoppers