facebook friends stick together
Burger King and Facebook have teamed up to reduce Facebook’s increasingly bloated friend-base by offering free Whoppers in exchange for deleting Facebook friends. wait. what?
This week, fast-food giant Burger King released a Facebook application that gives you a free Whopper burger for every 10 friends you delete. On the Web site Whopper Sacrifice, Burger King keeps a tally that records the number of friends who have been sacrificed for the company’s signature sandwich offering.
while i’ve always been a fan of food and free stuff, there’s just one teensy bit of a problem with your little scheme. i can’t delete my Facebook friends. are you freaking kidding me Burger King?! i find it terribly offensive for you to assume that my 405 friends are largely comprised of a bunch of random high school and university people I haven’t talked to in years and would never have thought about again if it weren’t for social networking sites? i’ll have you know that i am proud to call them my FRIENDS. each and every one of them. although I appreciate your generous offer, i’m gonna have to pass. you see, my FRIENDS and I will continue letting each other know which events we are maybe attending, declaring our state of psyched-ness about the upcoming weekend, and paying full price for our nondescript fast food chain burgers.
