Facebook drops a Whopper

You'll remember the hilarious Burger King Whopper Sacrifice promotion that offered you some cheap piece of meat in a bun in exchange of getting rid of 10 of your most obsequious or obscure Facebook friends?

Well, Facebook has defriended it.

You want the deep and meaningful statement from Facebook? Here it is:

"We encourage creativity from developers and brands using Facebook Platform, but we also must ensure that applications follow users' expectations of privacy. This application facilitated activity that ran counter to user privacy by notifying people when a user removes a friend. We have reached out to the developer with suggested solutions. In the meantime, we are taking the necessary steps to assure the trust users have established on Facebook is maintained."

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The supposed privacy breach consisted of those entirely disposable friends, people you never liked who requested you to be their friends, people for whom you felt sorry, receiving a notification that they had, indeed, been dumped for one-tenth of piece of meat in a bun.

If I were Facebook's sales staff (and I can tell you some funny stories about them, just not today) I would be wandering into Mr. Zuckerberg's office and giving him at least one-tenth of my mind.

Naturally, Crispin, Porter and Bogusky, the Whopper's (and, curiously, Microsoft's) ad agency, was already prepared. On the Burger King Web site, you can now express your feelings in a meaty manner. Yes, you can send an "Angry-gram." That would be a cute little animation that lets someone know "they annoy the hell out of you."

The less cute version of which might be, for some Whopper executives: "Burger off, Facebook."

[rhsc]

very mature

[AySz88]

I hope that Burger King isn't dumb enough to actually try to push for reinstatement. This part of the ad campaign seems incredibly self-destructive were it to be, you know, actually done by someone. (The de-friended people wouldn't be so happy....)

[dude7895]

Burger King sucks anyway...

[vonvonvonnie]

Truthfully, i thought the whole thing was funny, and my friends thought it was, too. I think it was all in good humor.

[DigitalFrog]

I thought Good Humor was an ice cream company, how did they get mixed up in this?

[Thomas_Smith_1969]

good humor, yes, but I like to believe that online sites take those privacy agreements seriously.

[CinnyMan]

Burger King has horrible advertisements and the Whopper Virgins ad's in forigen countries is somewhat offinsive to me. good thing I already dont eat there ****** food.

[karpenterskids]

How in the world are their Whopper Virgin ads offensive?!


It's simply a taste-test, for people who haven't made u

[MSSlayer]

Since when does Facebook take privacy seriously?

[walwebster]

Advertising agencies in Australia would have us believe that "The burgers are better at Hungry Jack's".

Many who have tried them would say, "... and about time, too!"

[zclayton2]

Although i thought the campaign was stupid, catering the the shallow end of the civility pool, I don't see how an Announcement that you've been "Burgered" violates privacy. You waive it every time you or a friend sign up for an app. And, in any case, wouldn't you notice when someone unfriends you when you stop getting updates and status from them? Oh yeah, and they've disappeared off my list.