Comments on: Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper

Fast-food chain Burger King's new Facebook application will give you a coupon for a free burger if you start trimming that friends list. What it won't do: trim your waistline.

[karpenterskids]

HAHAHA...I'm so going to do that.
Or else add an extra 10 friends ahead of time so that I don't un-add anyone I truly care about.

[TheFutureOfAds]

Even without gaming the system, I'm sure there are plenty of folks that would love to trim 10 people from their friend list in exchange for free food. In addition to being 'dead-on hilarious', it was also a smart move by Burger King to tap into this pre-existing desire that many Facebook users have to get rid of a few friends, and get a free burger in the process!

http://thefutureofads.com/2009/01/09/burger-king-lets-people-sacrifice-friendships-for-whoppers/

[nweasel]

HAHAHA!

I've never seen anything like this. That's actually really funny. I hate Burger King, otherwise I'd participate just for the fun of it.

Hey, got any friends you don't need, or don't care about anymore? Just delete them to get yourself a free Whopper. Hey, why not?

[Josh.Lowensohn]

I'd delete you from my friends list for a pack of ketchup Ms. McCarthy.

[techman21]

Anyone does that to me, they're not coming back.

[smilin:)]

They care I'm sure. Loser.

[techman21]

Thanks, that's nice.

[chris_hamm]

Who do I know that is their friendship is worth less than free food?

[keynotespeaker]

This is an excellent/clever use of the FB application platform which is usually not utilized properly in my humble opinion. I'll be interested to see how many total friends are "sacrificed."

I don't see this generating new customers for BK, however it should do a great job of increasing current customer frequency.

[karpenterskids]

How many "new customers" can a major fast food chain gain to begin with?
Practically everyone here in the United States has already been to both McDonalds and Burger King. And Wendy's.

The most this can do is create customers who come more frequently.
(Or just people like me, who'll show up for the free food, and not come back for quite some time)

[Timmeh71]

The interesting thing about this app is that when you sacrifice your friends, they are notified. So no doing this anonymously.

[karpenterskids]

Hey, it's free advertising for them.
For each free Whopper given out, 10 more people are notified.
So it grows exponentially.

It's brilliant, to be honest.

[lindsaycb]

Now, question is... does this work for the Veggie Whopper? (Gardenburger instead of meat)

[terminalblue]

i wish i had ten friends to delete :-(

[mad_seadog]

hahahahahaha

[aka_tripleB]

Do you get extra credit if they are virgins? Regardless, my friends are safe from me sacrificing them, because i HATE Burger King food.

[DatabaseDoctor]

I just created a group on Facebook called BurgerKing Sacrifical Virgins.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43515578541

The idea is that everyone on Facebook should join the group and the group members act as sacrificial friends that allow you to add them and sacrifice them immediately so everyone can get a free Whopper?

JOIN THE FUN!!!

[LINARZE]

Now see... thats just mean. Scamming a billion dollar industry out of a sandwich that takes $0.50 to produce... you should be ashamed of yourself!

[karpenterskids]

hahaha

[Hunnter2k3]

Damn, now i almost wish i never deleted my account.
Too lazy to start it up again.

I could go a whopper now.

[JheriEvans]

Ahhh, I too gave up red meat. All meat except fish actually. Where was this app 2 weeks ago!?

[thejokker]

there is meat in a whopper?

[ekulongo]

Fish is not meat!

[albertkaufman]

wow, this amazing story almost helps me completely forget that Burger King cuts down rainforests to raise meat. And that we have thousands of soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan. Almost helps me forget about what the Bush Administration has done to gut our economy over the past 8 years. this is really really important to my life.

[mavfan2]

snore, maybe you can get Burger King to give you one carefree day in your otherwise miserable life

[Dabigkid]

Uhh, Iraq and Bush have nothing to do with this. Don't you have anything better to do than to whine about an administration that's leaving office in less than two weeks?

Secondly I hope you enjoy living on your privileged industrialized continent. Don't you feel great that your ancestors cut down forests before you, so you're able to live prosperous life and complain when other people do it in order to increase their own prosperity? People who struggle to even have one meal a day really don't give a hoot how you and other white upper middle-class liberals think they're harming the environment. Don't be so greedy and inconsiderate.

[darliejan]

thank you Dabigkid, I sometimes wonder if people THINK anymore. I can see that you do.

[frankceriona]

oh! i don't sacrifice with friend so i can,t delete the fiend list.

[Turnip_of_Power]

I'd love to delete 10 friends, but as usual my account is disabled. This is now a weekly thing with facebook. customer service tells me to create a new account, I follow their directions, and then antoher admin promptly disables it. It's an endless circle.

[nocrashonmeplz]

Crappy food ploys for crappy people.

It's funny how people complain about stars that sell out, yet they'll barely wince to delete a friend for junk food.

[pistachioed]

Do it without defriending any friends! http://gondaba.com/post/69385863/whopper-r-sacrifice-hacked

[rsignore]

This is a great example of a creative way to get people to opt-in to a company's social network. What they do with this information later is the key to making it successful.

[alombarte]

When Facebook asks you to give permissions to the application you a re giving permission to Burger King to know ANYTHING about you. Your profile, pictures, anything...

They will create a huge database with your free information. Adding facebook applications is not free fellows

[gimpordie]

that sounds scary :(