GENIUS!

Burger King: Unfriend 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper (Nancy Luna, 1/08/09, OC Register)

When will the madness end at Burger King?

The publicity department at Burger King (NYSE:BKC) is at it again with another campaign that is sure to disturb many — including your best friend. The nation’s No. 2 burger chain is offering Facebook users a coupon for a free Whopper if they “unfriend” 10 people from their social network database. [...]

But wait, it gets better. When you initiate the program, the application pulls up the mug shots of all your friends — taunting you to make picks as they stare you in the face.

Then the big warning comes: Once you select someone to unfriend, the program will — insert gasp here — notify that person that you have sacrificed them for a burger! (And, by the way, ‘friend’ is now a verb, as my Facebook friend June keeps telling me.)

Shouldn't it be the Angry Whopper though? I'd go all Abraham and Isaac on my kids for one of those bad boys....

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2009 1:51 PM