No Whoppers for You…

Last week we tore down the wall built around doing mindless tasks for free food - (and what desperate lengths the fast food companies will go to advertise such…).  Two words: Whopper Sacrifice.

Ok, a few more words: Whopper Sacrifice = lame offer . (Completely non-existant offer, if you will…)

The FaceBook program, once installed, rewarded you for ditching, or ‘sacrificing’, 10 friends. The fast food chain promised that your all-expenses paid ‘Whopper experience’ would be delivered in the form of a certificate only 24 hours after your sacrificing was complete.

That certificate has yet to see the light of day - just as the roughly 82,771 people (having dumped a collective 233,906 friends) havn’t been rewarded.

“I think I’ll send an angry-gram to Facebook,” said a ‘grassroots BK-inspired Facebook group-ee’ from the “Whopper Sacrifice Network.” Even whoppersacrifice.com (the Sacrifice homepage), is recognizing defeat by running the title “Whopper Sacrifice has been sacrificed…”

So according to the big cheeses behind Facebook, the ‘Whopper Sacrifice’ application was an invasion of privacy, and they made their decision to modify the application’s ‘behavior’  “after extensive discussions with the developer…assuring that users’ expectations of privacy are maintained.”

In other words…your acts of jerk-osity in the name of the Whopper were totally fruitless. N ow doesn’t that make you feel good.