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I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. True, it's gotten me -- and kept me -- in touch with people that I had forgotten about (sometimes on purpose -- nothing worse than encountering an innocent "friend request" only to learn it's from that horribly cocky loser with the framed Anne Geddes "baby dressed as a pea pod" print above his bed you dated for a few weeks in the spring of 2005) but scanning the 250 "friends" I'm connected to this morning made me realize I don't really care about at least 3/5 of them. There are some I can't even remember approving!
If you're in the same position -- and you must be -- I know you are! -- I have a little incentive to weed out some of the riffraff from your Facebook friends list. Burger King is offer a free Whopper to anyone who deletes 10 friends from their account. That's right -- delete 10 people and they'll send you a coupon for a burger courtesy of the fast food chain's chef ... er ... grill master ... er ... gangly teenage kid with a spatula and (hopefully) a hairnet.
Even better -- your Facebook account will announce each time you've deleted someone to score your complimentary grub by listing "Noah sacrificed That Girl He Went To Junior High With And Couldn't Care Less About for a Free Whopper" in your activity feed.
Sadly, you can only qualify for one free Whopper but that doesn't mean you have to stop once you've deleted 10 friends. The burger really isn't the point (I can't remember the last time I ate at Burger King) -- instead, why not let this serve as the catalyst you need to nix the nobodies you feel -- at best -- lukewarm about? Let's declare 2009 the year of less is more and let it begin with free fast food.
-- NOAH MICHELSON
Previously > Cazwell's "I Seen Beyonce At Burger King"
I do think this is a really clever promotion, even if I don't like Burger King and don't want the Whopper. I might still do it and then give the Whopper to a homeless person or something. Lose 10 friends, make 1 new one?!
Posted by: vampicorn | January 09, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but this seems a bit too cruel for me.
Posted by: lpoik | January 09, 2009 at 01:30 PM
Noah. If I get deleted for a free hamburger, I'm going to be very angry with you.
Posted by: Phil | January 09, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Fast food needs to be deleted instead of old friends
Posted by: feed up | September 22, 2009 at 07:28 AM