Where was I when this happened? I would have totally deleted 10 friends for a free whopper. Couldn’t I just go add them again after I got my burger? I think that this is pretty wild, I understand Burger King trying to get a little extra advertising but just how this article talked about how they feel offended when someone unfriends them on facebook. Personally I don’t think I would even notice if someone unfriended me, it must mean I don’t talk to them enough in the first place. Unless it was someone I had a good connection with but I don’t think that type of person would even unfriend me in the first place.
This article talked about the application on facebook that would allow you to receive a free whopper if you delete 10 of your friends. They said there were 234,000 friendships that were ended from the event. This post also points out that it’s a good idea to go through all of your friends at least once every year and delete the people you quite frankly just don’t know anymore because you only met them once or they are just strangers. I am probably going to go through my friends after I am done with this post.
Brian Gies, a vice president of marketing who didn’t participate in the event explained the marketing team’s thinking about Facebook. “It seemed to us that it quickly evolved from quality of friends to quantity,” he said, “which was interesting to us because it felt like the virtual definition of a friend became something different than the friends that you’d want to hang out with.” (NY Times Douglas Quenqua) This quote really got me thinking about the reasons that I am friends with somebody on facebook in the first place. Things that come to mind are actually being friends with them, going to school with them, met them the night before, saw them on campus, or just thought they had a cool name. I remember in my early college years seeing a girl on campus that smiled at me but didn’t say anything, so I just decided to add her to my friends on facebook. She accepted but we never actually said anything to each other we were just facebook friends. Now I realize it was a pretty silly thing to do, I should probably go delete her.
Another quote from this post that I enjoyed was from Mr. Blodget who asked Facebook to develop new friendship levels that would let users sort their acquaintances by degree of separation. He suggested categories like “ ‘personal friends’ or ‘work friends’ or ‘extra special friends’ or ‘BFFs’ or ‘friends you want to hear meaningless trivia about all day long,’ ” and implored, “Please give me the ability to put friends in these groups without telling them I have done so.” (NY Times Douglas Quenqua) I think that would be a great idea because it would allow you to keep track of those certain groups at whatever rate you may want to. I think it would be cool to have a page full of all the friends that I am in recent contact with. Overall I thought this post was decent, it did get me to think about what kind of friends I have on facebook, but I still don’t think befriending someone might cause that much drama especially if I got a message saying that they did it for a whopper.
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