There was this scene in one of my fave TV series: Prison Break. T-Bag was left alone with a friend in a desert by some random guy who had given them ride but then was more interested in their money. The companion, an oversized man, couldn't take the misery any more: after walking so far under the sun, he got so hungry. He had to eat. Or die. So he tried to eat ... T-Bag! But T-Bag of course won the fight. He killed the giant. Then he was about to leave when it occured to him: he was hungry too. Why not eat ... that friend?
I happened to remember that story as I came across this Whopper "anti-friendship" program. It is a software you can add on to your Facebook account to ... sacrifice your friends to get ... a sandwich. It's relatively new. So let's see how it plays out. I guess there are not too many people willing to sacrifice 10 friends for 1 Whopper. Or are there? What I think true though is, friendship is not priceless. Recall the T-Bag story above.
But there are other things an FBer might want to consider before sacrificing a friend. For one, his status will read something like this "John sacrificed Joel Kaplan for a free Whopper". How many people would want to have a status that reads like that? If your friends know that you just sacrificed a common friend, chances are, they (or some of them) would rush to sacrifice ... you (before I get sacrificed like Joel, I should sacrifice that bastard first). But hey this seems interesting...
Another thing is, currently coupons apply only to US residents. So we in Indonesia can still hug each other...
it's an ingenious marketing idea!
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