Last week people started adding Burger King’s Whopper Sacrifice app to their profiles on Facebook.  If you unfriend ten of your friends you’ll be rewarded with a free Whopper.  You could: unfriend your ex, that person you hated in high school that you added because everyone else did, maybe a co-worker, or your boss!

If you’re like me and your 9-5 is in social media, most likely your co-workers and your boss are on Facebook because it’s part of their job requirement.  Here are ten excuses you can give your co-workers and boss why you burned them on Facebook for a Whopper.

For a Co-worker:  Uhhh… John said he’d take me to the Laker Game if I burned you on Facebook.  He’s still pissed at you over last week’s project.

For a Co-worker: Don’t worry I’ll add you back after I get my free Whopper during my lunch break.  Burn Steve right now so you can go with me and get a free one too.  Steve: “I heard that!!!”

For your Boss: That can’t be right.  There must be something wrong with Facebook’s feed.  I burned my girlfriend/boyfriend, not you.

For a Co-worker: We don’t get paid until Friday, what was I supposed to do?? We’re in a recession!

For a Co-worker (/WiiFanboy):  I was going to get the Wii/Nintendo toys in the kids’ meal to make it up to you.  Co-Worker: “Yeah that ended two months ago”  ….Ohhh

For your Boss:  Oh you didn’t hear?  Someone hacked into my Facebook account.  I think it’s the same people who hacked into Britney and Obama’s Twitter accounts.

For a Co-worker:  I didn’t burn you Jennifer.  That was a mistake; I was supposed to burn my other friend. The two of you have really similar names.

For a Co-worker:   You’re the one who told me about the app! What do you expect I only have 10 friends!

For your Boss:  Sir I was doing market research and thought it would be a good case study for us.

For your Boss:  Honesty! Sir I thought I’d come clean and tell you that I burned you on Facebook for a Whopper….Wait, what do you mean you burned me first?  Boss: “I thought it would be a good case study”

UPDATE: Facebook took down The Whopper Sacrifice app due to privacy issues. It was still a good campaign!


NIECEE’s TAKE AWAYS:

It’s all in Good Fun.  A great campaign that’s generating a lot of buzz, I’m sure there’s going to be some kind of situation or weird encounter someone out there will have getting burned or burning.