Far From Home

Don't forget your Facebook Vanity URL

If you care, and you might not...  Recently, Facebook has made one vanity URL available per account, first come first serve basis...

What's a vanity URL?  For example, my profile is now linkable at:

http://facebook.com/xenoc

Hurry up and grab your own at http://facebook.com/username !

Whopping Sacrifice

Burger King will hook you up with a free Whopper if you drop 10 of your friends on Facebook.  Wait, what?

...from reuters.com : Dump 10 Facebook Friends, Win a Whopper

I haven't thought about this all that much, but I don't really get it.  Does Burger King benefit from people dropping friends on Facebook?  Does Facebook benefit from people dropping friends?  Is this a carefully disguised attempt to lower the database load on Facebook? ;)

But seriously.. what?!

Adam Ostrow of mashable.com would trade 10 Facebook friends for a whopper.  And he has an interesting perspective on the proposition:

"While Burger King’s effort is mostly about quick hit marketing and getting some press (result: success!), they might actually be onto something. As our networks on social networking sites grow and grow with people we barely know, the value of them deteriorates – to the point that removing 10 “friends” for a free sandwich actually seems like a reasonable proposition."

...reasonable, to say the least.  Apparently as of this morning, 50,000 friends have already been casually sacrificed, all in the name of flame-broiled fast food.  Mmm.

Facebook : 50% Growth in 4 Months?!

Facebook has grown its userbase from 100 million users to 150 million users in the past 4 months.  That is really mind blowing.  Nuff said.

[mashable.com]