Posts Tagged ‘Facebook Promotion’

Never underestimate the power of porn. A distraught Glasgow woman has single-handedly forced the giant soft drink maker Coca-Cola to pull a Dr. Pepper Facebook promotion after her 14 year old daughter’s status was altered to include reference to a porn movie. The promotion required Dr. Pepper “hijacking” users’ status updates with embarrassing statements – some more embarrassing than others by the looks of it. The offending statement was first removed, but Coca-Cola announced yesterday that they would end the promotion altogether. Regardless of whether or not the pornographic status update would offend us all, this signals a victory for the solitary voice using social media to rally against a multi-billion dollar corporation online.
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I can still remember a time when people would tell me that OpenID and Google would definitively be the centralized ID of the web.  Other people would say there was no use to even having a sort of central identification.  And nearly every person would laugh if I insinuated that Facebook had the best shot of becoming the profile that defines a person on the web.  Those days are long gone, and today while hitting up a Second Cup coffee I noticed that they offered free wi-fi for logging in with your Facebook account.  I take a look at why they would choose Facebook.

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