Today’s free gift that social network site Facebook users can electronically give to each other appears to be a frosting-coated ghost cookie in a plastic bag. Oh, and the cookie says Walmart on it. Spooky. Now is time for a fun Halloween game. Make this simple marketing ploy into a metaphor, and then read a lot into it.
The Ghost of Wal-mart: Haunting towns and Facebook profiles near you. [Wal*Mart Watch]
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Is it going to give me lead poisoning and then is Walmart going to deny that it ever came from walmart when I sue them?
Go to hell walmart.
Why would anyone want to “gift” a fellow facebook user with a walmart cookie? (except as a joke
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Nah, it’s just full of hydrogenated oils.
[Insert Totenkopf Reference here]
[Insert outrage]
[Insert "what's the big deal" sentiments]
Hahahaha, I sent one before I saw it here, I did not mind the walmart logo I just sent it to my boyfriend saying boo, I rather send this free gift instead of sending the $1 ones
This is how most walmart workers feel. Stuck inside a plastic bag with a giant “WALMART” branded on them for life. Even death.
Look at the poor soul as they reach out for help.
Facebook is becoming a corporate branded mess, just like MySpace.
hey wal-mart cookies are all i can afford. lol. but i had one and they are pretty good!
It’s the ghost of out-of-work Americans and murdered US pets.
Nice of the Evil Empire to commemorate them, come to think of it.
If this is a free gift, as the OP and commenters have indicated, then it’s the work of a third party application developer, not Facebook itself.
App developers on Facebook produce an incredible amount of tacky crap, as any Facebook user can attest.
There was a free Skittles gift on Facebook and nobody complained about that. At least… not that I know of.
@thewriteguy: Thankfully, the layouts don’t kill your computer and eat your babies. Just the 8000 apps that people add.
@louisb3: The tackiest of crap tends to come from the “free gift” app, too.
@louisb3: no it is a regular FB gift that are usually $1, it is just free…not one of the tacky applications
I sent one (cause that’s all the allow you to send) to a friend with a message that said “I HATE WAL-MART!!!”
@takotchi:
That’s because Skittles are enjoyable. Wal-Mart is not.
@aro: Oh. My mistake. Well, that sucks. At least this gives us the option of sending it with a sarcastic message (“The Walmart poltergeist is coming to destroy your local community!”).
Ghost “cookie” w/ Walmart logo on it….hmmmm
Social commentary, Accidental Irony, or leftovers from the last Walmart corporate meeting?
LiveJournal did the same thing with Pepsi Max virtual gifts. A lot of people were annoyed, because paid users arent supposed to see advertising, and now anyone could stick a tiny Pepsi ad on anyone else’s userinfo whenever they pleased.
facebook is making me want to use it less and less.
This is perfect. Fear of Walmart on this site is as rational as a fear of ghosts.
@atalantapendragonne: well, Pepsi Max is awesome ;-P jk
A WalMart ghost is a fallacy because a ghost would imply there was a soul.
No, we don’t fear walmart. We DESPISE walmart.
And for good reason.
Who ya gunna call?
@trai_dep: I’m sorry, “The Evil Empire” is a registered trademark of the AT&T corporation.
@atalantapendragonne: Wait… people actually bought those Pepsi Max ads? I fear for humanity.
I sent one to a friend.
I ate one bite of this Wal*Mart ghost cookie, and my mouth blistered from a chemical burn. I kept eating it, though. For a whole year.
Wal-Mart is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful company I’ve ever know in my whole life.
I saw this today and just wanted to hurl! It almost ruined Halloween!!
I’m pretty proud that I have no idea what’s going on here.