Budweiser's bonkable Buddy Cup brings Facebook to the pub Are you spending so much time on Facebook that the prospect of actually going out and socializing has become a little unnerving? Don't worry; mega-brewer Budweiser has got you covered, with a new beverage cup that helps merge the physical and online worlds. "The Buddy Cup brings together the in-bar experience with Facebook, …
So some smartass will go around and bump his cup with that of everyone he passes whether they want him to or not, and everyone will get a friend request from the biggest drunk jackass in the bar.
Good plan, Budweiser. Maybe for an encore you can sell t-shirts that have a target on the back that says "puke here".
Sounds like a good way to get names/stalk people as well. With no "bonk consent" there's no real way to be selective about who you get requests from. And how are these disabled? They're cheap enough to hand out - will people be throwing them into the trash or remembering to take them home?
Adding cups to the Internet of Things...
Plus you can find out what someone's name is even if they don't want to tell you. You can bonk to get the friend request sent, then you can check your Facebook to see the name of the person to whom you just sent a request.
And stalkers everywhere rejoiced and gave thanks to Budweiser.
since you'd have an easy "in" ("Hey, remember me from the bar the other night? We talked about XYZ and I found a great product that might help ..."), but as many have pointed out above I wouldn't use my REAL fecebook/ contact info (if I had a fecebook account, anyway).
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