Facebook Places is brand new, and my creepy senses are tingling. Is it any wonder that now people have taken “Like”-ing things to real life? Coca Cola Village, in Israel, put Facebook user information in their RFID bracelets so that their park-goes could “Like” activities and rides during their visit.
This has to stop. Next thing we know, marriage certificates will have a Facebook share button on them. The creepiest part for me is that there was a photographer taking pictures and ‘allowing’ people to wave their bracelet at him to tag themselves in the photo. What do you think, Failbookers, is Facebook imitating life or the other way around? Have we broken that 4th wall forever?
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I like it!
Oh ok.
thats….. thats just not cool
and so it begins.
ever watch Gamer? i think Facebook is trying to imitate Castle…
ive got you under my skin…
See: http://xkcd.com/743/
Next thing you know, your comments on the things people “like” like this will be read out by some robot voice… wow, this is new kind of creepy…
lol
Should I send you a FB friend request so we can start dating already? hahaha. j/k
Why Israelis!? WHY?!
Why not? o.O
Why not? WHY NOT??!?
The question should be: Why, Coca Cola? WHY?!
Because you cannot get Pepsi anywhere in Israel.
That’s not true, they sell pepsi here. It just sucks, is all.
actually you can
Because you cannot get Pepsi anywhere in Israel?
WTF, yes you can.
Try Shufersal
(No, they don’t pay me for this. But I worked there for 6 months and only 3 customers ever bought pepsi, even though it is so obviously superior)
WRONG
pepsi is like diluted coke.
however, both are crap compared to what you get abroad.
I think it’s the caramel colorant that ruins it. the roach shells used to color coke in the states gives it a much better taste.
Resistence is futile.
Elections soon to follow
i actually think its a cool idea.
What happened to you Jesus? You used to be cool!
Jesus Christ!! Where did I go wrong with you, son?!
Probably when you forsook him, then again you don’t exist, so it’s a bit of a no-brainer, as they nailed him to that Cross.
good job being an ass
You would have been better off if you had worked ‘religion is an opiate for the masses!’ into your comment. I mean, if you’re going to pretend to be Marx…
Why would I need to quote that if people already know he’s an atheist, like you did? So need need to quote that, apart from Marx said a lot of other things about Religion and in general anyway.
Did it say somewhere on my contract that I had to do that quote? No, and in a thread where people are pretending to be God, lol, Jesus H. Christ on a bike, you’ve got to love our cousins for having the sense of humour subtlety of a brick.
Failbook comments fail.
How am I being asinine? Calling me an obdurate small Donkey doesn’t really hurt, whereas you sir, are a complete arse indeed, lol.
Here in England, where English was invented, we like to distinguish between words, rather than show up how unread we are by confusing an Ass with arse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass
Learn to read, dimmy.
Israel FTW
Like XD
Illegal Occupation FTW
Almost every country in the world has been occupying ‘illegally’ throughout the entire history.
Meow having no idea FTW
Just wait till these things are embedded in our arms, surgically placed there. All facebook and social networking will be with you always. GPS, status updates, likes, even farmville will be right with you taking control of your life!
Ick!
Adjust your tinfoil hat buddy… if you chose to have Farmville surgically embedded maybe you shouldn’t have the authority to make decisions. And how would it take control of your life if you intended it to be there?
one step leads to another, oh beloved one.
do not underestimate the power of ego and peer pressure.
OHW. MY. GOSH!
HOW SMART IS THAT?
THAT WOULD BE SOO AWESOME!!!
Imagine if you actually had to go to a farm to play farmville.
0.o
Crap, I need to remember to collect eggs from my chickens tomorrow morning. I just hope it stops raining, so I can get to the chicken coop without getting wet.
I mean, virtual farming. Yeah.
i was in that park and they make you give them your mail and pass if you want to go their, and they made a contest with prizes for who can make the most likes.
i miss coke village
Oh dear
if you wanted to go THERE. THERE, not THEIR.
Now David, I am not a grammar nazi, but I cannot tolerate the misuse of ‘their’, ‘there’, and ‘they’re’. I’m sorry, but anyone who passed elementary should NOT confuse these words!
Grammar Nazi bashing on the jew…
Though if you noticed, this is in Israel. where believe it or not they do speak Hebrew a tad bit more than English! So they aren’t going to have perfect English, just like your Hebrew probably sucks… I know mine does…
…I really should brush up on it =/
יצאת פרנו-ייד.
Like!
Chill out… If he’s been to the village, which is in israel, and he has a possibly isralei name such as david, chances are he might be Israeli. Therefore english is a second language for him. How many languages do you speak fluently and perfectly?
Aw, give him some slack. He’s probably a fellow Israeli, and I have very little faith in our elementary schools. Many English-speaking countries produce teens with more typos in shorter sentences than David’s had.
There are typos, and then there are spelling errors…
uh oh
In the name of publicity, corporations will use any means available…
Also, Facebook is merely a fad and will take the route of boy bands and fuax-hawks.
Your right although Facebook has lasted longer than I expected
Nickelodeon is trying to make boy bands be “cool” again. Have you seen those Big Time Rush guys? Their music is bad, along with other TV-show driven, show-toon/pop wannabe bands.
Yeah, but what are all these teenagers doing on Facebook? What happened to MySpace? Can’t adults have ANYTHING for themselves!?!
Just kidding, kids. Enjoy yourselves.
been there and didn’t give these bastards my password, and even though it’s a good idea that gave them publicity it’s still f**king gay
Actually, I like this. It was 3 days, which is enough time for it to be fun, is stuff you’d probably post about if you Facebook or Twitter your trip to Disneyland anyway, and when you go home, it stops.
I think it was a very cool experiment that would only work in expansion at theme parks and other similar areas. It would be fun to “Like” Space Mountain! It would NOT be fun to “Like” the green light on my street corner. It would be fun to have a vacation picture automatically upload to Facebook and tag my friends! It would NOT be fun to automatically upload my photo radar picture to Facebook and tag me (or, for someone I don’t know to randomly take a picture and tag me).
In this setting, it’s great!
Here’s a crazy idea…. DON’T SIGN UP FOR FACEBOOK!
ಠ_ಠ
What’s up w/ the music they chose? The song’s message isn’t really so much “be a corporate whore” (sorry, Corporate Whore; I don’t mean you).
Why does everyone dislike me?
Wow seriously failbook? Quit being a bunch of whineasses.
I agree, yahoo!
SO LAME!!! Israel suX
you wouldnt be lebanese at all?
You don’t have to be Lebanese, just someone who opposes the illegal occupation of Palestine.
May I ask how it’s illegal?
occupied territories**
As an acquaintance of the ONLY person who “went to jail” (or more accurately, been under house arrest for practically spying against Israel) for opposing the occupation, I can say you have no idea what you’re talking about.
The fence STINKS and could have been handled better (to say the least), but without it there would be nothing stopping suicide bombers from getting into Israel, which they try to do every day.
And the UN is not what it used to be.
I’ll just say that if the Hamas had the military power Israel has, there would be no Israel.
DISLIKE!!!!
Where’s our damn “Dislike” button? I want that more than I want Facebook poking it’s ass into my real life!!!
The Like button is for people too lazy to comment. A Dislike button would just be for lazy haters. It might have its uses, but Facebook is getting along fine without a Dislike button because users can *comment*.
Seriously, if this were ANY website but facebook (ok well maybe not “any” but you know what I mean) this would be a badass way to combine your online and IRL selves. In game-outside game scavenger hunts, visiting real places and scanning your wristband to mark it online, ect.
Having it as a way to add a lame (but trademarked) “like” feature is a waste of technology and ideas.
At least it’s all optional, and I can choose not to do this stuff. At least for now, anyway.
I think we are one step closer to the bar code tattoo with all our banking, credit, and personal info!
Well, u guys promoted it. Which meant I watched it hoping for a cheap laugh. But no, just the commercial. If its too much, which the comment said, don’t f…in promote it. Dammit. I bet you got money to do this, n are hiding it behind a “disapproving” comment.
Man, I *wish* we got money for that…
You hear me, Coca Cola?
he said it’s called RFID microchip, not an IDF bracelet. IDF is short for Israeli defense force.
The moment I saw that picture with a sign with my language on it, I facepalmed so hard that it looks like a slap. WTF coca cola?
by the way, is there an annual ‘coca cola village’ in other countries, or is this fail an Israeli fail?
I facepalmed hard too. Half of our street signs are already featured on Engrish, and the other half, while written correctly, is so stupid they end up on Failblog.
So much FAIL in such a small country.
As a resident of Israel, I have never been THIS ashamed of the country. and yeah, Ofir’s right, IDF is not what the bracelets are, lol.
As a fellow Israeli I was more ashamed when I heard about the Gaz… ooh nevermind.
Absolutely unbelievable.
1984!
none of this will matter when the alien zombies attack us all.
Wait a minute – there’s a Coca-Cola Village??? That’s more insane than FB’ing your visit there!
Who cares about the facebook stuff, israel got alot of hot women that’s why israel wins at everything.
Or because we use UN charters and the USA’s sub service to Jews to get our way with everything.
seriously man? how, as a fellow israely citizen, you are able to say such horrible things about us? I understand why citizens of other nations think those things, the worldwide propaganda is way pro-palestine and waaay anti-israely, but you should know better. as a matter of fact, how can you say such things and still live in our amazing country? do you know what kind of a hell it can be for a jew outside israel? now, you can say whatever you like, but if you are going to betray your country with such an act of anti-patriotism, please leave this place, and do it NOW!
It’s not so horrible as you make it sound… I’ve been there, it was really fun and you don’t HAVE to like things if you don’t want to. Plus, it is a comfortable way to enter to the dining room or to get coca cola, instead of going around with a ticket or something.
And WTH is IDF bracelets? IDF is Israeli Defense Force, you morons.
Wait ’til they install these bad boys at historical monuments. “Jeff likes THE EIFFEL TOWER”.
HOLY S**T i was there lol.
it’s actually pretty sad.
If it takes something like this to get people out to experience the real world – I’m all for it.
thats new
Wow! Facebook being used to gather information about users’ whereabouts and what they enjoy? No s**t? What a shocker!
And yeah..that was teh sarcazm.
Ahhh. So this is where all of the American tax dollars, as well as money from charities donated for Gaza relief, goes.
The Israelis escape reality–while Palestinians are all too aware of their horrible reality of occupation and oppression.
Oh, and before anyone starts with calling me anti-Semitic and what-not, being Anti-Israeli actions is not synonymous with being anti-Semitic.
I also acknowledge that wrongs are committed on both sides–but in this asymmetrical war, I can’t help but feel a bias and side with the Pali people.
Your maybe not anti-anti-senitic, your just a moran.
I mean, what the hell does politics to do with this realy lame coca cola vilage?
Im pretty sure that most of the teens in that vilage were between 14-17, they are not soldiers, and they have the right to have fun in their vication, just like palestinian teens have the right to have fun to.
And by the way, what was that bulls**t you commented “So this is where all of the American tax dollars, as well as money from charities donated for Gaza relief”
do you realy believe in that bulls**t? its sponsored by coca cola you idiot!
im sure that your not even from the middle east. its easy to see that you dont realy know what the f**k your writing about.
Honey, this is where Coka Cola money goes.
This: http://freund.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/palestinian_rocket_1.jpg is where all UN, Europe, and US funded Gaza relief money goes.
I’m not calling you an anti-semite, just very very ill informed.
No, this is where American consumer money goes. The charity relief for Gaza and whatnot goes to the corrupt Hamás and Fatah, to buy arms, and for humanitarian aid. (Before you start talking about a humanitarian crisis, riddle me this: how come obesity is such a horrible problem in the Gaza Strip?)
No, I’m not calling you anti-Semitic, just stupid.
Like.
Also, I don’t think it’s even American consumer money. We (Israel) have our own Coca-Cola bottling franchise and they take care of the local market. The money for advertising and marketing probably comes entirely from Israeli pockets.
You mean Hamas- the government that wouldn’t exist if the Palestinians had their land back? Maybe obesity is a problem because the only food that makes it to the Strip is Junk food. Maybe Israel should stop lying about everything and claim to get away with it because no (currently sane) government has the balls to stand up to them.
Funny, the Palestinians in Gaza elected a terrorist government only after Israel gave them their land back.
Makes you wonder, whether the West Bank Palestinians will resume terror, once we stop occupying them too. Kinda not making it worthwhile…
And no, the Strip has various food products. Vegetables, spices, beef, chicken, you name it. Maybe obesity stems from the Muslim culture of taking everything you can, and not worrying about dying early.
And you, my friend, should go read some books.
yeah like, Israel should totally stop sending the strip McDonald’s!
Now seriously, they are the ones who chose the terror to rule them, and then laid back and done nothing when the Hamas started terrorizing themselves. “Money for medicine? LETS BUY BOMBS FROM IRAN!” Humanitarian flotilla from Turkey to Gaza? “Lets bring friendly knives to hug the soldiers that warned us not to do this illegally!”
Yeah, many people side with the side that most effectively captures TV attention with its misery. The annoying little fact, like that now you are identifying with (a) sworn enemies of the United states which are being funded by Iran, (b) totalitarian religious fanatics who oppress their own people a lot worse than we Israelis oppress them, (c) people who systematically teach hate material in their schools, while the other side teaches “live at let live”, “accept those different than you” and other silly western notions, (d) people who think aiming at citizens and bombing themselves at civilians is fully justified, and is in fact a matter of policy, while the other side (that’s Israel) catches, tries and punishes soldiers who commit war crimes. Yes, there is an asymmetry here. But it goes in exactly the opposite direction from what you were fed by the Palestinian propaganda machine.
I ask you this: have you even realized that Israel has taken every last soldier out of the Gaza strip 8 years ago, and that the Gazans could live in peace quite a long time ago if they only decided to stop shooting missiles and get on with their lives? You think that anybody in Israel enjoys launching expensive air strikes at Gaza? What exactly do we stand to gain from that, politically speaking? Nothing at all. The only reason we do this is self defense.
Coco-cola and Facebook are a corporation and a private company. It’s extremely unlikely that the Gaza relief or Israel gives its money to those companies, considering that they both have trouble of their own.
And I agree with An Cat Dubh, you’re not anti-Semitic, just stupid.
Pricelessly funny.
All your information in one chip! Like it’s not enough that people in our generation have left insane virtual trails to follow, now it needs to follow us in wristbands! Screw privacy!
This is great…for getting you people used to the idea of having all your information available “in one convenient place”. Never mind that your information is shared with third parties (in this case, probably Coke and whomever else sponsored this lunatic waste of time). It’s not as if computer technology can be hacked or anything, or controlled by a central source, right? Oh wait…
And most of you people just think it’s a great idea! *holds out wrist* CHIP AND LABEL ME PLZ!!
More brainwashing.
The future is here, and it has bad grammar.
Hey, it’s from Israel.
Wasn’t really far from where I live.
Facebook is taking over our lives!