Comments for Free Facebook Gift: Walmart Ghost Cookie

Free Facebook Gift: Walmart Ghost Cookie

2007-10-15T22:41:24Z

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]

Comment from Anonymous on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T22:06:25Z

I'm pretty proud that I have no idea what's going on here.

Comment from femmesavante on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T10:07:08Z

I saw this today and just wanted to hurl! It almost ruined Halloween!!

Comment from Blackcloud75 on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T07:04:54Z

Wal-Mart is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful company I've ever know in my whole life.

Comment from LaurenKitsune on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T06:18:58Z

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.

Comment from miborovsky on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T05:17:43Z

I sent one to a friend.

Comment from drjayphd on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T03:36:39Z

@atalantapendragonne: Wait... people actually bought those Pepsi Max ads? I fear for humanity.

Comment from rmz on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T03:10:22Z

@trai_dep: I'm sorry, "The Evil Empire" is a registered trademark of the AT&T corporation.

Comment from Scooter on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T01:57:53Z

Who ya gunna call?

Comment from IRSistherootofallevil on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T01:08:57Z

And for good reason.

Comment from IRSistherootofallevil on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T01:08:40Z

No, we don't fear walmart. We DESPISE walmart.

Comment from faust1200 on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T00:55:09Z

A WalMart ghost is a fallacy because a ghost would imply there was a soul.

Comment from ltlbbynthn on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T00:50:38Z

@atalantapendragonne: well, Pepsi Max is awesome ;-P jk

Comment from Hobo-NC on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T00:40:04Z

This is perfect. Fear of Walmart on this site is as rational as a fear of ghosts.

Comment from Lin-Z [linguist on duty] on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T00:29:09Z

facebook is making me want to use it less and less.

Comment from atalantapendragonne on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T00:27:31Z

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.

Comment from ancientsociety on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T00:07:21Z

Ghost "cookie" w/ Walmart logo on it....hmmmm

Social commentary, Accidental Irony, or leftovers from the last Walmart corporate meeting?

Comment from louisb3 on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T00:00:41Z

@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!").

Comment from mopar_man on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:57:12Z

@takotchi:

That's because Skittles are enjoyable. Wal-Mart is not.

Comment from mopar_man on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:56:35Z

I sent one (cause that's all the allow you to send) to a friend with a message that said "I HATE WAL-MART!!!"

Comment from aro on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:55:57Z

@louisb3: no it is a regular FB gift that are usually $1, it is just free...not one of the tacky applications

Comment from drjayphd on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:55:21Z

@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.

Comment from takotchi on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:50:10Z

There was a free Skittles gift on Facebook and nobody complained about that. At least... not that I know of.

Comment from louisb3 on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:48:30Z

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.

Comment from Trai_Dep on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:42:17Z

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.

Comment from Anonymous on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:37:39Z

hey wal-mart cookies are all i can afford. lol. but i had one and they are pretty good!

Comment from thewriteguy on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:36:48Z

Facebook is becoming a corporate branded mess, just like MySpace.

Comment from Binaryslyder on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:31:04Z

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.

Comment from elmyc on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:18:42Z

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

Comment from Steel_Pelican on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:16:04Z

[Insert Totenkopf Reference here]

[Insert outrage]

[Insert "what's the big deal" sentiments]

Comment from Nighthawk Foo on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:15:51Z

Nah, it's just full of hydrogenated oils.

Comment from PinkBox on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:02:07Z

Why would anyone want to "gift" a fellow facebook user with a walmart cookie? (except as a joke :P)

Comment from IRSistherootofallevil on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T22:58:10Z

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.