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Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site
hhavensteincw writes "Only two weeks after Wal-Mart launched its latest foray into Web 2.0 land, Facebook users have hijacked a page aimed at selling back-to-school supplies to college kids to instead post rants about the company's labor practices. Of the 100-plus comments, none relates to dorm decorating as Wal-Mart had originally envisioned."
They should go a step further and allow college students to network with the 9 year old children making the products they're buying.
Their "forway" into Web 2.0? I don't get it. Did he mean four way into Web 2.0? It does look like they're getting f*cked.
Halliburton also has a new web 2.0 site. It helps governments find military contractors to deal with their "acute PR issues."
Walmart bursts into a community where its not wanted and people there complain. They must be turning over a new leaf.
lol: You see no door there!
In California, living alone is is practically a luxury.
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.
This made me think of the Far Side strip where a demon is greeting newcomers to hell and the sign behind him says "This is the first day of the rest of your life."
In fact hell has been working on a "Web 2.0 style" social network for ages. I can't wait to meet up with all my friends there.
Every company is now trying to jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. It's the equivalent of a guy trying to be cool in a hip. trendy nightclub wearing a pair of plaid golf pants.
It really surprises me that marketing departments don't take one look at the concept of a corporate Facebook page, MySpace page, or Second Life presence and fire the idiot who produced it.
Imagine trying to sell life insurance to a bunch of skater dudes drinking Mountain Dew...that's the success rate this will have.
>the cheep stuff
Birds?
Penn and Teller have spent too much time underwater for me to trust their opinion of Wal-Mart.
Maybe they should hire Chad.
Ugh. Don't mod me up when I screw up spelling and grammar that badly!
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No, what .. didnt you say you already joined facebook?
Wal-mart just has cheap socks and asshole management.
I've heard the older you get, the more you might need asshole management. (I read that sentence wrong.)
Karnal
As a vegetarian, I for one appreciate (greatly) any establishment that does not cook meat. I do not particularly want my chickpea and lentil burger tasting like a $20 steak thank you very much.
Note: I am vegetarian, but do not think the above (well maybe a secret 0.5 - 1%). However, I hope you get my point though?
Don't apologize. Using poor grammar and butchering the english language is every Slashdotter's God-given right.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
http://www.last.fm/user/Wal_Mart
I heard that SOMETIMES people even vandalize Wikipedia! I can't believe people these days! Seriously, what is the point of posting an article that pertains to a single page on a massive social networking site? Get a blog.
I was in a wal-mart at 2am one night because I realized that I needed some things for a trip the next morning and couldn't pick them up on my way out of town.
I get to the checkout and in front of me are two guys and a girl. The guys had matching tatoos on their necks that read "100% Honky"
I kid you not. I nearly choked because I was trying very hard not to laugh.
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Those people aren't forced to shop at Wal-Mart. They choose to shop at Wal-Mart because that's only place you can get genuine Dale Earnhardt Jr. 50/50 cotton/poly underwear.
What?
"You're arguing for a universe with fewer waffles in it," I said. "I'm prepared to call that cowardice."