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."

Comments

They should take it one step further

[bigtrike]

They should go a step further and allow college students to network with the 9 year old children making the products they're buying.

Re:This is *exactly* why

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

So...

[g0dsp33d]

Walmart bursts into a community where its not wanted and people there complain. They must be turning over a new leaf.

Re:This is *exactly* why

[Phantom of the Opera]

You need one of those ancient "greeters" as gate-keepers on the system. I don't even let people post comments on *my* lowly page without approving them first, how can they be so naive? Would they pay the greeter a decent wage? But seriously, how many would they have to hire to keep up?

Corporate Web 2.0 is a dumb idea anyway

[ErichTheRed]

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.

Hypoxia

[MillionthMonkey]

Penn and Teller have spent too much time underwater for me to trust their opinion of Wal-Mart.

Re:I don't get it

[Snowspinner]

Ugh. Don't mod me up when I screw up spelling and grammar that badly!

Re:Just an incredibly banal version of the Borg...

[karnal]

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.)

Oh no.

[vinividivici]

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.

Re:I don't get it

[bladesjester]

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.