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Pepsi Creates a Social Network Vending Machine
RedEaredSlider writes "Now even vending machines are getting in on the social media act. Pepsi has rolled out a new machine that can send a soda to a friend, using a Facebook-like functionality. From the article: 'Along with buying a soda with either cash or credit, the Social Vending System allows people to send a user a soda as a gift. All they have to do is enter the recipient's name, mobile number and a personalized text message. Consumers can even send a video along with the gift. Once received, the recipient will learn where they can redeem it.'"
Someone sent you some high fructose corn syrup, I mean, some corn sugar!
With friends like these...
Don't you know, how hard it is to get mobile numbers of people? They're not in the usual standard listings...
But Pepsi will be happy to sell their data for a fee!!
The FBI must love this - think of the consequences on the Witness Protection Program!
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
This begins to explain the idea behind bottle caps as currency I suppose....
When will the social networking hoopla simply die?
When humans stop wanting to interact with other humans? Technically, going out to a restaurant with friends is social networking, right?
Other humans? What human are you interacting with when your little geek fingers are furiously typing in your latest tweet or facebook entry? You are interacting with a machine, which is interacting, via the network, with another machine in Salt Lake City or Prineville. Social it may be, if we allow a generous stretching of the definition, but it is a damned far cry from "human interaction".