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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.'"
how far would you go to get a free soda?
I could see a lot of malls and other establishments that want more foot traffic buying into this.
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I call "social networking bubble". Where can I short-sell?
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
How long until we get a story about how someone totally empties one of these without paying for a single one?
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
I've had quite a few times that I didn't have change and wanted a soda. If I could send myself a soda (paid by credit card, or Google Checkout, or whatever) and walk up to a machine and enter a code to get it, I'd probably do it. Other vending items would work as well.
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Previously, I had to buy two sodas, and then hand one of the sodas to friend.
With the magic of social networking and Pepsi, now I only have two buy two sodas, enter a phone number, enter a greeting, record a video, and send a free soda code to a friend's mobile device, which they can use to access the same machine and retrieve a free soda.
A real friend would send me a Coke.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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!
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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".
so being social is:
- Being holed up in your room in front of a big bright blue screen
- "Liking" things that you would scoff at if presented to IRL
- Wasting your time watering plants that probably won't result in anything tangible whatsoever
- If you manage to get out of the house, stare at the small bright blue screen all the way until you reach another big bright blue screen
- Tasing someone who pokes you in reality
- AND NOW, going to the vending machine, dying of thirst and bleeding out of your parched throat, only to find out that you just paid for a cola for Joe in Anchorage, AK with your last dollar bill.
Clap clap clap.