Thursday 31 January 2008
Facebook's Gone Carrot Crazy.
First it was “Bring Back the Wispa”, now Facebook are in the news again with a slightly different campaign…
To buy Carrots.
Thousands of people from all over the world have joined a group on the social networking site, which encourages the participants to go out “panic buy” the veg.
Over 91,000 users have joined the Facebook group called “On May 15, 2008, everybody needs to go out and panic buy carrots”.
I was invited to this group and wisely I clicked “ignore”…I wonder why?
But there were obviously some people up for the challenge!
The members plan to go out at 2pm on May 15th and buy as many carrots as they can.
I can see ASDA and Tesco rubbing their hands together thinking…Kerching!!
But what on earth are 91,000 people going to do with their weight in carrots. Surely you can only have so many without turning, well…Orange!
Fortunately, someone thought of this and added a sister-site (also on Facebook) suggesting ways of using up the vegetables.
They suggest May 16th should be a "taproot-based generosity and carroty philanthropy".
This is helping the homeless to you and me.
The 986 members plan to use their carrots to make soup and other dishes to give to the needy.
All sounds well and good but what about those that don’t eat vegetables? Another night without supper?
However, the group created by student Freya Valentine, has aroused criticism. Apparently it isn’t fair to deprive other shoppers of carrots.
What?! Surely there is enough to go around!
In protest, another Facebook group has also been created named…"Don't add to world hunger, don't panic-buy carrots".
I very much doubt that’s how world hunger started, but I am sure the 29 members will definitely make a difference.
One thing is for sure…91,000 people will be able to see better in the dark by the end of May!
Join the carrot campaign at:
http://uclan.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9801981146
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I got invited to that group as well. I also got invited to an event called Earth Hour, where they plan on getting as many people as possible to switch off lights & electricity for one hour to save the planet and protest and so forth. On the face of it that sounds like a good idea, and one I'll blog about later, but better practice would be to teach more responsible use of electricity in the first place.
For a start, those massive CRT tellys and monitors use a shedload more lecky than the flatscreen ones, so the govt should be making them cheaper (subsidies and the like). And why doesn't my student house have a recycling bin/box? Or a wind turbine and some solar panels? Doing that would make a real impact...
http://sunderland.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8240986531
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