You can sell your stuff on Craigslist, you can even sell "yourself"... but please don't sell your pets!

Recently, a kitten was purchased off of Craigslist.com, a Web site which "provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community and events." It's similar to the Marketplace on Facebook, if you're more familiar with that.

The person who purchased the baby kitten immediately surrendered it at a local animal shelter because the kitten, Lindsey, was far too young and should not have been separated from her mother yet. Like all baby kittens, Lindsey should not have been separated from her parents for at least eight weeks of age. They do not know how to socialize or properly feed and groom themselves, and this could eventually lead to some serious problems.

The concern here is that people use Craigslist to "get rid of" their pets when they're unable to take care of them. Many people do this without thinking of the animal's well-being. If you are unable to care for an animal, whether it be a baby or an older pet, contact your local animal shelter. There you will be able to surrender your pet, and the shelter will take care of it and provide for it until it is ready to be adopted and brought into a new home by another family.

So, continue to use Craigslist (or Facebook Marketplace) to sell or search for jobs, cars, housing and even a significant other.... but don't use it to buy or sell your pet! :)

BFF... or BK?

Just something I found a little interesting and thought I'd share...

After our discussion with today's guest speaker about how businesses use social networking, I found an article that I thought was a little interestig. I read an article about "defriending" (or "unfriending," whatever works for you) people on Facebook. This article mentioned a Burger King campaign that promised a free Whopper for every 10 friends you could "defriend" on Facebook to prove that a sandwich from Burger King is worth sacrificing friendships for. Once you deleted ten friends, you got a coupon or something for a free Whopper.

Personally, I really didn't like the idea for this campaign. I can admit, I am Facebook "friends" with a ton of people that I hardly know, and even some I've never met, so defriending someone really wouldn't be THAT big of a deal, and perhaps I wouldn't mind if they deleted me either. But the part about the campaign that kinda bugs me is that Burger King then notifies those ex-friends that you deleted them for a Whopper... sorry, but I would rather not know why, than to find out someone chose a sandwich (or should I say, a tenth of a sandwich) over me :( I think BK was trying too hard to get involved with the whole Facebook/social networking craze... but I don't really think they made it work.

Anyway, after reading more, I found that BK decided to end the campaign instead of adjusting it to "fit" Facebook's policy (since Facebook does not notify the friends you delete). I just found this interesting... I wonder how popular it was? I never heard about it until now.

So I want to know, what do you think about this? Do you think it helped or hurt Burger King? What about their reputation? Leave your thoughts and comments!