Wednesday, September 20, 2006

It was good for me

I am sure that everyone on facebook these days is part of some type of group. I recently joined, though I am ashamed, the group that was going to help a guy have a threesome. The story behind the group was that if this guy named Brody Ruckus could put together a group that managed to gain over 100,000 member before the semester ended then he would get to have a threesome with his girlfriend.

Somehow a stupid idea became a facebook phenomenon. Within three days the group already had the requested 100,000 members. The group became a viral marketers dream. The group was passed peer to peer faster than news. The history of the group goes like this.

Basically, the group was created on 9/5/06 and was deleted by Facebook on 9/13/06. In 8 days the group reached 428,944 members. There are now over 400 groups on facebook using the word threesome in it. Most are related to the original group. There are now doubts as to what Brody Ruckus' motives were. The obvious explanation and honest one might not be the true reason.

Some believe that it was all a guerilla marketing sham. He is now well known and has made money from the shirts that he sell through his new website. He still maintains that he plans to release photos and a video of the threesome that has not yet occurred.

I think that this kid had an idea that worked, nothing more. He thought of something original that hadn't been done on facebook and somehow the word was sent out. Every guy that heard of the group felt that it was his matriarchal duty to help. I joined the ranks after seeing how fast the group had sprang from nothing. Like a match it burned brightly and disappeared.

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