McDonalds on Bebo

March 4th, 2008 at 11:50 am by David Farrar

The Southland Times has a story about a page on Bebo purporting to be from former or current McDonalds staff there.

I chatted to the reporter for quite a while about what alternatives were open to the McDonalds. They quote:

Technology commentator David Farrar, of Wellington, said McDonald’s could ask the site’s makers to remove its logos and intellectual property, but not order it to be removed in New Zealand, he said.

He suggested the best tact for McDonald’s would be to not over-react.

McDonalds seem to sensibly be avoiding an over-reaction:

Invercargill McDonald’s owner Trevor Rogan, who was unaware of the site when approached by The Southland Times said he was concerned about the content on the site.

However, neither he nor McDonald’s national headquarters would be trying to shut down the site, saying it was “freedom of speech”.

Mr Rogan’s concerns centred on the language used, the official McDonald’s logo being used on the site, and the 20 drive-through rules.

The site is obviously tongue in cheek and I doubt anyone would take a Bebo page as being an official McDonalds site. Especially one that advocates if there are drunk people in your car you shoudl tell them to shut the f**k up

Tags: Bebo, DPF, Humour, Invercargill, McDonalds, Southland Times

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4 Responses to “McDonalds on Bebo”

Buggerlugs (1,609) Says:
March 4th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I’ve just been in to pick up the three SI daily papers – they ran this as their front page lead! Either they’ve got a fucked up sense of what’s news, or nothing else happened in Invercargill yesterday. What will it be tomorrow: “Neighbour says child’s MySpace page ‘sucks’”? “Car salesman gets rude email”?
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RRM (7,207) Says:
March 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I guess the papers thought it might turn into a good scrap between the employees and Mackas…?
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3-coil (1,144) Says:
March 4th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Well that’s it for me – I’ll never eat KFC again!
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Rex Widerstrom (4,965) Says:
March 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
dont try tlkn 2 me bout my day … i work at maccas … how th … do u think my days going??

Could it be the Soup Nazi is now working at McDonalds in Southland? :-O
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