How Much Can You Make Off 1 Million Facebook Users?
If 999,999 People Join This Group My Dad Won’t Kick Me Out
19 year old Tiffany Stewart came home drunk one Saturday night and got caught by her father. Now he is going to be kicked her out of the house for being a problem child.
I tried to explain to my dad that it is normal for people my age to experiment with alcohol (most of my friends drink every weekend) - and that he is over reacting by kicking me out! I rarely drink and when I do it’s with friends I trust and we have a sobar driver! Dad thinks that NO ONE my age has ever consumed alcohol, and that I’m just a problem child. Since he refuses to “support my alternative lifestyle” I’m getting the boot.
Fortunately, Tiffany’s step mom stepped in and struck up a bargain. If the drunken 19 year old can find one million people that drank by age 20 and still turned out OK in life, she gets to stay. Tiffany is person #1. She only need to find 999,999 more. You can help her reach her goal by joining her Facebook group. In the five days the group has been up, the group had amassed over 11,000 members and growing at an amazing rate.
Then again, who wouldn’t want to join a group made up of drunken party girls? Tiffany is the blonde at the center.
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The winner of this auction will get a link to their website posted in the group information (it will be the official URL of the group and will be the sole link displayed in the group). We will also write whatever you want about the website in the News section, and will encourage all members to visit the website! Your link will remain for the entire life of the group (you will still be getting hits from this group 12 months down the road).
The current bid is $6.50. A test link was posted for 14 hours on September 11th (when the group was at 4300 members) and received 561 clicks. Imagine how many clicks you’ll get once the group gets over a million members?
Real Situation or Evil Marketer at Work?
The Facebook group says Tiffany Stewart is from Charlotte, NC. However, I can’t find her individual Facebook profile. A search turned up a bunch of Tiffany Stewart, but none from Charlotte. The eBay auction was set up by some guy name Ben of Halifax, Nova Scotia (East coast of Canada). It looks like Ben created this group just to sell the sponsorship spot. I am not sure if Tiffany Stewart is real or if she is really being kicked out of the house, or if she even knows Ben. What I do know is the MySpacing of Facebook has begun.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to create a million user Facebook group. How does, “Join This Group or I’ll Kill The Panda!” sound?
*Update - It looks like Facebook reads my blog. They have removed the group. As a result, Ben has removed the eBay auction.
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And now the downhill of FaceBook starts… dun dun dunnnnnn!!!
Reply to this commentWell I am not going to be sorry to see it fall thats forsure.
Reply to this commentThat was coming, since facebook have been on press
Now you will see bunch of e-books (How to make money with facebook, bla bla) may be Joe comm will come with an e-book about facebook? 
Reply to this commentHaha!!! Maybe is JohnChow readers should take advantage of this fad early and effin BANK! HAHA!
Reply to this commentor johnchow should make another free ebook about facebook?
(love the word free).
Reply to this commentSeems like he got caught.
John i think you should run a facebook group called “The internet investigator”
seems like whoever tries a scam scheme and orders a reviewme on you gets caught like a rabbit in the angle of the room by a very angry pitbull.
Reply to this comment“If something is about to fall off a cliff, it deserves to be pushed.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
Alright guys. Lets turn this motha out.
Reply to this commentAh…. I seriously hope not. Facebook can’t fall. =(
Reply to this commentHahah. I smell a rat, but I joined the group anyways.
Monetization is really starting to run rampant on Facebook. I hope it doesn’t get stupid like MySpace.
Reply to this commentlol i joined just because they are all hot
Reply to this commentLOL
They really are 
I like the middle girl…
Reply to this commenti’m moving to that state.
Reply to this commenthaha…like that also can
Reply to this commentThere were several plots of this type done already. If 50,000 join this group, I will blow up my car and videotape it and show it to the world. There were others of this sort done already.
Radio stations are already using Facebook as a marketing tool. “Help Joe Blow win $5,000 from 99.3 FOX!!!” and they all create these groups, try to get their friends to jionm to get the largest group by the deadline. And every single group has to display the 99.3 FOX logo or soemthing like that.
Reply to this commentHow could you kill a cute little Panda?
Reply to this commentEasy… here are a few simple ways to kill even the cutest of pandas:
- Blender.
- Lawn Mower.
- Knife.
- Gun.
- Car.
- Pond + Cemented Feet.
You get the idea, as you can see it’s pretty easy, just get creative!
Reply to this commentDoes it blend?
Reply to this commentBlended Panda. Sounds like an energy drink or something.
Reply to this commentThat is sick…..but very funny!!!
Reply to this commentThe best way to kill a panda is with rocks!
Reply to this commentYou don’t need to kill a panda. They will die of on their own eventually.
Reply to this commentI once killed a panda with a goat.. pretty messy.
Reply to this commentYou rock, John!
/rimshot
Reply to this commenthahaha.. that is pretty funny
Reply to this commentI wouldn’t put it past…the internet to come up with a fake scheme like this. All you need is a sob story and a hot girl. Look at all the suckers that pass around those chain letters.
Reply to this commentI also joined the group too, but I just joined Facebook a day or two ago. Hearing how fast Facebook is growing, I had to join to see what is going on.
I hated it though, it was hard to add friends unlike Myspace. Myspace is a lot better for making money and getting traffic if you ask me.
Reply to this commentI’ll join, Just Don’t Shoot The Panda!
Reply to this commentLOL
Darin
Me too, where do I send money to?
Reply to this commentEveryone visit my blog right now or my children will go hungry and unconceived!
Reply to this commentOK OK I’ll do!
Reply to this commentI don’t believe this is true.. The girls are too hot!
Having said that if you have a facebook group you lose the group message function at 1000 members… which sucks!
Reply to this commentYou call’em HOT?
Seems you haven’t seen a real hot girl!
Reply to this commentThese are some plastic dolls I’d say…
Well come on, their not ugly are they?
And I would definately take them out…
Reply to this commentI wonder if those girls gave permission to have themselves exploited by some Canadian.
Reply to this commentyou’re evil John
if you kill the panda!!!! kill stiffany’s alcoholic hormones instead…
Reply to this commentWhere did the quote from Ben go?
Decided to keep it private ay? Doesn’t he realise facebookers also use ebay and will suss this guy out.
Getting hold of the admin for a million user account would be worthwhile though, good email marketing through facebook. The link on the page wouldnt do much but if he offered a few emails IF he gets to the million, it would be worth something.
Reply to this commentSeeing scams like this makes me sad…. However, the above comments about killing pandas makes me laugh. I’m torn.
Reply to this commentMySpace sucks for many reasons, among them of course is the rampant spam… Can’t say I haven’t tried it though. I suppose it can work. I’m not that big on piggybacking other sites though. Make your own monkey I scream!
BTW, John, I very much enjoy the title of your site.
Reply to this commentObama came home for lunch. Pictures on kabatology. We could all fake a story
Reply to this commentomg, oh well I bidded
Reply to this commentWow, this story does sound fishy and I would be really suspicious about it. Definitely an “evil” way to get people to join their group.
Reply to this commentfake story
but I’ve joined just to see what will happen
Reply to this commentJohn - you big fat liar. Even you wouldn’t be evil enough to kill a panda. Mmm - that reminds me - I’ve been written a post about bloggers who are big fat liars today.
Reply to this commentCan you still kill a Panda if the group does get 1 million evil users? This sounds a lot like that cooking a bunny website.
Reply to this commentI’m pretty sure the whole thing is a scam, but I’m the auction’s high bidder (for the moment, anyway), because scam or not, it’ll still get a ton of traffic and be a great marketing tool for my site Pic.gs
Reply to this commentI really hope it’s legit or else I’ll lose more of my faith of humanity, but a part of me thinks there is evil going on.
You do bring an important point. This is a critical to see if facebook’s API will work.
My view is that it is working. I wouldn’t have found out about this stupid thing unless someone like John Chow brought it up!
Give me my time back!
Reply to this commentDon’t know about this, looks a little scammy. We’ll have to wait and see after the auction ends.
Reply to this commentI’ll provide the panda if I get a link back
Or maybe my offer is as fake as this Facebook group.
Reply to this commentThe group link forwards to my facebook index page instead of the group. Anyone else having a problem?
Reply to this commentWe’re the corporation behind this
Reply to this commentFacebook just deleted the group outright - no warnings!
I have consequently closed the eBay auction, my apologizes to those who bidded!
Looks like Facebook is not the new MySpace when it comes to Internet marketing hehe
Facebook is by far superior to MySpace when it comes to marketing. You’re not evil enough to cover your tracks. Geez…lonelygirl15 was fake and it took people close to a year to figure it out. If you’re going to fake something on the internet, you have to do it well.
Reply to this commentYeah, maybe you should have included a couple of munters in the picture to throw people of the trail.
Reply to this commentI don’t know about you, but I’d like to ask each girl in that photo:
“Vood u like to go vo a roll in de hay?”
Reply to this commentAwesome movie. A month or two ago they had a pop-up video type of thing going on with Young Frankenstain on AMC. Alot of cool behind the scenes stuff.
Reply to this commentDefinitely an interesting way to make money…don’t believe the whole story - at all.
Reply to this commentI think the group has been deleted…cuz of it’s scamness.
Reply to this commentI WAS the high bidder (gotblack is me). They (she) canceled all bids and closed the auction.
Reply to this commentDefinitely an evil marketing scheme, yet super bright.
Reply to this commentNice story but it’s a great link bait
Reply to this commentHaha…that’s how you know you’re blog has too much leverage…when a billion dollar website listens to what you’re saying…
Reply to this commentIts a great link bait by the girls, i thought you had already attempt murder on that small panda?
Reply to this commentdamn, you ruined it john. ugh, your so detestable.
Reply to this commentThanks a lot John. You just have to blog about everything… damn you!!
Kidding, nice work. Groups like that shouldn’t be allowed.
Reply to this commentWay to ruin his scheme, lol.
Reply to this commentHaha, John you will get the banned button if you make that group
Its like Google and their Adsense banning spree 
Reply to this commentGreat stuff - you guys are CRAZY.
Reply to this commentWhat a bunch of ****ing sluts, they’ll never amount to anything. Good dad in my opinion.
Reply to this commentShows you can think of anything ridiculous and people would still support you anyway.
Reply to this commentI definitely have intentions to try it out. I already set one group up for my science site and I will be setting another one up soon for another one of my sites. I may do a case study about it and if it does well, I’ll let everyone know. This is a great way for viral marketing and could really spread like wild fire.
Reply to this commentI don’t drink, so very sorry guys I can’t be of any help to make the count touch to 999, 999.
Reply to this commentGreat concept in viral marketing. Spot on target with demographics. Need to be alittle more professional in covering tracks. Also, think things out alittle bit better so most people don’t yell “SCAM!” when they hear/read it.
Reply to this commentIt was a good idea but the guy was an idiot you dont auction off something like that you use your own sites.
Reply to this commentIt looked like bullsh*t from the start. What a waste of time. It could have been done so much better, like if it was even remotely believable compared to that ludicrous story.
Reply to this commentI knew that photo looked too good to be true! lol
Reply to this commenti won’t join her group, but she can stay at my place when she gets kicked out of the house
Reply to this commentVery interesting to watch the whole story unfold. As Facebook is the new ‘in thing’ there will be many more stunts like this (remember the copy cat pages of the million dollar pixel page). I wonder if we will be all talking about Facebook this time next year or if there will be a new kid on the block.
Reply to this commentHaving had three stepmothers, I knew it wasn’t for real. Tiffany’s step mother was way to cool.
Reply to this commentI would’ve joined just for the brunette.
Reply to this commentI’d kick her out too.
Reply to this commentEverybody involved could use spelling lessons. Maybe that’s my commercial success story. Spelling lessons for scammers…. and bloggers.
Reply to this commentlol That is priceless. That last Panda line floored me.
Reply to this commentI didn’t read the post John, but I will. I simply stopped by because you made my morning infinitely more enjoyable by sharing the photo of… well, who cares who they are!
Reply to this commentYep, sounds like an evil genius at work. And probably a rich one.
Reply to this commentThis sounds like another scam thing to me!
Reply to this commentLMAO Too funny lol
Reply to this commentChow you are a creepy old man
Reply to this commentChicks in skimpy clothing = attention
Reply to this commentYea, it almost seems like a scam, as i think other have pointed out… ‘hot girls + sob story’ = seen it all before
Reply to this commentIt’s evil of course. You are basically trying to sell adv space on a website not yours!!!
Reply to this commentlooks like they ended the auction … wonder why?
Reply to this commentLOL
Darin
The auction has been relisted without a link to the group
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150161651909
Reply to this commentDamn, the 2nd and 3rd(middle) in that pic are awesome!
And good analysis too john on the way facebook is heading, nice to see they removed the group
Reply to this commentNope, still on!
Reply to this commenthttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5795801521
joined. its up to 13,000 members now.
Reply to this commentwow … when I read it got shut down, I thought, that poor girl is gonna get kicked out now. LOL
Reply to this commentDarin
“*Update - It looks like Facebook reads my blog. They have removed the group. As a result, Ben has removed the eBay auction.”
Hahah, but its back up and going… but i would be cautious about buying the auction as it could go down and disappear without any recourse.. unless the price still stays cheap, then it might be worth it.. .lol
Reply to this commentInteresting story looks like it was just link bait.
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