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03/08/2010 by
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Put Your Facebook Friends In A Horror Trailer!

Putting your Facebook friends in a horror trailer can be pretty scary or entertaining. But how about privacy?

Last year the Dutch Ministry of Justice released the award winning Stanislav campaign. This viral received many positive, but also negative publicity.

The campaign, which was made to raise the awareness around privacy on the internet topic, used information from profiles of Dutch leading social network Hyves, that was set to private.

Nevertheless Stanislav was very successful, and perhaps inspired Swisscom to release a similar technical concept, using your Facebook profile and 9 of your preferred friends:

Lost in Val Sinestra
See the promotional video for the viral below:

The viral is a great piece of technology, using the Facebook API. On this website, you can make a Facebook connection, the tool automatically connects to your profile and picks 9 random profiles from your friends.

The result is a great trailer where information and pictures from the selected profiles are perfectly integrated.

A nice detail is that the hotel used in the viral, Val Sinestre, really exists, perhaps a great location for your seventieth birthday?

Anyway, check out my version of the trailer here.

Some screenshots from the trailer:

My Opinion?
My question is if this campaign will receive negative publicity again, especially as privacy is a hot topic around Facebook these days.

What About You?
What do you think: Love it or hate it? Privacy problem or no problem at all?

Source: SocialMediaConsultancy.nl