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"People will go to unbelievable lengths for Facebook friends or fans. Remember the guy who said he'd get a tattoo if 25,000 people joined his Facebook group? Well at least that was entertaining (and novel) for the time. \nNow, a man is offering to name his son Batman if he can get 500,000 to become fans of his Facebook page.Although I've seen radio DJs volunteer to legally change their own name if the station (or the DJ himself) reaches a certain goal, I have to admit that auctioning off a child's name for Facebook friends is pretty unique. As for naming your son \"Batman,\" well, when I was three I did want to name my future child \"Grill.\" Incidentally this is one reason I probably shouldn't have children.\n\nThere are currently about 486,000 fans, so chances are he'll reach his goal sometime today. The page admin is encouraging fans to give him their e-mail addresses so that he can e-mail him the birth certificate once his son is born. Sounds to me like the \"media\" company behind the whole thing just wants 500,000 e-mail addresses.\nThis whole carnival attraction is designed to promote a media company, and as AllFacebook points out, there are questions about whether a Facebook Page designed to promote one thing (instead of achieving the proposed goal) is against the terms of service.\nTOS or not, offering to name your kid \"Batman\" for fans just strikes us as well, creepy. Want to get really creepy? Check out the t-shirts. Yes. T-shirts.\nWhat do you think about Facebook \"I'll Do X for Y Friends\" campaigns? Ridiculous? Pathetic? Or entertaining and effective? Let us know!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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