http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/groupon-super-bowl-ads/
Please join me in speaking up against Groupon by commenting on their blog, using twitter etc. Their Super Bowl ads, especially the one focusing on Tibet, were completely tasteless. Using humor to draw attention to the absurdity of a horrific occurrence is often successful, but Groupon failed to do so. Instead, their ads promote selfish and ignorant behavior. If they were attempting to be ironic or “poke fun at themselves” as they claim, they were mistaken to believe that the Super Bowl audience would understand. Their message “save money” essentially told millions of people to not care about saving Tibet, the rainforest etc. Maybe Groupon believes that bad press is better than no press, and I am hesitant to draw more attention to it, but I believe there should be a public outcry that we will not stand for this kind of humorless trash from what has otherwise been a great service. Groupon should publicly apologize to the Tibetan people, and instead of donating money only when customers do, they should take at least a portion of the millions spent on their disgraceful commercials and donate it to Tibet.
”Les Bulles” over Grenoble, France by zap358
The Grenoble-Bastille Cable car is the first urban cable car in the world. The French call it ‘Les Bulles’ which means The bubbles.
