Friendship is priceless. But only 37 cents per friend on Facebook is still a good deal. Do you offer more for your friendship?

Human kind has been finally capable to quote the just value of  friendship and find the advantage of it: “If you’re experiencing a bit of bloat on your Facebook friend list, you can snag a free burger by dropping 10 of your Facebook friends, courtesy of Burger King.”  For only 37 cents per friend, as The New York Times reports.

Given the irreplaceable social and therapeutic value of Facebook, at least I would have expected a coke with that burger!  After all, the social network, with its implicit and ongoing “who has more friends” contest,  makes ourselves as an added value for the other, providing  an overall priceless and philantropic service: somewhere between a 24/7 free psychoanalytical therapy session to reassure our ego about our social importance, displayed and achieved through a virtual social network legitimizing our existence, and a  pronto shot of vanity that makes us constantly update our current status, because the world (Facebook’s world of course) is in constant need of that vital information about us. God forbid our friends are not updated on whether we’re peeing or reflecting over the world’s unfairness (maybe, because we need to pee while on the bus and thank god for our Blackberry that gives us the chance to immediately inform  Facebook about our inner issues stimulated by the bumpy ride).

 If it’s true that we are what we eat, then we’re all potential dropped friends on Facebook worth only a 37 cents bite of a burger, courtesy of Burger King. 

Who offers more for your friendship?  The auction is officially opened.