Krispy Kreme Really Drops the Dough

By: Morgana Kennedy

 

Someone at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts thought they were being klever when they came up with the name for their promotion titled, Krispy Kreme Klub, according to an article written by Blathnaid Healy.

Unfortunately for the delicious doughnut dynamo's (see what I did there?), their fans were quick to remind them that three K's often stand for something much more sinister than carbohydrate overload.

The event, that is still scheduled to take place Feb. 18, took fans of the companies' Facebook page on a one way trip to awkwardly offended town when they chose to promote it as KKK Wednesday. Over 200,000 people are fans of the page, and many of them were not amused with the play on words.

The company may not be able to remove the foot from its mouth, but it was swift on removing the post. They also issued an apology, which may be hard to find since the Facebook page is gone.

If men in pointy hats slinging hateful racial obscenities don't put you off your doughnut cravings, then take a trip to the Krispy Kreme store in Hull for the event formally known as KKK Wednesday.

I'll leave you with the words of Homer Simpson, D'oh!

The Facebook is falling and I can't get up!

Man your battle stations Facebook was sunk! For an hour. 

Hello! I'm Morgana Kennedy. I am a college student at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. I will be delving into the world of new media in each of my blog posts throughout the next couple of months.

This is my first blog post, and I couldn't think of a better way to start a blog dedicated to social media news than the great Facebook/Instagram outage of 2015. Yesterday, January 27, 2015, Facebook and Instagram went down for an hour. Yes, I said that right, an entire hour of potential social media usage was disabled due to technical difficulties. In the life of a key stroker this was internity, or internet eternity as some may like to refer to it.

The San Jose Mercury News  reacted by trying to make light of the situation posting an article full of twitter users' reaction to the interntity of down social media. Even the ever serious CNN seemed to find humor in this travesty on eye to screen viewing time.

Regardless of these news organization's reaction, the fact still remains that Facebook went down for over a million users in the United States, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The internet is not concerned with time or space, so every second wasted not posting a check-in, selfie, instagram advertisement, or hashtag is valuable. I hope that these millions of users that were stranded on the lonely streets of the social media highway recovered unscathed from this hiccup.