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SAS Globe of (Facebook) Fortune

Viral marketing has new face. Now it’s all about playing “with” your friends, and by “with” I mean “using” your friends to win something. The latest example comes from Northern Europe where the airline SAS has launched an online competition that takes advantage of Facebook Connect to give away flight tickets to a series of destinations around the world.

The mechanism is pretty simple. You select your departure airport (only Scandinavia unfortunately), you spin the globe to find out your destination and then the system connects to your Facebook profile to randomly pick a friend you will travel with. But the game isn’t over yet: in order to actually win the tickets you have to write a nice motivation on why you and friend should travel together.

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