We Were Given a Warning for 2020 & Now Its Too Late...
In 2011 We Were Asked to "Take This Lollipop."
At a time when the worries of Facebook privacy was not as heightened as it is today, we were given a glimpse of how our personal information could be used in a nefarious way.
In 2011 we were first asked to “take this lollipop” and since then, Facebook privacy has become part of our daily conversion. Facebook and its (lack of) privacy has since changed our world in many ways.
Over the passed 9 years, the lessons learned from Take This Lollipop have faded into the background.
In 2018, the Take This Lollipop app / video was removed and replaced with a warning on takethislollipop.com:
“A few months ago, we took Take This Lollipop offline. It moved to the dark web where it’s been mutating into something else.”
It appears that whatever it has mutated into is being brought to the surface. The following cryptic video has recently appeared with the ominous title “Lollipop. October 2020.”
The original post we made in 2011...
Have you taken the Lollipop? Would you? If you would, you’re not alone. More than ten million people have.
What!? You wouldn’t take the lollipop – are you sure? I don’t beleive you. You’ve probably already taken more than a few ‘lollipops’.
Don’t Think So?
Check your Facebook “Account” setting, go to “Apps” in the left column. I’ll help you – click here. Now what do you see? Yeah, I thought so.
Haven’t heard about the Lollipop? You will. However, like a good movie, pardon the pun, I’m reluctant to tell you too much lest I give away the ending.
Anyway, what I really want to talk about is the moral of the story – be careful what you share with who, and who you connect with.
Now go check out the Lollipop! Do it NOW. Then come back here and tell me what you think. 
17 thoughts on “Take This Lollipop”
I wondered why I was getting so many emails from orgs I had not shared it with. I had no idea so many apps could access not only my information but also that of my friends. Most of my apps are for social justice sites, but still, I found it unnerving.
No lollipops though.
Thanks for sharing about the insidious effects clicking on an app can have on one’s private life.
I really don’t think I would take the website lollipop…………..
me too
First time we’ve heard of this marketing campaign, actually. A brilliant idea, and it’ll be interesting to see where they take the sequel.
Since I’m absolutely unwilling to click on links that “dare me” to click on them, can you please tell me what this is all about? I don’t want to learn from experience in this case.
Good for you Sue. I respect that. Although it is apparently harmless, clicking the app will give it access to whatever info/data/photo’s etc you have posted to Facebook.
What happens then is the really scary part. The app takes that information and uses it to dynamically create a movie trailer of the creepy guy viewing your profile on Facebook, then getting in his creepy truck and driving to your address with a print out of your profile stuck to his creepy dashboard.
You can see the expressions on the faces of a bunch of people who took the lollipop here ow.ly/dipjF I think they learned their lesson. Enjoy!
Gaaah… yes I am very glad I didn’t do that! I did check over all my apps on FB though. Thanks for a timely reminder.
Hey maybe you should provide a “check your privacy settings” reminder as an automated email that people can sign up for. They could choose what frequency (depending on their level of paranoia/use) and even make a list of the sites/apps they THINK they have authorized. Hmmm… there’s a half-baked idea there…
it is fake
Its not a bad website
Uhm so i went on the app take this lollipop but i tried to press my camera it worked i got scared and left..as quickly as possible
How does it know where I live
im scared i don’t want to press now in blue
Wait a minute. How do we know you’re not trying to use reverse psychology to make us take the lollipop? Also I played it but it wasnt scary because I saw it on youtube first
Scary!!!!!
i dont read through things like this but read through thi and that kinda sounds scary.
I did it and i wish they did it more scary and creepy. But I never got scared. SO I would take the lollipop
I Like It But Its Really Scary.I Told My Friends About It To Scare Them.Try Now!!!!!!!!!!