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This is clearly an artificial, manufactured viral marketing campaign. Hash tag added for extra cringe. Ridiculous.
by Traubenfuchs 7y ago
This is clearly an artificial, manufactured viral marketing campaign. Hash tag added for extra cringe. Ridiculous.
- tenant 7y agoI agree, a nice touch would be if the cleaner agreed to accept a Coca Cola at the end because no one can resist that.
- dTal 7y agoWell, I mean the domain is "finland.fi"... not exactly subtle.
- Traubenfuchs 7y agoAnd yet this useless, feel good clickbait nonsense with zero content is featured on the frontpage...
- Teever 7y agoTotally. This was my first thought when I skimmed the article. Now I wonder who is paying for it, the Finnish gov't or the company mentioned in the article? I speculate that it may be part of a PR campaign from the government to draw skilled people from the US. It seems to coincide with recent comments about the American Dream by the Finnish PM.
- Traubenfuchs 7y agoThe website is sponsored by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland...
- Teever 7y agolol, well that's what I get for skimming... At lease my interpretation of the article was correct, I guess.
- buzer 7y agoVery unlikely. It was originally posted in Twitter, then apparently first reported in some Italian newspaper (as the guy was Italian). Afterwards it got reported in couple of Finnish newpapers & sites. I think this was the first time I saw Smartly being mentioned as the company where it happened (usually it was just "digital marketing company").
- keanzu 7y agoAre marketing campaigns what HN is about? I'm not so sure. Flagged it.
- vardump 7y agoHave you ever stayed in Finland for an extended period? I have. Based on my actual experience, this was probably real and accurate. But I can't blame you for your cynicism.
- xornox 7y agoMy father did not ever lock car or house in Finland. It is very real, but trust has been going down year by year.
- Hamuko 7y agoI don't believe that unless he lives in the countryside.
- xornox 7y agoHe lived in a quite small town (< 10 000) people. Just few generations ago nobody locked houses in small Finnish towns. They just set a broom against the out door to tell everybody that the house is empty and door is open.