Website Victimized By Massive PR Opportunity

Terrible news on the Internets!

A social networking site for ‘’beautiful people’’ has been hit by a ‘’Shrek’’ virus which allowed tens of thousands of ‘’ugly’’ applicants to sign up. Members of BeautifulPeople.com must traditionally pass a strict ‘’rating’’ stage where existing users vote on whether someone is attractive enough to be accepted into the online community. But this screening process was brought down last month, allowing anyone to join, regardless of their looks. Owners today apologised to more than 30,000 ‘’unfortunate’’ people who were ‘’wrongly admitted’’ to the site and subsequently banished.

How unlucky for the company! Perhaps they can take solace in the fact that this “story” has resulted in tons of publicity for the company with no security implications for current and future members. What’s the saying about God never closing a door without opening a window? Or maybe the one about how you make your own luck would be more appropriate.