| Take this Lollipop | |
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| Directed by | Jason Zada |
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| Produced by | Jason Zada Brendan Kling |
| Starring | Bill Oberst Jr. |
| Cinematography | Mihai Mălaimare Jr. |
| Edited by | Jason Zada |
| Music by | Bobby Jameson |
Production companies | Little Monster Tool of North America |
| Distributed by | Tool of North America |
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Running time | 2 minutes, 38 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Take This Lollipop is a 2011 interactive horror short film and Facebook app written and directed by Jason Zada. Developer Jason Nickel used Facebook Connect to bring viewers themselves into the film, through use of pictures and messages from their own Facebook profiles. Starring actor Bill Oberst Jr.[1] as 'The Facebook Stalker', the film acts to personalize and underscore the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about oneself on the internet.[2][3][4] The information gathered from a viewer's Facebook profile by the film's app is used once and then deleted.[3] The title is derived from the 1963 song "Please Little Girl Take This Lollipop", written and performed by singer-songwriter Bobby Jameson, which is used in the film.
According to Zada, Take This Lollipop was taken offline "a few months" prior to August 2018. The film's website now hosts a new version of Take This Lollipop, now a horror game about a meeting. However, as of 2022, the website now hosts both experiences, albeit for $2.00 to access.
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- ^ staff (October 31, 2011). "Take This Lollipop Facebook App – Creepy Way to Visualize Your Privacy". Social Media Today. Archived from the original on August 9, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2012.