{"id":647222,"date":"2013-03-18T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=221193"},"modified":"2013-03-18T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:55:59","slug":"nearly-2500-swedes-form-giant-human-facebook-like-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647222","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 2,500 Swedes Form Giant Human Facebook Like on Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered what nearly 2,500 people standing on a frozen lake in the shape of a Facebook “like” looks like? Of course you have. <\/p>\n

Well, wonder no more. In an attempt to set a world record, 2.493 residents of Lule\u00e5, Sweden gathered atop a frozen lake in the shape of a giant Facebook thumbs up. <\/p>\n

The Lule\u00e5 residents were actually attempting to set the Guinness World Record for “biggest human hand on ice” – the Guinness record itself makes no mention of that hand needing to mimic a Facebook like.<\/p>\n

That was simply the idea of the town, whose residents have a strong tie with Facebook. The company recently opened a huge data center in Lule\u00e5<\/a>, the largest of its kind to be built in Europe. <\/p>\n

According to The Local<\/a>, the record attempt took place on March 16th, the 75th day of year, to symbolize the town of Lule\u00e5 topping 75,000 residents. <\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we gave a thumbs up for Lule\u00e5. I’m proud of how we together, through hard teamwork, year after year manage to grow and evolve,\u201d said the town’s mayor, Karl Petersen.<\/p>\n

Lule\u00e5’s Facebook shoutout has received some attention – from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg:<\/p>\n

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Ever wondered what nearly 2,500 people standing on a frozen lake in the shape of a Facebook “like” looks like? Of course you have. Well, wonder no more. In an attempt to set a world record, 2.493 residents of Lule\u00e5, Sweden gathered atop a frozen lake in the shape of a giant Facebook thumbs up. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}