A new application, which allows the users sacrifice a friend in exchange for a Burger King Whopper, has been reined by Facebook Inc.

Reports which came on Thursday claim that in the time the fast-food promotion was in operation, about 234,000 friends were sacrificed.

The major problem was that the deleted friends were identified by the app, along with their friends, that they were sacrificed for a Whopper.

No notification to the friends is sent by Facebook, when they are removed normally.

"While the site encourages creativity from developers and companies using Facebook Platform ... we also must ensure that applications follow users' expectations of privacy. After extensive discussions with the developer, we have not disabled the application but have placed some restrictions on the application to assure that users' expectations of privacy are maintained," said Face book via a statement.