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<\/a><\/p>\nI think the image’s explanation says it all.<\/p>\n
Actually a great usage, one of my favorites, but as gabeuscorpus on Flickr<\/a> notes, the code brings you to a parsley page.<\/p>\n As you can see, this is a long post, but there are so many more. Just Google “QR Code Fail”<\/a> or go to WTF QR Codes.com<\/a>. Please add links to any other QR Code misuses, stupidity, or failures in the comments.<\/p>\n By the way, a fun QR code is this crossword puzzle that doubles as a QR code<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past week we were discussing new trends in marketing on the #AECSM (Architect\/Engineer\/Construction Social Media) tweet chat held every Tuesday at 3pm Central. One trend I mentioned was nearly every CEO & VP wants an app and QR code without thinking about the usage and practicality of them. Many of us then started talking[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,231],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-failure","tag-qr-code"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2.brandconstructors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Is the code too small to scan, take a step closer.<\/p>\n<\/a>Learn more about protecting yourself by pulling out your expensive smartphone in public to scan this QR code. This is actually a great idea to rob people.<\/p>\n<\/a>One of the all time best locations for QR codes – on billboards for passing cars to scan. Hopefully this image was taken by a passenger, not the driver.<\/p>\n<\/a>By the time I even get the app open, the QR code will be off the screen unless you use a DVR to pause it.<\/p>\n<\/a>Even if you leave the QR code up for 10 minutes, it doesn’t matter when you block it.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n