On Facebook, Girl Scouts sell 400 boxes of cookies—in an hour

The girls in the green smocks in Silicon Valley are revolutionizing the way we buy Thin Mints and Tagalongs.

Advertising Age reports that Palo Alto, Calif. (in the Silicon Valley) sees few neighborhood Girl Scouts traveling in packs, selling their Tagalongs door-to-door. Instead, troops in the area set up shop in the heart of the social media capitol of the world—Facebook.

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