Take This Lollipop is a 2011 interactive horror short film and Facebook app written and directed by Jason Zada.

[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.

[2][5] The concept developed from director Jason Zada's attraction to horror films from his youth, his wish to do something serious within that genre, his experience as a digital editor, and his understanding that people place their personal information on the internet for anyone to find.

[7] Being a fan of "exploring human interaction with media", Zada used similar techniques for Take This Lollipop, but tapped into what he sees as the "larger collective fear we have now"[2] toward personal information being on the internet.

[2] The project had no real marketing at all, beyond its YouTube trailer and then an initial release on October 17, 2011, to a few personal friends, who then wrote about it on Twitter.

"[13] The interactive film has received both national and international attention, with coverage on 20minutes,[14] Sky Italia,[15] Les Numeriques,[16] TendanceOuest,[17] Stern Magazine,[18] Site Oueb.

[19] and International Business Times,[20] and continued discussions over how to protect children when they are using the internet, with coverage by such as the New Zealand Herald,[21] CNN,[22] and Persoenlich.

[6] Forbes wrote that the film was "designed to prey on any Facebook privacy fears you may have, especially if you have a dirty, sweaty ex-boyfriend who resembles the guy in the video (Bill Oberst)".

"[26] CNN reported that the film took the worst fears about posting personal information on the internet, and turned them into "2 minutes of horror.

"[5] In noting the film's introductory page, displaying an image of a lollipop with a razor blade in it, the network reminded viewers of the parental advice to children that they should not take candy from strangers.

Though explaining that the film's application uses a viewer's Facebook data only once, and then deletes it, CNN offered that "the creepy results just might make you think twice about who else gets access to your online information.

[28] In discussing how parents must educate their children about the dangers inherent in a releasing of personal information about themselves to the internet, CNN wrote "Behind the litany of frightening facts and figures (not to mention fears like those preyed upon in viral-video Take This Lollipop, an interactive horror film that incorporates text and images from your Facebook profile) lurks a disturbing truth.