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“I’m deleting my facebook.” You f___king idiot. @Facebook is the new #WordOfMouth
After managing a clever escape from family (hugs and excuses) this Christmas, I stopped by and had a snack and a drink at a friend’s house and, among other general topics, slander, gossip, and juicy love-life tidbits, I got on my soap-box about social media, Apples versus Androids, and Facebook.
I pointed out that it is my initial knee-jerk reaction to vehemently discredit the sanity of anyone claiming the ever-so-trendy “I am getting rid of Facebook” or “I deleted my Facebook”… these people are effing morons.
Facebook isn’t just a toy. Facebook isn’t just a clever social network. Facebook isn’t just a living breathing yearbook/rolodex. Facebook isn’t just for showboating yuppies. Facebook isn’t just a boredom time-sink. Facebook changed the world …better yet, it made it better for we the consumers.
Facebook is the new ‘word of mouth’, and it is the perfect, genius marketing tool we need to protect us as consumers and to hold the businesses of the world accountable.
Think about it. Nearly every website, blog, news story, image, service, song, video, item, sale, quote, hell even when you purchase something on Amazon or eBay or iTunes has a ‘Like’ button; and, if it doesn’t you can share it anyway through a clever ‘Like’ Bookmarklet you can add to your browser bar.
We like to share things! It’s a naturally uplifting act; online or otherwise…
But what’s the point of sharing something if you don’t have recipients? And where would you find an audience except through a social network like Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and a handful of other thriving social communities? And when we’re not surfing the internet for things to share, we’re ‘checking in’ to places using our phones and handheld devices. We’re scanning items at brick and mortar vendors, restaurants, coffee shops, bars… you name it, people ‘like’ it somehow and typically they put it on the internet for their audience to see.
No matter the reasoning, we are essentially feeding an ecosystem of business and product reviews through the advent of a simple, elegant, and thoroughly accurate system of ‘liking’ it. If you don’t ‘like’ it, you don’t share it. See? Simple!
If it isn’t clear, the effects are even more astounding. Companies, movies, television shows, products, books… they’re all subject to the scrutiny of us, the consumer, and ultimately it is OUR feedback that ensures or denies the success of the vendor. If a product looks fancy and sexy but performs like complete shit, it’ll be doomed to the dismal cutting room floor or poor sales. If an underdog game or artist perform well enough to capture the attention of consumers ready and willing to ‘like’ them and share them, they will have full benefit of the word of mouth system but on a larger, digital, global scale.
If a company is evil and is in support of spreading a hateful message, we the people of the world can make that company suffer for it’s malfeasance.
We have so many options when it comes to where we share, how we share, and to whom we share with. But none compare to the might and popularity of Facebook.
Facebook, as a company, and through the leadership of a mad-scientist/genius like Mark Zuckerberg, has positioned itself perfectly to facilitate such a tremendous undertaking. They’ve provided us with the technology and the forum to voice our reviews, commentary, and trends. They’ve given us the venue to reconnect with people to whom we otherwise would have bid adieu. Our families connect to one another to share family events like births, weddings, graduations, a good poop, and through that they’ve masterly integrated a channel for us to broadcast where we are, what we do, what we eat, what we buy, what we watch, a cool song we came across, a funny video we’ve created with viral potential.
Facebook has successfully pioneered and programmed ‘word of mouth’ technology using living, breathing humans as the power source. They’ve leveraged the internet to socially channel the Human Condition in such a way that technology works for us once again instead of the other way around.
Now… why would you opt out?!
I can hear the argument now about privacy and personal information. Here’s my counter-argument… if you don’t want people to get their hands on your personal information (because you’re so damn sure you’re that important), then don’t put it up for grabs.
Facebook does NOT require any personal information. There are plenty of people who don’t share; we don’t judge them for their paranoia (much). You still get to ‘like’ things and contribute to this beautiful revolution while remaining anonymous. Personally, I feel rather safe putting my address and phone number on Facebook. If you don’t understand the privacy settings, LEARN TO READ.
Facebook is a multi-billion dollar corporation with international visibility; trust me when I say this as plainly as I can… you’re far more likely to catch HIV from your iPhone. What’s in a name you ask? My legal name is NOT Anderson Matlock… you don’t have to put your real name on Facebook. You could use a pseudonym if you wished, or your porn name for all I care.
You’re a f___king idiot if you don’t use Facebook. I say this with love.
I wish I could find the link to the interview… but there was an interview with Mark Z and a VP of something-facebooky talking about how they don’t want to be like Google or Apple or Microsoft. They don’t desire to recreate the wheel and dominate cell phone markets or search engines or music sales. They want to piggy back on those services, create partnerships, work WITH these giant companies to get Facebook integrated with their products and services. What this accomplishes is not only a rendering of an even greater value of said products and services, but it makes the effort of we the Human Condition Engine (IM COINING THIS PHRASE! ON THE RECORD) even more seamless than it already was. Obviously it’s clever enough for Google to try and pry marketshare from them with Google+.
It just works. This is our future. To opt out would be akin to opting out of telephones in the 1800s. You think you’re a rebel? You think you’re being trendy? “I’m thinking of deleting my Facebook account.” You’re a poser, seek help.
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I do quite enjoy this. I cannot lie. I’m also kind of in love with Allen McLeod right now…
Drunk History Christmas with Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes from Ryan Gosling
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#Bones #Deschanel
Emily and Zooey Deschanel
I cannot begin to tell you how pleased I am to learn they were sisters! Are you effing kidding me?! I just found out. I never paid attention to Bones’ real life name. I just saw an episode where Zooey played Dr. Temperance Brennan’s 2nd cousin and I remarked how uncanny their resemblance was. I thought it was just cute… how could I have prepared myself for this epiphany!?!!
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Every straight down in Straightville liked Christmas a lot,
But the Gays, who lived just north of Straightville did not.
The Gays hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season,
Now please don’t as why, no one quite knows the reason.
It could be that the straights couldn’t match their decor just right,
It could be, perhaps, it was that their fabulous pants were too tight.
But Ithink the most likely reason of all,
May have been that a Texan released a campaign video calling them unequal.
But whatever the reason, the decor or the pants,
The gays stood there on Christmas, hating this political ant.
Staring down from their fabulous gay palace with a sour gay frown,
At all the close minded pigs who listened in town.
For they some of the straights down in Straightville beneath,
Would listen to the bullshit the Texan bequeathed.
“And they’re nodding their heads!” the gays snarled with a sneer,
“Tomorrow is Christmas and he is spreading hate and fear!”
The gays growled with their gay fingers angrily drumming,
“If they want to hate, let’s stop their Christmas from coming!”
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That’s it I have to go to family dinner now.
Also this is a joke if you didn’t get that.
Heart.
(Source: ivs504)
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Cow Politics
- Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
- Pure Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.
- Bureaucratic Socialism: Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
- Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
- Pure Communism: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
- Real World Communism: You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most “ability” and who has the most “need”. Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
- Russian Communism: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
- Perestroika: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the “free” market.
- Cambodian Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
- Militarianism: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
- Totalitarianism: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
- Pure Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
- Representative Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
- British Democracy: You have two cows. You feed them sheeps’ brains and they go mad. The government doesn’t do anything.
- Bureaucracy: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
- Pure Anarchy: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
- Pure Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
- Capitalism: You don’t have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don’t have any cows to put up as collateral.
- Enviromentalism: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
- Political Correctness: You are associated with (the concept of “ownership” is a symbol of the phallo-centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently – aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
- Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
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