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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 14, 2010 21:55:06 GMT 2
Have a quick browse around the net, at humour sites like Cracked, discussion forums (yes, even this one) and you'll notice something in common.. everything you can do, you can link to it through Facebook.
Buying gig tickets? Link through Facebook. Like a movie trailer? Ditto. Want to show people a music video? Facebook can do that. It's quickly absorbing into everything.
I read a feature on Facebook a few months ago discussing this, and they said the idea could possibly be that instead of linking to Facebook, the idea would soon to be you have to be ON Facebook to do it. Buying tickets for gigs? Yeah, join up to Facebook to do that. You get the idea.
It sounds far fetched, but Facebook is now THE most popular site on the internet, even more so than Google. That's pretty scary, really. But still true.
I do go on Facebook (and have just become friends with Wolfman through it), but did anyone else see the site become SO big so soon? And do you ever see it dying out like Myspace, or is Facebook now The Future of the net?
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Post by Benjamin Haines on Nov 15, 2010 6:12:52 GMT 2
MySpace died because people's names were displayed as whatever alias they wanted, so it was basically a message board like this one. Facebook took off because it was made for people to go by their real names, so it was universally accessible and more grounded in the real world.
I don't see it going anywhere. It's one of those sites that will be around for the long run, like Google, eBay, Amazon, YouTube, etc.
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 17, 2010 2:14:11 GMT 2
Yup. Facebook is being used by businesses to scout potential employees and everything. It's the current and future model of human interaction. I'll never touch the fucking thing unless it becomes like you suggest where you literally can;t do anything without it. The episode of South Park is probably the best explanation as to why I refuse to put my name on that site. www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e04-you-have-0-friends |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 17, 2010 10:59:06 GMT 2
Sigh, as usual I've just been told I can't watch it in my country. Having Cartman in a police uniform telling me that made it sting a little less, though.
I actually really enjoy going on Facebook, something I never thought I actually would. I still write the same sort of comments I normally do, but to people I actually know (I caused some offense when I said watching some TV show was as much fun as "finding blood on your toilet paper.") I just think its a good way to keep in touch with people you used to know. Old work colleagues, old school friends.. you know, the people you would actually avoid talking to in real life.
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 18, 2010 2:04:11 GMT 2
Exactly. If I want to talk to somebody I know, I'll do it in real life. You and my other online buddies are people I'd never see otherwise so the internet is a great place to meet and interact with like-minded individuals as well as complete morons who need a good virtual face-kicking. But I don't want my wife and mom and some dope I knew in first grade or high school who was an asshole up in that business. I don't need to be cyber-stalked by people who are in my life or wish they were but aren't. I'm here to trade interests and opinions with people who don't know me from a hole in the wall and aren't compelled to pretend to give a shit if they don't or hold their tongue if they disagree. I don't need people to look at pictures of my kid or whatever I just bought and know my business on a minute-to-minute basis and see me post shitty little political cartoons in lieu of actual discussion and play doofy little online games where I have to solicit my friends to progress when I could just play my console like a normal person who wants to play video games. The whole Facebook scene just annoys the hell out of me. Try these links. www.xepisodes.com/southpark/episodes/1404/Youve-Got-0-Friends.htmlOr here. This one has Spanish subtitles and shitty quality. Surely it's not geographry-restricted. tu.tv/videos/you-have-0-friends-south-park-14x04-su |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 18, 2010 20:59:08 GMT 2
Is it considered irony that I've just "liked" that site through Facebook?
Holy SHIT, Trash. What a site. EVERY episode of South Park? Damn. Not that I condone such a thing of course (I'll get round to buying the DVDs one day, I have the first season and.. that's it).
"He likes videogames and wishes everyone in the world would stop talking about ninja's." Man, South Park is funny shit.
Here's a SP question - what happened with Kenny? He died, for good, then they brought him back? How'd that all happen?
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 18, 2010 21:19:33 GMT 2
It was some years ago ago. Basically, the creators got sick of the "They killed Kenny!" bit so they had him die of some disease and made it all corny and emotional (which just made it funny since it was about the 100th time he'd died) and not come back for a season or two. Cartman made chocolate milk out of his ashes. I can't remember how they brought him back or if they even made a big deal about it. In the last story arc that just aired they revealed that Kenny is actually a superbeing who is reborn every night after death with the memories of his demise gone from the world. By morning, he has matured to the same age he was when he died.
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Post by Benjamin Haines on Nov 20, 2010 21:37:15 GMT 2
He was brought back officially at the end of the Christmas episode where Iraqi militants killed Jesus. He just shows up and they're like "Oh, hey Kenny."
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