get behind me, facebook movie
I saw the facebook movie, “The Social Network” on Monday. if you haven’t seen it, go see it- it’s fucking intense (by my standards, of course). That Zuckerberg kid had a good point: “People like going on the internet,” and trust me, after facebook exploded, people LOVE the internet. Spending more than half of your time in front of the computer screen is not such a foreign concept anymore- and the so-called “Geeks”? they are Billionaires. We do everything online: shop, date, read, watch movies, gamble, watch TV, conduct business, sell eggs from your ovaries, work, you name it, DONE. Social Media is a standard now. If you’re not friends on facebook, he/she not your real friend. If you don’t tweet, someone is tweeting about the fact that you don’t have a twitter account… like right now. (Okay, so that might be an overstatement, but not by far)
On Tuesday, I was talking with my friend after work, and she made a really interesting point. She was scrolling on facebook on her crackberry, and said: “a boring day is even more bleak when you can’t even find funny shit on facebook.” I totally sympathized. I mean random videos, articles about the Jersey Shore, youtube and hulu links invading your news feed have taken procrastination to the next level. It’s like a drug- when the supply is low, you need a fix.
On Wednesday it hit me- my “AHA!” moment. “What if you didn’t have to rely on your friends to post funny stuff online?”
Okay, so I’m not Mark Zuckerberg, thus I can’t code as I blog, but here me out. ENTERTAINMENT in a general term covers a lot of ground online. It could be a youtube video of the high kid on vicodin after the dentist, or it could be a hulu clip from last week’s SNL. Or it doesn’t even have to be a video-Perez Hilton does bad photoshop and writes stupid shit on celebs doing WHATEVER celebs do, and he gets more hits than a frat boy at hempfest. Articles and sites like “post secret” and “texts from last night” are internet GOLD MINES. My friend last year used a hash tag on twitter, and she practically caused a revolution at Emerson. that’s right guys, #LBKinsonisaGenius.
Why does all of THIS capture our attention? Because it’s ENTERTAINMENT. Now an important quote from the facebook movie before I make my important point.
“People like going on the internet and check out their friends. So why not build a website that offers that friends, pictures, profiles, and talking about putting the entire social experience of college and putting it online.”
Thank you, Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg. Now for my 2 Cents, and the inspiration for this entry.
“People like getting entertained and checking shit out online 24/7. So why not create a non-profit organization that combine all outlets, categories, and types of art, vids, pics clips, I’m talking about forming a single domain that captures all forms on entertainment online.”
You might be thinking to yourself, “Thank you for the grand speech, but it’s already been done a thousand times over.” Has it though? Really?
Sure, if you want to see something funny, you’ll waste a couple hours on www.funnyordie.com/. If you want to stare at weird cats, than look up icanhascheezburger.com/. There’s an outlet for everything- sure. Usually, individual sites offer a wide range of content under a single domain, but two platforms doesn’t really cross paths. (how youtube and hulu are separate even though they both stream video). But I’m talking about combining all these outlets. I’m talking about finding embarrassing videos from your cousins wedding, and find out what Justin Bieber tweeted about his hair in the same domain just by navigating through simple categories all while on one single site. How does one do that without getting in trouble? I’m probably talking through my ass right now, but NON-PROFIT. Non-profit people get away without paying taxes for crying out loud. This is not a long shot. By creating this domain .org, it’ll officially be an organization promoting all things entertainment. For example, a grassroots video blogger doing his own version of jackass 3D can promote his stuff on this site. So to paint a bigger picture, this site will be an outlet to support the little guys and everyone pro-arts trying to do entertainment as a career and need a start. It’ll be raising the voices for people everywhere shouting “Yes we can” Doesn’t that have a good ring to it? Unofficially, it’ll be the largest, public outlet to all things entertainment. The next time you hit a lull on your entertainment fix because your friends were..i dunno too busy having a life or something…you can visit FYE.org to get your fix.
FYE (for your entertainment) is taken you say? Not for long, isn’t that company going like bankrupted or something? Besides, it fits perfectly and it’s “.org” douches, not “.com” .DUH(pun intended)
Just imagine. FYE.org will combine entertaining content from Facebook statuses, tweets, youtube,vemeo, hulu, funnyordie, icanhascheezeburger, postsecret,texsfromlastnight, messagefrommom, thisiswhyyourfat, hotchickswithdouchebags, collegehumor, i-am-bored, FML.com, urbandictionary, theonion, BASICALLY everything and anything, and the best part? It’ll just keep on growing by the added content factor.
that’s right, #MAGICAL.
okay Sean Parker, I’m ready for Appletinis.
