Not a bad episode this week, I fully agree with Stan’s disdain for “Social Networking” sites, stupid, useless waste of time…
The Tron references were nice as well, it would have been nice to sneak an image of “Moses” in there to complete the Tron references
I was expecting a stinger at the end of the episode where Cartman starts promoting Kip as the new “hot freind” just to torment Kyle…
Are there really people out there that have their “life” revolve around Facebook and other Social Networking sites? that seems pathetic to me…
I’ve been thinking of starting an ANTIsocial networking site myself, but the problem is, if I did create such a site, and it got to be successful, it would be a failure as an ANTIsocial network site, wouldn’t it?
IRL, Kip gets depressed again, inside Facebookworld, UserStan goes to a virtual party hosted by MCPStan, a powerful rogue profile, confronts his rogue profile, defeats him at Yahtzee, exits Facebookworld, then deletes his profile, cut to Kip’s bedroom, he’s depressed, his computer beeps, indicating new friends, he looks at his FB profile, and is surprised to see he now has 845,323 friends (all of Stan’s Facebook friends)
I know a fair number of people who spend as much time and effort on Facebook and social message boards as they do work or anything else in their lives. The really overboard ones are often the kids who never could find a place or power for themselves. Now as adults they have found a way to sit back and say “I really am important”.
Anti-networking ------- I was part of a thread/meeting on another board titled Lurkers Forum. In three years it got a total of 4 posts on a board where most threads/meetings averaged 80 or more posts a week. We considered it a stunning success.
Its like Beavis and Butthead. Its funny because there is some truth to it (in Beavis and Butthead its that there are people that clueless) . And, when you stop to think about it, its really sad because there is some truth to it.
I loved how they used the Tron thing and him litterally getting “sucked into facebook” and him complaining about literally getting “sucked into facebook” once he was in it.
And, for a minute, I thought they were going to have Kip commit suicide.
I actually joined the group of kids that would “whore”* themselves out to get as many friends as possible on MySpace. It actually wasn’t that horrible. Sure, most (over 4000) of them I wouldn’t talk to, but I met a few people that were really cool. And most of the people there, once they’d gotten to a certain number, started realizing how pointless it was.
Me? I did it on a lark in the first place, as I had added someone who “pimped” a lot of people, but was actually fun to talk to. I put them on a separate MySpace so I wouldn’t have to keep getting the messages on my main one. Since I only put a cartoon character as my avatar, I actually thought it’d be cool to see how many people would actually add me. Like I said, I got just above 4000.
*“whore” just means to become friends with someone only if they promise to “pimp” your profile to a bunch of other people. IOW, I’ll add you if you’ll try to get a bunch of people to add me. It was pretty interesting to see how such a simple model scaled up exponentially.
I like Facebook, and I am quite an addict (it combines voyeurism and exhibitionism), but I am a male in his mid-30s, so a lot of the awkward social ramifications of social networking flew right past me. I’ve been married since before everyone had an EMAIL address! Plus, I have never understood the farm or mafia thing.
The only suspect thing I do re: Facebook is friend the hot popular girls from high school that probably do not remember me from Adam to see if the looks held up.
I wondered what it was like to be single in the age of Facebook. When does one have to signify he is “in a relationship?” We used to worry the girl would make us say we loved her. This episode answered a lot of my questions in SP fashion.
Best parts:
Roulette Jacking Off
Mad Money Cartman
Yahtzee Battles
I thought this would have been a good “Randy Over the Top” episode, but he was pretty tame.
A guy came into my store last week, asking me to call him a cab. He had just arrived here (Bay Area, CA), from somewhere far away, and somehow was stranded. He was asking me about hotels close by, and I said, “Ask the cabbie, I don’t live in Daly City, I live in SF.” His reply was “I really need to get to Facebook!”
Loved this episode, especially when it got into the bit with Tron and Chat Roulette. Although whenever they played yahtzee all I could think of were the episodes of True Blood that had vampire yahtzee.
The nice thing about facebook is that it’s flexible. You can change the privacy of photos and posts so that only certain people can see them. And you can use it just as an address book, to find new friends, to chat with people of similar interests, as an easy photo gallery, to job network, or to play games. If you love making friends with random people you can friend a ton of interesting people. Or if you like to keep to your self you can only accept befriending of your five closest peeps. If you like games you can get really into that, but if you hate them you can block your profile from getting ‘give me stuff on farmville’ posts. So you have pretty good control over what kind of facebook experience you desire, although there are a few aspects that need tweaking. To each their own!
I found it really funny because I know a lot of people who respond to facebook in different ways, from the super into Farmville people to the ‘not wanting to get sucked in’ people.
I had a friend who created a profile by accident and then was shocked when people noticed he was there and started friending him and posting pics of him, and he got email notifications.
