Hey y'all! Time to indulge in my AIW obsession once again.
The Loyal Subjects of the Red Queen, the Loyal Subjects of the White Queen, and the Disloyal Subjects of the Mad Hatter are all building armies on Facebook. The fan page with the biggest army at 7PM EST on Thursday, July 23 will get to see an exclusive new trailer from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland before anyone else. Here is the link where you can pick your page and see some pretty character portraits.
Of course I cheated and became fans of all three, which led me to the main Alice in Wonderland Facebook page where I stole these lovely new promotional posters:
It's a ridiculously simple and smart way to engage crazy kids like me and get free promotion (I twittered the link and passed it on to some other fans I know on Facebook). Thanks again to my favorite enabler, MM. :)
So there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that in Palmetto and Cutler Bay (where the old Sapient office was located) some psycho was mutilating & killing cats, then placing the gruesome remains like trophies back where he found them. There were 33 reported cases, and now the good news is that this kid was arrested and is being charged with 19 of them.
When I first heard about the story last month, I theorized it would be some disturbed, suburban teenager in the area that was bored, sick and somehow starved for attention. I wonder if C.S.I. Miami or Law & Order will make an episode about it (the disclaimer always says the stories aren't inspired by true events, but I don't believe it).
I find it particularly interesting the role that social media is playing in this case. Before, when someone was arrested, you just saw their picture on the news or in the paper and other than that you were pretty disassociated with them. Some of the news stories I saw online pulled pictures from his MySpace account and they post links to his Facebook page as well as a group in support of catching and some prick even started a group just plain in support of the alleged cat killer.
You think he's a sick bastard? You can tell him that directly through Facebook or MySpace. Not to mention the countless people emailing, Twittering, re-posting and otherwise sharing links and news clips.
I'm glad he's 18 so he can be tried as an adult. Even if the judge isn't the biggest PETA supporter and lets the kid off lightly, he's still screwed because this stuff is in every nook and cranny of the internet. I personally don't think he should go to jail. He should be placed in the custody of the Miami Metro Zoo and share an enclosure with the Lions after the zookeepers "forget" to feed them for a couple days. I like my justice served with a side of irony, thanks!
(Kind of like how I wish this kid in Australia had actually fallen into the Croc enclosure:)
I find it ironic that the basic idea of twitter is facebook statuses with a character limit, and now facebook is attempting to turn itself into twitter. I hate it. It's like social network incest. Pretty soon its just going to be one big myfacetwitbookspacer and it will be directly wired to your brain like the matrix so your statuses will be updated as soon as you think them.
Facebook has progressively been sucking more and more. I just have too many friends and photo tags to get rid of it.
I'm absolutely swamped with work because it's the end of the quarter, but I wanted to do a quick post while I'm taking a break. It still hasn't completely set in that I am never going to have classes again because I am finishing with an internship next quarter.
Anyways, I ironically stumbled across this on facebook. It's a brilliant idea and the accents make even more enjoyable. It's got over 2 million hits on youtube alone, so you've probably already seen it...
It's so true! How weird would facebook rituals be in real life?
One of my pet peeves is when people from my high school that I was never even friends with (and sometimes people I've never even met) request me as a friend. I mean we were never actually friends in real life, I am probably never going to see you again, and I really don't care what you are doing. Really.
Finally getting my feet wet in the advertising world. I would prefer to be barefoot, but I'll settle for flip-flops. I create, work out, work hard & play hard. Basically, life is good.
