I'm sitting in my kitchen eating left over pizza, watching "The Social Network" and letting it motivate me. Other tabs open right now are Twitter, Facebook, Dailybooth, Google.
The last line state was "The site got 22 hundred hits with in two hours." my ability to quote this movie intrigues me since I've maybe watched it twice. The first time being in theaters opening night at midnight.
I just posted to my Facebook.
- "I decided to watch "The Social Network" because it motivates me. Interestingly enough after watching the first scene. (The one in the bar with the two conversations going on at the same time.) Jim 'Aquaman' Schnadelbach said hmm look Josh it's you."
Blogging simultaneously... Hmm. One of the quotes I find the most interesting is during the creating of FaceMash, While sitting in his dorm room, and choosing who to send a link to FaceMash. One of his friends says who do we send it to? Mark says it's not who we send it to. The question is who will they send it to?
This question is actually superseded by another question. Will they send it to anyone? This question and fueling that sharing is what I've been trying to do in many ways for the past few years. Later in the movie once the site is ready Mark says to Edwardo get your laptop... because you have emails to everyone in the Phoenix club. Edwardo immediately says back to him. "I just don't know if this is going to be spam."
That fear or feeling of spamming ones friends along with the miss understanding of Social Media is something that I find I battle against. I'm not sure where that leaves us. In the end Mark was putting up Facebook and I do a vlog and webseries. Some people would say content while others... (depending on the video) have said they don't understand why it doesn't have more views cause it was good, funny, enjoyable, shareable, and yet not everyone gets a blog post, a vlog, a video, a comic, a picture, a tweet to take off and "go viral" or heck just get shared.
What triggers the I need to share this now response?
I think it has to do with some people being able to understand and utilize the concept of The "global village " better than others. For example, Facebook was designed to spread almost entirely on its own. Whereas your or my vlog, though we aspire for them to "go viral ", they are not really designed to do so, at least not on their own.
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