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Facebook Relationship Etiquette: Timmy And Alice Explain It All (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
In this 50s Style news reel we meet Alice, an average teen (white, blond) who loves her beau Timmy until she discovers he downgraded them from "In a relationship" to "Single" on Facebook. She is not impressed and decides to seek revenge when she finds that he "friended" a buxom brunette in the middle of the night.
As their relationship falls apart online we learn the dos and do not dos of dating in the social networking world (aka the electronic friendship generator.)
Most of the rules in the video are sort of obvious (don't post pics of your boyfriend wearing your underwear for all to see), but the well-handled anachronisms make it ...
Fifties Facebook Faux Pas
BatesLine —
This instructional film from the 1950s explains the mistakes young people make in dealing with relationships via Facebook. Dig the steampunk computer and camera: (Via Christian Clark on -- what else? -- Facebook.)
Facebook Manners; More Than A Centruy Old
The Moderate Voice —
Click here to view the embedded video.
The digitizers at ProQuest have discovered not all content is serious academic research. Some is just plain fun:
Bryan Benilous, a historical newspaper specialist at the digital-archive company Proquest, said he and his colleagues came across a Boston Daily Globe article from August 24, 1902, titled, “Face Book The New Fad,” describing a party game where revelers sketch out cartoony caricatures for fun.
“I think it is interesting to note the similarities with this first iteration of Face Book as a shared social experience,” said Mr. Benilous. “It’s almost like ...
A Facebook Story
Blue Gal —
I heard this story last weekend and wanted to share, even though as a blog post it's from February. BernThis may not be your kind of blog, but I have to say as a panel speaker she's a hoot. But her story really hit a nerve for me, when she recalled: ...a horrible experience I had in junior high, something which led me down a horrible path and from where I developed my sense of humor as it was the only "weapon" I had. Just the other day, one of the girls who was especially cruel to me, wrote me on Facebook, asking to "be my friend." This from a person who ...
