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Social Networking Phenomenon Lets You Know Exactly How Miserable Your Friends Are About Their Reviews
Posted by Seth at 3:31 AM on March 11, 2008
With its appealing template, risk-free poking opportunities, and wealth of human-bartering applications, its hardly a wonder that Facebook has really taken off in Hollywood circles. Best of all, its Status Updates feature lets you experience in real time the mundane ("Brad Grey is wondering how many times you have to say 'mustard on the side' before The Daily Grill begins to get it!"), the profound ("Diablo Cody is Diablo Cody is Diablo Cody is..."), the sublime highs ("James Cameron is telling you-- Avatar is going to blow your minds!"), and, in the above scenario, the painful lows of a life lived in the industry. Unfortunately, no amount of clicking by director Roger Kumble on College Road Trip's Rotten Tomatoes page is going to inch up that unlucky number 13%, or append the consensus "woefully short on comic imagination" with the phrase "but long on keenly inspired directorial flourishes!"
- College Road Trip [Rotten Tomatoes]
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CrankYank
Posted 5:54 AM 11/3/08
Eh, facebook is a precise catalog of all my friends who are
1. under 30
2. working at colleges.
Make sure to send Roger a birthday card in 2 months!
CrankYank
hack-a-rific
Posted 5:54 AM 11/3/08
um, is anyone else's Defamer going koo-koo? The alignment's all screwy and when I hit the logo it doesn't do anything. This is very upsetting for a Monday morning.
hack-a-rific
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 5:54 AM 11/3/08
@Glass_Family: And how few of them you actually want to talk to.
Sweet Panda Love
Glass_Family
Posted 5:54 AM 11/3/08
I love facebook because it reminds me how few friends I've actually made over the years.
Glass_Family
NoWireHangers
Posted 5:54 AM 11/3/08
Don't cry Roger. You did what you could. I would say a majority of the blame lies with any one of the films FOUR writers.
NoWireHangers
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 5:54 AM 11/3/08
It's all about the Scrabulous. Take that away, and Facebook is dead to me.
Sweet Panda Love
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
Posted 6:35 AM 11/3/08
I know its overly complained about, but let's please kvetch about how annoying it is to be asked if I would like to be a zombie with you. I probably don't even want to have dinner with you, let alone play make believe monster with you on the internets.
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
nick_r
Posted 6:35 AM 11/3/08
@Sweet Panda Love: Oh good, I'm not the only one just in it for the Scrabulous.
nick_r
SuperUnison
Posted 8:07 AM 11/3/08
I've used it to track friends as they go through mortal illnesses and emotional meltdowns, shedding awful poetry in note form like sparks from a broken muffler.
@SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley:I've had to start de-friending over that. I think pretend monster/pirateninja bullshit goes beyond killing time and into the realm of mocking the time on this earth that you've been given.
SuperUnison
Glass_Family
Posted 8:46 AM 11/3/08
@Sweet Panda Love: surprisingly, I'd talk to just about anyone at 3 in the morning. Or maybe that isn't surprising as much as it is sad and pathetic and lonely.
Glass_Family
Superstarsteve
Posted 8:46 AM 11/3/08
I only make friends with people who are not computer driven. They wouldn't know a Facebook or Myspace from a cook book or my place.
Superstarsteve
BeAgrestic
Posted 12:31 PM 11/3/08
@SuperUnison: I hate that too. It makes me long for the days when Facebook was only at 10 universities and still in the beta phase. It wouldn't be so bad if some of the applications weren't so fucking dumb.
There is an app that translates English into text speak. -sigh-
BeAgrestic
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
Posted 5:41 PM 12/3/08
@SuperUnison: and how!@BeAgrestic: Ok, no need for snobbery...
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley