You Should Be On Facebook

***a blog I wrote for SavvyDaddy

Trust me, this article isn’t some kind of grassroots promotion to get our readers on our Facebook page or to help Facebook attain more traffic (I think they’re doing fine without our help). If anything, I’m using the whole idea of Facebook to drive a point. I could have just as easily used other examples such as Myspace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter or whatever social network du jour that exists out there to convey this simple message: Get familiar with social networking on the Web, because if you’re lagging behind now, well, your kids are going to blow you out of the water.

Our generation was born into the inception and the growing concept of the Internet. By simple process of deduction, that would make our children the first generation to grow up completely immersed in what we know as the golden age of the Internet. If you were born circa 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s, you didn’t touch a computer until early teens, and you weren’t embracing the Internet until late teens or your twenties. We grew up looking at the computer as a pragmatic machine used for data storage, compiling file documents and processing information. Our kids are growing up looking at the computer as an outlet to their social life. We are modern, they are postmodern. In other words, we are cavemen of the Internet times.

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Judd Apatow on Asian Gangs … (and other non sequiturs)

Not sure why, but while reading the recent GQ article about Seth Rogen and his new flick, Pineapple Express, this quote from producer/director extraordinaire, Judd Apatow, made me laugh out loud.

Seth Rogen

“That’s the debate that Seth and I have been having for the last six years,” says Apatow, who does not dispute Rogen’s characterization of him as an ‘anti-pot person.’ “He thinks we’re making a pot movie, and I think we’re making an anti-pot movie. In my head, [Pineapple] is clearly a story of how pot leads to Asian gangs trying to murder you.”

Apparently a very scary Asian gang

Other stuff that’s kind of funny:

- My buddy KW was twittering, and this is what was tweeted: “Also, if someone has acne on their chest, is it called ‘chest-ne’?? And what if the person’s name is Kenny?”

Kenny Chesney

- Then I brought KW’s observation to a colleague of mine, PS, and this was his response: “At the risk of being slightly too literal … acne on the face is called acne, not facene.  Acne on the neck is called acne, not neckne. So my answer to your question about acne on the chest is: no, it’s not OK. It’s an abomination.”

- Lastly, this article on Slate is written by a guy who is obviously bitter against Michael Chang’s tennis career. Still, it’s a funny take on how Chang’s rise to tennis stardom stunted his own dreams.

The legendary Michael Chang

Gary Busey and Astro Boy (Need I Say More …)

The videos on this site are hilarious. Basically, it’s Gary Busey giving entrepreneurial insights. Here’s a tiny url of the site: http://tinyurl.com/63gbjr. Portfolio wrote an article about this viral campaign for GotvMail. The founder of the company and conceiver of the idea had a couple great quotes that sum up the video campaign:

“One finance guy told me, ‘this is the greatest marketing campaign I’ve seen since Priceline used William Shatner.’”

“I still don’t think he (Busey) knows what he did. His agent was the one who was involved, who could focus him a little bit. He’s an interesting character. And he knows nothing about business.”

This just made my launch into the weekend that much more enjoyable.

By the way, I bit the bullet and I’m officially a Twitter(er) at http://twitter.com/wonki78. My buddy KW designed the profile pic which I think makes me look like Astro Boy. Compare below: