Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Facebook quotes – Everyone Needs Ideas Sometimes. Right?
For some time I’ve be searching the internet, hubpages and so many place for funny and creative funny Facebook quotes ideas. I find great joy changing my status on Facebook and getting a laugh each time I do. I try to update my status about 4 times a day.
Facebook quotes
My research
There are tons of websites that offer pages of advice on how to write creative Facebook quotes. I decided to divide each of these ideas into a number of categories. In this article I will discuss three; the special character, statuses with puns or smart gags and more fun and inspiring special characters
Funny Facebook Status Ideas – Example number 1 – Stars and Stripes
Example ★★★★★★★★★★★ I’ve got the stars…. now where are the stripes?
In the USA people become very patriotic after 9/11 and from then on no one was every ashamed to show they cared about their home and the people who defend it for us all year long and beyond. Showing your friends that you care while still getting them to laugh is great. With all the important patriotic holidays it’s a great way to show you really do care. The American is known all over the world even someone who isn’t living in America will know just what you are talking about.
Example Number 2 – Reality Humor
Example : I can’t decide between the “starts tomorrow” diet and the “ see-food” diet… Any Ideas?
Almost everyone has been on a diet at some point in their life… It’s not easy. And like all things in life; humor makes it so much easier. Show the funny side of dieting. This can easily brighten the day of someone who is on a very strict diet due to health or anything.
Example number 3 – The Facebook status hoax
Example: Steve is uploading a virus ████████████ 83%
Because of the many famous YouTube hoax vidoes online that were replaced a few years back; many people enjoy tricking their friends. However I wouldn’t use this on people who are new to computers you might actually confuse them and they may end up very upset.
Now go come up with your own Facebook quotes!
Monday, December 21st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
An internet campaign was the impetus behind the Christmas number one single competition in the UK being won by Rage Against The Machine, and not the widely expected winner of the popular X Factor television show, Joe McElderry.
In recent years, the winner of the televised talent show has been the most popular single in the Christmas chart, usually beating its opponents by numbers ranging in the hundreds of thousands. But this year, the power of Facebook, social networking and MSN has been harnessed by a couple working from their kitchen.
Facebook and Twitter campaign wins Christmas number one in UK
The campaign began because they viewed Christmas as a sacred time, and they thought that the race for Christmas number 1 had been all but destroyed by the popoularity of the television show. With this idea in mind they created a Facebook group encouraging people to boycott buying the X-Factor single and directing people to buy the Rage Against The Machine effort instead.
The messages were sent in large part via Facebook chat, and support was also shown in people’s status messages and updates. Myspace was also leveraged in the plan to good effect, as was Twitter – with thousands of tweets during the week urging people to go out and buy the single, or download it. The Rage Against The Machine single set a new record for single sales in its first week in the UK.
With more than 600,000 tracks bought, the only true winners in this case are the record companies, who have made a bundle of money on the back of both campaigns. What is most suprising is that people were so quick to buy the RATM single which does not seem to be extremely ‘Chistmasey’ in spirit.
The power of social networking is clear when it comes to situations such as this, where mobilizing large numbers of people to act is just the click of a mouse away. It remains to be seen if this sort of mobilization is anything more than a fad, or if can be used for something more constructive such as raising money for charity in the coming months and years.