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Videos: When Social Networks enter Popular Culture

June 04th, 2008 | Category: Social Networking, Video

Social Networks have started to penetrate not just the culture of youths, but now pop culture, TV satires, and a general joke we here at many cocktail parties. Enjoy the following videos.


Poking Granny’s Boyfriend On Facebook


Confirm or Ignore: Facebook in Real Life “Status Updaate!”


Trendspotting, MySpace, Facebook, and kids listing ‘things’


Social Network Wars: MySpace vs Friendster vs Facebook vs SecondLife “Awkward….”

If you know of other social network related videos, leave a comment below:

11 Comments so far

  1. Phil June 4th, 2008 7:20 am

    Awesome! I think the last part of the last video is the wisest way to go. Social networks are great and cool, but sometimes you just have to go out to an outdoor cafe, soak up the rays and trade war stories with your buds.

    Thanks for those Jeremiah

  2. Rachel Beer June 4th, 2008 7:37 am

    How about this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEdIiOk-L10

  3. jeremiah_owyang June 4th, 2008 7:40 am

    Good one Rachel I remember that one on Techcrunch

  4. Alexis Karlin June 5th, 2008 5:28 am

    OMG LMAO!

  5. jeremiah_owyang June 5th, 2008 7:16 am

    Alexis,

    Heh, my parents wouldn’t even understand that!

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  7. Ed Healy June 5th, 2008 1:05 pm

    When Google’s parents leave town…

    http://ephealy.livejournal.com/30338.html

    Second Life Parody

    http://ephealy.livejournal.com/40775.html

  8. jeremiah_owyang June 6th, 2008 2:38 am

    Oh man these are good. thanks for this Ed. Will feature these later.

  9. Evy June 6th, 2008 12:38 pm

    A MySpace intervention by other websites (Warning for some content): http://www.cracked.com/video_16271_internet-party-2-intervention-myspace.html

  10. Adam Gershenbaum June 7th, 2008 8:22 am

    Ahahahaha the social networks wars is LOL. Been watching it repeatedly the past week. HAve you seen Weezer’s new video? I have a post with it in my blog. They got as many well known viral video producers as they could to be in the video. I was like HAAAI GAIZ?! All the usual suspects are in it.

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