William Shatner Takes On Social Networking 294
nut writes "Everybody's favourite actor, author and starship captain is bringing some new ideas to the world of social networking. Myouterspace.com is, in the Captain's own words, '...a Sci Fi Social Network for those with a passion for the arts.' Facebook and Myspace should be worried. Sign up now. Go on, you know you want to."
How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:5, Funny)
KHAAAAAAN!
obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
ws: its,,,,, a series of,,,,,,,, noobs
ln: fascinating
Should've called it... (Score:5, Funny)
...Spacebook?
HYPErspace? No, wait, Lucas got that already.
Whatever you call it, as ideas go, it's pure Shat.
Captain (Score:5, Funny)
Everybody's favourite actor, author and starship captain
Jean-Luc Picard?
Facinating... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not social networking... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:5, Funny)
It is logical (Score:5, Funny)
Amas enough virgins in one place, and one of them is likely to get laid................
I'm givin' it all she's got, Captain! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:5, Funny)
Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not a DBA.
Don't do it. You will not be able to resist. (Score:4, Funny)
The year is 2045 and "tek," a highly addictive computer-based reality drug takes the users of the drug into a fantasy world.
Oh, I see where you're going here, Shatner!
To all you slashdot readers, please heed my words...
"JUST SAY NO!"
First? (Score:5, Funny)
It's the first anti-social network.
Re:I would but..... (Score:5, Funny)
If that comment was on any other website besides /. I'd think it was a joke, but I'm not so sure here...
Shatner will be everything to Social Networking... (Score:4, Funny)
...that he has been to acting. And music [google.com].
Scotty, beam him up, please!
Twitter should be scared too. (Score:5, Funny)
In order to foster his unique style, and to one-up Twitter, the main form of communication on this social networking site are tiny posts, known as "Shats", limited to exactly one word.
Re:It is logical (Score:4, Funny)
One?! I'm thinking most of 'em already get the kind of "laid" where it only happens to one.. ;)
Re:Not social networking... (Score:5, Funny)
Idiot.
Re:I would but..... (Score:3, Funny)
It wasn't a joke! (Score:5, Funny)
I DID plan on talking to her! I even wrote some (pseudo) code for said conversation:
if (!ArmPitsSmell() && CrustinessOfClothes() != OH_MY_GAWD_TOO_CRUSTY) {
var sexytime = Girl.ComplimentTeeth();
if (sexytime) {
FeelBoobs();
CleanPants();
} else {
AssumeFetalPosition();
}
}
Star trek networking (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Twitter should be scared too. (Score:3, Funny)
Okay,...
shat...
is...
coming ...
out
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Captain! Captain! The server is Slashdotted! There's fecal antimatter all over the deck! If we don't upgrade soon she'll blow apart!
[/Scotty]
Re:Twitter should be scared too. (Score:1, Funny)
Your post isn't Shat enough.
Let me rewrite it.
In order to foster his unique style, and to one-up Twitter, the main form of communication, on this social networking site, are tiny posts, known entirely as "Shats".
Re:It is logical (Score:5, Funny)
Amas enough virgins in one place, and one of them is likely to get laid................
I think you mean "amass".
Hmm, except "amas" means "you love" in Latin.
Never mind. Carry on.
Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm bringin' up all the servers we've got, Captain! If those Slashdotter's push it any harder the whole thing will blow!
Re:Twitter should be scared too. (Score:3, Funny)
In order to foster his unique style, and to one-up Twitter, the main form of communication on this social networking site are tiny posts, known as "Shats", limited to exactly one word.
Screw you, buddy. Now I have to wipe yogurt out of my keyboard.
Apparently their servers believe... (Score:2, Funny)
Plan to deal with obnoxious users and trolls (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not social networking... (Score:4, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First? (Score:5, Funny)
It's the first anti-social network.
Truly News for Nerds, Stuff that Antimatters.
Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:5, Funny)
I would suggest that everybody register with that name, just vary the number of A's in it.
Re:Let's Talk About Captain Kirk's Resurrection... (Score:2, Funny)
For a big enough paycheck, I suspect he'd eat live babies on national television.
Someone start up a paypal donation page!
Re:Don't bother - it's pretentious suckage. (Score:5, Funny)
Really?? I mean..."Creatia"? What kind of fucking tin-ear thought up that name? It's ugly on the eyes and hits the ears like a volley of spit. If words could smell, "Creatia" would be a waft of ass. If you're a writer, or a hope-to-be writer, and you see a social network for writers with a name like "Creatia", your best instincts have got to tell you to run for the hills.
God, what an embarrassment. Can you imagine that someone thought up "Creatia" and then pitched it to other people as if it were a real brainstorm - a real stroke of creative genius.
This is one of the problems with the Internet: there's no "farm club" where you can learn your trade in a reasonably supportive atmosphere where you can be criticized and work the shitty ideas out of your system without the entire fucking world seeing them.
Maybe this guy is a wannabe ad-writer or something, and hopes to get a job somewhere, someday. Unfortunately, in some cache, encased in carbonite, there's going to be a permanent record of "Creatia" and he will never, ever be able to live it down. He's going to be looking for a job, maybe in competition with a few other writers, and somebody's going to pull out this turd and say, "Hey, was this your work?" and that's it. Game over, man. Maybe he can write copy for Home Shopping Network or come up with model-names for some Korean auto manufacturer, but even then, he'll know that one day he put "Creatia" on the internet for all the world to see and will know, deep down, that no matter how big he gets, no matter how rich, he'll know that he's not worth shit as a writer, and the first time he had a chance to be creative, in fact, to define creativity with the name of a social network for creative people, the best he could come up with is "Creatia".
And he'll get flop-sweat. And he'll double-down on the anti-depressants and Grey Goose and sometime, somewhere, he'll end up face down in a swimming pool because he shat the bed with the entire Internet watching.
Honestly, he ought to change his name right now, go back to school and get an accounting degree, and never again try to be creative because it will only end badly. If you're the guy who came up with "Creatia" and you're reading this, I hope you understand that I'm only looking out for you. You ought to thank me.
Re:Captain (Score:2, Funny)
dnalgne elttil?
Must be in Whales.
Re:Not social networking... (Score:3, Funny)
It also seems to have a rigid structure perhaps verging on caste. Everyone has a particular planet (and perhaps spaceship) that they can belong to which seems based somehow on their interests. That sounds likely to exacerbate the problems you mention above.
Geocities is dead! Long live Geocities!
Re:Not social networking... (Score:1, Funny)
Would be funny to pack all the ACs together,
What? Have other people been using my account?
I knew I should have set a password..,..
Well I had until you reminded me! F'ing Great - (Score:1, Funny)
now the nightmares will start again. This time you're paying for the therapy!
Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:3, Funny)
Without the social part. And the networking.
There's an app for that (Score:5, Funny)
New feature: Twit (Score:1, Funny)
Kind of like Twitter, but you can.... only tweet... in fifteen... character.... segments at.... a time.
Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? (Score:3, Funny)
She's dead, Jim.