Do you believe in ghosts? Do you believe in aliens? Do you think that Elvis never really died, and simply went back to his home planet? Well I have some great news for you, that will be a lot easier to believe than all three of those questions.
It is rumored, so who knows if it will happen, that a certain notable Hollywood director, is about to launch a very interesting social network in the upcoming future. Now, this director/producer/genius is known for several films including, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Poltergeist (1982), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Casper (1995), Men in Black (1997), The Haunting (1999), War of the Worlds (2005). If you don't know who I'm talking about yet, you probably should give up on life right now. Just kidding!
Of course I'm talking about the esteemed and amazing director Steven Spielberg! For one reason or another it seems Spielberg has been drawn to supernatural stories his whole career, so in some odd fashion it seems like a logical idea to create a social network, called Ghost Town, for people who are as intrigued as him. What is interesting to me is his choice of actually making it a social network. This will be an amazing site to watch if not just to laugh at some of the people that live in the mountains of Northwest Arkansas (I have a right to laugh at them, I lived there!) who will finally upgrade their 56k so they can connect with others who've also been 'ducted by a spaceship! One can only imagine the features that will exists but I'm hoping for video uploads, and a few other features I think will work nicely:
1) Instead of a "poke" function, how about we get a "Haunt" function, so you can see all the people that are haunting you, ooooooh scary!
2) A google map interface where people can drop a little pin showing where you have been abducted around the world! If you hover your mouse over a pin, we also get a neat little story about what happened on their trip. For some reason I can only see pins being dropped on very, very rural areas....
3) Usually social networks allow users within a certain region to sign up, i.e. Myspace Australia, Myspace Latino. But, for this one we got to go all out, we need to open this up for users from other DIMENSIONS! I'm talking outer space, black holes, heaven, hell, Hades, Limbo, and any other place we might find ghouls, goblins, ghosts, aliens, or space creatures. Come ON let's do this right!
In conclusion, this most likely will be one of the greatest experiments in social media. It also shows that there is a network for practically anyone in the world these days, and if there isn't one now, just wait, it's probably coming. So I'm going to pop some popcorn and start counting down the days to Ghost Town's arrival. Well I probably won't pop it yet, because it would get stale probably before the site came up, but yeah you get the picture, I'm excited!
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