Epic Fail - Status Kill
- 8 years ago
An assassin with a Facebook account. For serious.
I go to my favorite social networks everyday. Every hour. I can't stop. Follow my Twitter. Become my Facebook friend. Like me! This is the world we now live in. We are all stars in each other lives via sites "like" Facebook, Twitter, and many others. We comment to impress and love to know we are heard. You love/hate these things, and so do we. You find the ever changing rules of communication maddening and so do we. You wish you had more time to do it (and more will power to quit it) and so do we.
Disagree? Why is it that real life lately is called "being offline"? Why is it that being online seems like the only real thing going? What the f**k happened to using the phone!? This was the inspiration for making Status Kill. Denton Sparks, our "hero", is supposed to be working, but is doing what we all do when faced with work -- we chat with our friends. Unfortunately Denton's job as a professional assassin doesn't lend itself to aimless banter (we know it's not ALL aimless) as by being online sometimes in the middle of a firefight can lead to a quick demise, but he simply can't help it! Denton, in all his killer perfection, has become the ultimate addict to "TweetFacester", the world's biggest social network, and his online life has become the center of his "offline" albeit somewhat more dangerous day job.
Status Kill is slated to be an ongoing series that will chat about all the things that we should be conscious of such as: contextual advertising, privacy, the meaning of online relationships in our REAL lives, The cost of constant intermittent communication which never actually tells us anything, sharing a profile with a grandparent, niece, and hot chick/dude you are trying to hook up with. Etc. Etc Etc. It's all VERY confusing and Denton, the extreme version of us real world addicts, will stumble through it all while on the world's most dangerous missions.
I go to my favorite social networks everyday. Every hour. I can't stop. Follow my Twitter. Become my Facebook friend. Like me! This is the world we now live in. We are all stars in each other lives via sites "like" Facebook, Twitter, and many others. We comment to impress and love to know we are heard. You love/hate these things, and so do we. You find the ever changing rules of communication maddening and so do we. You wish you had more time to do it (and more will power to quit it) and so do we.
Disagree? Why is it that real life lately is called "being offline"? Why is it that being online seems like the only real thing going? What the f**k happened to using the phone!? This was the inspiration for making Status Kill. Denton Sparks, our "hero", is supposed to be working, but is doing what we all do when faced with work -- we chat with our friends. Unfortunately Denton's job as a professional assassin doesn't lend itself to aimless banter (we know it's not ALL aimless) as by being online sometimes in the middle of a firefight can lead to a quick demise, but he simply can't help it! Denton, in all his killer perfection, has become the ultimate addict to "TweetFacester", the world's biggest social network, and his online life has become the center of his "offline" albeit somewhat more dangerous day job.
Status Kill is slated to be an ongoing series that will chat about all the things that we should be conscious of such as: contextual advertising, privacy, the meaning of online relationships in our REAL lives, The cost of constant intermittent communication which never actually tells us anything, sharing a profile with a grandparent, niece, and hot chick/dude you are trying to hook up with. Etc. Etc Etc. It's all VERY confusing and Denton, the extreme version of us real world addicts, will stumble through it all while on the world's most dangerous missions.