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Friday, 27 April 2012

satire about current event


Zuckerberg purchases the world
- by vivmeister and heather2


  
Just two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg’s big enterprise social network, Facebook, took control of the iPhone Application, Instagram. Just today, Good Morning America announced that Zuckerberg has taken the next step and bought Google, Hotmail, and Microsoft Windows Technology Co. In his most recent interview, he confessed that his “next big goal is to buy Apple and Sony to combine and make the best social network and social networking devices in history.” (New York Times)
 
On the topic of Instragram, the majority of Zuckerberg’s supporters feel that it was a beneficial move to the development of social networking. “And it was like only like a billion dollars, like it could have been like more. It was like such a good like buy ‘cause it’s like worth like that much, like gosh!” reports a Facebook employee of the headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

Instagram allows you to post photographs to your Facebook Timeline with very interesting filters that make you seem like a professional photographer. For example, with this improvement, you will be able to share pictures of mundane activities in your life, such as going to the bathroom, putting on mascara, or stubbing your toe on the coffee table, all in a very sophisticated manner. Instagram and Facebook combined have an infinite number of uses.

Clearly, Zuckerberg is a very skilled economizer. His company’s capital income is one of the largest grossing in the United States of America. With the purchase of these new top-notch sites and companies (Google, Hotmail, and Microsoft), he has only expended a mere thirty billion dollars from his company’s income.  This 2010 Man of the Year states, “I figure I spend as much on coffee. It’s not a really big deal, you know.” His new plan is to connect Google and Hotmail by re-creating them into Facebook applications, all to improve your stocking experience. From the introduction on the Facebook website, “Your Facebook friends will always be notified when you search a simple thing on the new Google App, or open an email from the new Hotmail App.” Also, in the near future, Microsoft Windows Technology Co. will be the suppliers of computers that have one sole function: Facebook.

Not only has he only spent one billion dollars to keep Twitter from getting his prized Instagram, he will also be dropping another billion on his new project, Petbook. Petbook, a branch of Facebook, will involve a new social network site, dedicated to the house pets of America. He has already created a draft account for his dog, Beast (his profile picture is a professional studio photograph of the Hungarian sheepdog). 

Through this means, our social life as human beings will be improved greatly by this new Facebook combination. Everyone will be capable of communicating more efficiently. The world will be full of the sharing of all information with a single website. Zuckerberg is certainly a man of immense power. We can only sit back and admire his work. Society will be greatly improved with this new transformation, credited to the creator of Facebook.

Thursday, 26 April 2012

satirical article number one


The Peak of Evolution: Music now creates the greatest success of all time



“Hot Problems”, a song by Double Take, debuted on YouTube as an Internet sensation that became viral in April, and has since then triggered great interest from the audience. Subsequently, I decided to investigate this wild reaction from the viewers of “Hot Problems”. After several interviews among students and adult listeners, all they had to say was “Wow. This is the best song I have ever heard in all my life.” 

Of course, being a journalist, I had to do my research prior to interviewing. From what I saw, the song definitely deserves recognition for its incredible musicality. It was written and performed by Double Take, composed of two teenage girls who passionately sing about their struggles of “being hot and pretty” in their melodious voices. The song consists of about four different notes (albeit off-pitch, but I'm sure it was intended to add a special effect) and about two different harmonies, which creates immense musical variety.

From a Facebook interview, “Jacqueline Angell Bieberrxxx” revealed her opinion about “Hot Problems”, writing that, “there is like an inexplicable way the singers can like make us like understand exactly like what theyre saying!!! like omg i know exactly how like hot girls struggle becuz theyre like thought of as like stuck up and stuff but like really theyre like normal people even though like people start rumours like about them. like i luvvv Hot Problems cuz its like totally relatable♥♥ like xoxox.” From the video’s 26 000 likes on YouTube, I can conclude that this is the opinion of the majority.

The song and video resemble the creativity of the greatest musical works, something that is very difficult to achieve. The girls are shown wearing loads of makeup (not bad for skin at all) and skimpy clothes, partying in a limo for the entire duration of the video. They are obviously having fun, dancing to a catchy beat, and being carefree like the teenagers this generation should be like. 

 “Hot girls, we have problems, too.
We’re just like you,
Except we’re hot.”

In addition, these inventive lyrics are reminiscent of songs such as Justin Bieber’s “Baby”, and Rebecca Black’s “Friday”, which are both favourites of listeners. 

The best of the Biebs:
“Baby, baby, baby, oh!
Baby, baby, baby, oh!“

RB’s creative and educational lyrics:
“Yesterday was Thursday,
Today is Friday,
Tomorrow is Saturday,
And Sunday comes afterwards.”


When it comes to recognizing the inner material of the song, we know that Double Take is wise in their advice. They believe that hot girls should not care about wits and should only want to have fun. Again, like the beloved Rebecca Black in her song “Friday”, the importance of partying plays a major role. Clearly, this has influenced teenagers of our time in a positive way. Combining their prodigious musicality and genius lyricism, “Hot Problems” could very well become the milestone in the evolution of music.


In conclusion, this song and music video have the potential to become a perpetual number one in the billboard charts. This masterpiece has definitely beaten out all composers and musicians of before. My recommendation to you is that musical taste is important in your lifestyle, so make sure to have this song on your music player (only costs $0.99 and takes a few seconds to download). I myself even bought seven (7) copies of the song on iTunes to put on my iPod. I assure you that listening to music of such talent is worth it.