Friday Vid Picks: Facebook Much?

Poke. Message. Confirm. Poke. Wall. Video? While it took Facebook a while to get around to adding video, Facebook fans have been shooting their own testimonials to the social networking site’s ability to bring us together and rip us apart. I’m still waiting for a Celebrity Death Match between Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Anderson.

Facebook Parody Ad

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A mashup of e-Harmony’s Valium soaked advertisements, these kids have all found love on Facebook. I could see this be a very effective ad campaign for Facebook: “Facebook, it’s like JDate for the unchosen.”

Facebook Song

Harmonies and facial hair have never sounded and looked so friendable as they have here, in Rhett and Link’s ode to that destructive friend making machine, Facebook.

Facebook Off

College Humor shoots a sharp, quick trailer of Antitrust sized proportions. The whole premise is a not-so-great pun on the movie’s title — and because they’re college students, they inexplicably feel the need to include a little gunplay. Still, it could teach kids a valuable lesson about identity theft. An knowing it half the battle.

God’s Facebook Page

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Barats and Bereta, who have partnered with Break.com as part of their “Break Pro” program, explore the theological quandaries of social networking.

Team Tiger Awesome’s Facebook

Relying on its actors’ abilities to emote through a single word, if you think “facebook” even is a word (because spell check keeps underlining it), we’re taken on the techno-euphoric rise and lonely self-loathsome fall through a Facebook lifetime. Truly moving.

I Can Be You Facebook Stalker

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Penn Masala’s all-too-serious website says they’re “the world’s first and premier Hindi a cappella group.” I don’t know what it is about the University of Pennsylvania, but between these guys and Melissa Lamb (check her latest teaser, up in the video reel at the top of our page for the time being) UPenn is pumping out the viral hits. Oh, and bringing in inmates, apparently.

Do You Have A Facebook?

Much of the content of this video has been debunked or directly addressed by Facebook, but the video still crops up on Digg every few months and Facebook still does raise concerns about privacy and ethics. These woes are time lined, referenced, and annotated here on Wikipedia. Take the two MIT students who download over 70,000 Facebook profiles using an automated script for example. This was way back in 2005, but check out their 76-page paper on their research here.