The war will be Facebook live streamed
A conversation between 2006 you and 2016 me.
Right, so we have this big social media website now called Facebook —
Oh yeah, I’ve heard about that. But it’s only for students at the moment, right? How big is big in 2016?
Oh, it’s massive. Almost two billion users.
Two billion?! Holy sh —
Yes, yes, alright. I know it’s a shock. YouTube is still about, too; that’s doing well. Twitter got popular, then kinda stopped growing. There’s also Snapchat and Instagram and Pinterest now.
You lost me at whatever Snapchat is.
Jeez, where do I start? So, Snapchat is a photo and video sharing app where everything disappears forever after ten seconds. It pretty much got popular because people could send risk-free nudes.
App? As in on a computer? People send photos and videos using webcams?
Forget it, doesn’t matter. We’re getting off-topic, let me get to my point: Facebook recently released something called Facebook live streaming and —
Live streaming? Come on, we did that in like, 1995.
Not quite how we’re doing it now. You have a lot to look forward to. Anyway, listen. Facebook now lets its users — people just like you and me — live stream straight from their profiles. It’s really quite a big deal.
Wait, how can everyone afford such big cameras?
Oh man, this is too complicated. Mobile phones have come a long way. Well, they’re usually called smartphones now. Steve Jobs is gonna blow your mind in January next year.
Wait —
NO. STOP ASKING QUESTIONS. AL JAZEERA LIVE STREAMED A GODDAMN WAR ON FACEBOOK YESTERDAY AND IT HAS OVER 895,000 VIEWS AND I’M NOT SURE I’M PREPARED FOR WARS TO BE SHOWN LIVE AS THEY HAPPEN. DEATH, SUFFERING, HATRED — EVERYTHING WRONG WITH HUMANITY — WAS CASUALLY BEING SHOWN TO A POTENTIAL AUDIENCE OF NEARLY TWO BILLION PEOPLE. IT’S SICK. IT’S WRONG. It’s exactly what I want the future not to be.
Sooooo, I could live stream my cat using one of these new smartphones?
