if movies were honest high school parties (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Mar 12, 2013

What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• I wrote the central essay in this issue, explaining the reason why it’s so important that more women get involved in making films. On newsstands now! movieScope Launches Women in Film Issue

• But then the overgrown adolescents who make these movies would lose their adolescent fantasies… If movies were honest about what high school parties are really like.

• The AWFJ (of which I am a member) is spreading some more awards love around… Salem Film Fest 2013: Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Award Winners

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Danielm80

Tue, Mar 12, 2013 12:39am

If high school parties were like the movies, then high schoolers wouldn’t need to go out to teen movies.

PJK

reply to Danielm80

Tue, Mar 12, 2013 6:53am

Actually here in the Netherlands we are still working through the aftermath of a party getting completely out of hand in the city of Haren. A young girl by accident posted the invitation to her 15th birthday party to the whole of Facebook instead of just er friends and through a chain of events this let to a crowd of more than 30000 people to turn up, which sparked a riot.

The whole story can be found here => http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FProject_X_Haren

The moral of this story is: “When using Facebook, be very careful with the posting options you select!”