An ode to Super Poke
Remember when young folk singers with guitars sang songs about love and unrequited love and wrote 63 songs about a their exes? Meet the new generation, who express their emotions for applications on social networks. "What would you do if I Super Poked you? What would you say if I threw a sheep your way?" begins a ditty from YouTube user iamthejoey, who spends the next two minutes and twenty-one seconds convincing her audience to join Facebook and sign up for the Super Poke application by widget maker Slide. (And do it soon, one hopes, before Facebook kneecaps Super Poke once and for all.) For those who choose to stay with a lesser social network? Her reply is one that Palo Alto execs should look into for their next marketing slogan: "You say that you already have a MySpace page, but I say that you're living in the dark age."