EXPLOIT THE SCENE With Kyle “Kore” Parsons Episode 2: SocialVibe Pink balls galore! Welcome to the newest installment of web-community-mayhem at its absolute best. Since the explosion of Myspace, web communities of all kinds have become a social necessity for everyday life. “Like OMG you’re hot, do you have Myspace?” (Phone numbers are so year 2000.) Regardless of the social changes and prior ethics put into question by internet-information-sharing, we have all been affected by the idea of instant communication and all its wonders. (You know, you can shop around a little and figure out if that love interest is a creep before getting trapped on that first date – or even that first call.) Really, it makes stalking super convenient! Psh, anything in person is just so… personal. Web communities have developed themselves overtime just as everything does, and now we finally have a social networking system dedicated in helping VS catching your bf sneaking around. I introduce you to SocialVibe – and if you haven’t heard of it ‘til now I promise you’ll pick up on its activity soon. The general concept behind SocialVibe is to raise money for charities. It’s simple and quick. First – sign up at www.SocialVibe.com. Once you have joined the web community you are asked to choose a “cause” based on a charity for education, environment, health, hunger, animals, culture, and human rights. For example, if you have a special interest in poverty-stricken children, you could choose Invisible Children from the human rights area as your charity of choice. Finally you are to choose a “sponsor” (which are just a series of large companies that grab your privileged viewer’s eyes and help you to raise money for your underprivileged charity.) Some of the popular sponsors are Coca-Cola Cherry, Sprint, Xbox, Apple, Juicy Couture, NBA, and dozens more. So how does it work? Once you get the code for your flashy SocialVibe widget you can then stick it all over your other web communities such as Facebook, Friendster, Myspace, etc. (You have Myspace – who are you kidding!?) Your affiliation with MAC, UFC, Rockstar energy drinks, or whatever you’ve chosen will interest your viewers. Every time an individual clicks your sponsor through your widget – we all win! 1. The sponsor is allocated “free” advertisement through your web community and thus creates potential sales for that company. 2. The cause, or charity, is then granted a small portion of money from your sponsor as a marketing agreement. 3. And you, the awesome SocialViber, are rewarded with points! The points system ranks you with other with other SocialVibe accounts and can earn you prizes. For example, some kid won a Nintendo Wii from Sprint today. Wii shmii I say! What you really want to win from SocialVibe is one of those notorious pink balls to take a HOT picture with! (Ohh Kyle, I thought you were just being perverted in paragraph 1.)
This has cleared a path for “internet personalities” of all kinds to use their massive page-views toward something positive (and maybe with such a positive organization it will entice those degrading girls on Myspace with their forced cleavage and overdone makeup to clean up and think more about helping others in the world? …Unless of course you run into one of the many that find interesting bodily-niches to place their SocialVibe balls… *clears throat* at least they’re being charitable sluts though, right? But really, if you could get a penny for every hit that Chocolate Rain dude has on YouTube you could feed a village! I think more organizations out there should be taking the kind of responsibility that SocialVibe has started, and use advertisers, internet personalities, and meaningless clicking-around on the web for something greater. Regardless, clicking on a SocialVibe link may be the best thing you’ve done for our planet or society today. Think about it. I also recommend checking out their site if you are interested in any other type of social service or event they are participating in. Please check out this video from SocialVibe: