Can An Upstart Social Network Really Inspire Us To Be Better People?
Here we are. Closing in on being live for three whole weeks. Barely any time at all in the lifecycle of most things. But a social network isn’t most things. It lives in a world of RAPID change. A world where posts are forgotten in minutes, sent way below the fold and made irrelevant in the blink of an eye. Where it feels like we’re watching the evolution of functionality under time-lapse photography thanks to crazy-smart developers and interactive creatives/producers constantly striving to make the last mindbending innovation obsolete. Where the power of Facebook and Twitter daily set the bar ever-higher due to their tireless management and maintenance and brilliance. So when you’re playing in this realm, three weeks is actually a pretty long time. Enough time to fairly take a minute to look at the progress thusfar and give ourselves a grade. And a time to question what we might need to add, what we might need to take away, and how much more we might want to bleed our savings accounts to do so. So here goes: Personally I’m pretty satisfied. Without any paid-PR and with the radically polarizing word “fucking” smack-dab in the middle of our name and url, we’re already over 1,200 members strong. With one developer working when he can find the time after his super-dmanding day-job, we manage to answer most requests and hurdle obstacles without crashing (no jinxing, please). And perhaps most encouraging, we notice that members who haven’t posted in weeks occasionally do come back and write a FAdeed. It’s also encouraging that people seem to understand the over-arching concept here and for the most part y’all are voting on FAdeeds accordingly. Which leads to perhaps the only question that matters: Can an upstart social network really help us be better people? Can Be Fucking Awesome dot com work its way into our subconscious and remind us to look for opportunities to carry out a Fucking Awesome deed – that which we do for the benefit of others – so that we may post it later and network socially around it? Speaking for myself, I say it can. And if more of you agree, then that’s all we might need to keep this baby going. To add simple but key functionality to befuckingawesome.com’s interactivity and fun-factor such as our comment system. (Coming very soon – and we think you’ll find it very FA – http://twitpic.com/l9xsv). To be satisfied with baby steps. And remain fully conscious that even Twitter and Facebook, MySpace and Friendster (remember them) had to walk before they could run. Last weekend when we posted our blog entry, it was gratifying to see the comments come in. So thank you for that. And this week we’re hoping for more of the same. So thank you for reading. Thank you in advance for helping us spread the word with your blogs and Tweets and re-Tweets. And thank you for staying FA.
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By John & Sue Fry, October 17, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
Well, I agree with you and it’s not because I admire you so much and love you with all my heart. But BFA has made a difference in my life. Being retired we don’t get a lot of opportunity to do many of FAdeeds so it makes it a bit more challenging. But every day I wonder what FAdeed will I be able to do today? And off I go looking for one or two. Keep up the good work, you are a STAR!!
By Chris Kelly, October 19, 2009 @ 10:19 pm
I think it’s already making a difference in people’s lives!
By Tiffany, February 7, 2010 @ 1:43 am
That shit just moved me. Seriously your fucking awesome. Keep up the hard work. We need so many more people like you out there.