Slashdot Mirror
4chan Founder Chris Poole Will Try To Fix Social At Google (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google never "got" social. For all the resources thrown at it, Google+ just never quite felt human. But luckily Google just hired the guy behind 4chan -- a site that epitomized the good, the bad and the ugly of humanity on the internet. Chris Poole started 4chan in his bedroom at age 15. In the 12 years since, he built it into a 20 million active user image-sharing community around topics ranging from cosplay and cute animals to anime porn and the notoriously uncensored anonymous channel /b/. While Google probably won't force him into a suit and tie, Poole now has a much more corporate job: He'll be working under Google's Bradley Horowitz, VP of streams, photos and sharing. Poole writes: "When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm -- as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I'm also impressed by Google's commitment to enabling these same talented people to tackle some of the world's most interesting and important problems."
This'll work.
#DeleteChrome
Poole continued, saying: "But what I mostly appreciate are the millions of dollars that Google is giving me."
...this thread blows up with memes and fail
4chan is social in the way a mosh pit is technically people interacting in a social environment.
It started as a 2chan clone
For Mootles friends a little home
A place to chat and call their own
and let ideas free to roam.
When you let ideas free
There is no way to certainly
contain their strength and make them be
again your own, So Moot did see:
A visitor, or two or ten
and hundreds more who came to lend
a thought, a hand, a new-found friend
But bigger! moar! it would not end.
By word of mouth there rose a roar
No longer dozens, came by score
of thousands, millions! many more
their thoughts and dreams to there outpour.
And what had once been just a board
and just a place to strike a chord
or crack a joke, well now they warred
against some random other horde.
The memes! the battles! lulz and games!
Boisterous with varied aims
to close a pool or mock a dame's
unworthy vapid haughty claims.
And so our 4chan grew and grew
it gave us wings to fly, and glue
and with our posts turned us into
the family that we never knew
But all good things will find an end
The highest fall.. our souls did rend
Right in the back, a knife did send
our once beloved leader, friend.
Cuck! Cuck! the evil fuck
who sold his family for a buck!
Who sold his soul and freedom's cry
for some ugly bitch he saw pass by
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
If by "it" you mean the stuff that collects under the refrigerator.
You are welcome on my lawn.