Dwight Schrute on Google Friend Connect
When I first read about Google Friend Connect, an upcoming service that will allow website owners to easily add social network functionality to their own websites, I immediately thought of these lines from NBC’s “The Office”:
Dwight: Why am I being forced to come in tomorrow and pretend that a website made sales that I made?
Ryan: This is a temporary measure to increase the legitimacy of the site.
Stanley: I don’t like when my clients call me to help them use the website, I’m not seeing commissions on that.
Ryan: I hear you Stanley, that is a great observation. Problems like that will not happen when we launch Dunder Mifflin Infinity 2 point O.
Stanley: When will that be?
Ryan: TBD. Phyllis?
Phyllis: Did the police solve the problem with the…
Ryan: Yes, yes they did, yes they did.
Ryan: Yes, the social networking feature of the Dunder Mifflin Infinity website was infiltrated by sexual predators.
Dwight: I don’t understand why our website has to have social networking at all.
Jim: Yeah, I actually have to agree with Dwight on that one.
Ryan: It’s all about creating a one stop shop consumer experience, alright? You’re chatting with your friends, you’re talking about the latest music, about the election; all of it is happening in our virtual paper store.
Jim: And then an older gentleman asked you “Boxers or briefs?”
Creed: I don’t get the big fuss here, I like the site.
Kelly: If I’d have created a website with as many problems, I’d kill myself.
Ryan: Do you have a question Kelly?
Kelly: Yeah I have a lot of questions. Number one, how dare you?
Michael: [slow clapping] Ryan has done a very good job, and I am not applauding sarcastically. Think about it, a month ago nobody would go on this site because we were worried about getting molested, or losing our identity, having it stolen. But now, at a time TBD, all of the problems will be in the past. Ya done good kid, ya done good.
– Source: OfficeQuotes.net
I thought all this was pretty funny, but the ability to drop social features onto your website with little more than some pasting of JavaScript might just prove us all wrong. :)
Example:
3 of your friends liked SemiGloss Oxford White Cardstock #80. Click here to get new friends!
Tags: Dwight Schrute, Google Friend Connect, Humor, MySpace, Online Marketing, Social Networks, The Office, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0, Web Development
May 16th, 2008 at 7:26 am
ooh, I LOOOOVE SemiGloss Oxford White Cardstock #80! When did you first start using it? I found it one day by pure luck when I was strolling the aisle at Xpedx. We should hang out sometime. How about a card making party? There will be enough SGOWC80 for all!
May 16th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I just added the Dunnner Mifflin App to my FaceBook account. Now I can order my SGOWC80 and poke my friends at the same time! I’ll keep sending you an invitation to join until you remove me for your friend list….
I love “The Office”!