If Social Media Venues Had Theme Songs

The world's going increasingly multimedia. Video and web sites have become like Cheez Whiz to cheesesteak...

Online ads have transformed into mini-iMax presentations, only without someone kicking your chair...

And bloggers insist on sharing their favorite tunes as a kind of background Muzak you can't shut off quickly enough, particularly if the boss is coming by, not that that ever happens because we don't ever read these things at work no really...

(ahem)...

All designed to offer a more dynamic, sensory-oriented online experience.

But I've noticed that with all the new goodies social media sites have, they don't yet have their own theme songs--

Until now! Yes, today at Of Cabbages and Kings, I'd like to make a few preliminary suggestions for theme songs to accompany some of today's most popular social media venues.

(You'll note, I went heavy on the classic rock here, because I figured more folks would know the songs.)

• Twitter- Follow You, Follow Me (Genesis)

• Facebook- You've Got a Friend (Carol King) or, given the mind-boggling number of farm and stray pet apps, At The Zoo (Simon & Garfunkel)

• MySpace- Fifteen (Taylor Swift)

• Qwitter- Ex-Girlfriend, or Don't Speak (No Doubt)

• Friendfeed- Message in a Bottle (Police)

• Digg- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)
  

• StumbleUpon- Can't Find My Way Home (Traffic)

• Reddit- Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty) or possibly You Know You're Wrong (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy)
  

• BlogCatalog- Given how many spammers there send me PMs claiming they've click the ads which I don't have, I'd like to suggest: Money for Nothin' (Dire Straits)
  

• YouTube- You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)

• Entrecard- Hello, Goodbye (Beatles)

• LinkedIn- Take this Job and Shove it (Johnny Paycheck)
  

Want to make an alternate suggestion? Or want to add another venue I didn't include here? Just give me a shout in the comments below.

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Maybe It's a New Game Show?

Okay, my friends. I want to know what you make of this one...

True story. I was returning from the drugstore, headed back to the office on Tuesday. I went to cross the street at the corner, where there is an apartment building. From the second floor apartment on the corner, from the ledge, there hung the following:

• A long black string
• With a clothespin at the end
• Holding several dollar bills

This was dangling over the street, but no one would have been tall enough to reach it. In other words, you could get to it, but you'd really need a ladder, to be a professsional basketball player with excellent hangtime, or you'd have to be Spiderman.

Yesterday, it was raining, so I didn't go out to see whether it was still there. Today, it was gone entirely.

Now-- my question to you all is....

WHY?

I've been mulling on this quite a bit myself-- y'know, in between zombie-proofing the house-- and I've come up with the following possible theories:

• It was an Idiot Enticement Snare and someone wants to hit it big with a YouTube video
• It was the world's worst wallet
• The renter in the corner apartment continually would leave the apartment without cash. This was supposed to be a time-saver.
• Someone got inspired by the song "Pennies from Heaven" but took into account for inflation
• Worried about robbers, the tenant decided to hide his cash in a place thieves would never ever look
  
• It's a new hit game show called "Jumping for Dollars"?

That's all I have. I'd love to hear suggestions. I'd mentioned before that the area in which I work is a bit like stepping into a Salvador Dali painting on any given day, except with fewer floating body parts. This money on string scheme is just another example of habitual surreality.

And, if I'm right about theory number one, and it ends up being a big YouTube video? I'll be the gal with the unnaturally red hair who walks by, glances up at the camera hidden in the clothespin, and raises an eyebrow... Then moves on...

Oh yes, moves on...
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