Friday, April 9, 2010

Facebook Gets the South Park Treatment

You know you've achieved iconic pop culture status when you've been mentioned, or ripped apart, by the foul-mouthed kids on South Park.

Well, this week the creators of South Park finally got around to aiming their satirical sights on Facebook in their newest episode "You Have 0 Friends" that aired on Wednesday.



The mocking of the Internet's most popular social network was hilariously perfect, covering everything from stressing over Farmville to "poking" family members. They even squeezed in some references to ChatRoulette (which has upwards of 1 million visitors now) and Tron (which has sequel coming to theaters later this year).

So did the episode raise any groundbreaking issues about Facebook? Not really, in fact the only question is why they waiting so long to slam the website that's dominated our lives for years now.

Regardless, it was well worth the wait, because sometimes it's nice just to sit back and laugh at ourselves for our social media obsessions.