Winnipeg Free Press - May 13th
HE was the brains behind Brody Jenner’s ill-fated Fox reality show The Princes of Malibu, he is the resident bad boy on MTV’s The Hills and now it looks as if Spencer Pratt is going to take on Jersey Shore head-on with his new TV venture, Fist Pumping 4 Love. On April 26, Pratt wrote “If The Hills was on for six seasons, then Jersey Shore will be on for a hundred seasons. I can’t believe I didn’t watch this show before.”
Fist Pumping features Snooki’s ex-boyfriend Emilio Masella — Pratt contacted Masella via Twitter about creating a new TV show and the rest is history. (Masella was unceremoniously dumped by the Jersey Shore star via voicemail after she felt that Masella was using their relationship to further his TV career. It looks now like she wasn’t too far off.)
The show will follow Masella on his quest across America in search of true love. “I want a real guidette who can speak Italian, so we are prepared to take my search from Hollywood, Calif., to the streets of Howard Beach in Queens, N.Y.,” Masella told People.com.
A short trailer has been posted to Fistpumping4love.com.
IN the past few years, Facebook has become the dominant social-networking platform and one of the central spots on the web to post photos, chat with friends and family and find out about events in your area. If you spend any time on the social-networking giant, the constant changes to how the site functions and the way that it shares your information can be extremely frustrating to keep up with. While Twitter has always been a publicly driven way to share information about yourself, Facebook took the opposite approach in the beginning and was more of a gated community in how they handled your info and privacy. As the site has grown, so has the way The Book operates. Through a series of small, yet significant changes, more and more of the personal information on your profile is now being shared.
For many users, the most recent changes were the final straw. While it is apparent to most users that Facebook still plays a huge role in online life, for many power-users the fact they are slowly losing control of their personal info is becoming more and more problematic.
While most users won’t go as far as deleting their account (which Facebook makes nearly impossible to do), more and more people are trimming down the info they put in their profiles as a way to counteract the recent changes to the site.
If you are on the fence about what you should do, Dan Yoder of Pop.is gives you 10 Reasons to Delete Facebook. From Facebook’s all-out war on privacy to the site’s recent bait-and-switch techniques, there are plenty of reasons to resurrect that old MySpace account or give Twitter a try.
“Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then they make it publicly available” explains Yoder. “Since they are in the business of monetizing information about you for advertising purposes, this amounts to tricking their users into giving advertisers information about themselves.”
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 13, 2010 E3
