Social Media at the movies

Online services such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are very popular these days and they are really huge even in traditional media because they influence many peoples everyday life. Normally we here at FilmTiki blog about how these services can help filmmakers to get their movies seen, but a more recent trend brings your favourite Social Media service to the movies now. So, more than ten years after You've got Mail, here are some more movies based on (recent) online services: Do you remember Geocaching? Geocaching is

a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices.

Those treasures and their locations are being shared online, so that anyone could locate and find them. A few weeks ago I came across the movie Splinterheads by director Brant Sersen. It's the story of Justin, a twenty-something slacker and Galaxy, a con artist, who takes Justin on a geocaching adventure. Obviously a fun idea for a script and probably a fantastic movie too. Here's the trailer:

Introducing the YouTube generation Another great movie is called Butterflies. It follows the lives of six young people that are prominent ‘weblebrities’ on the video site YouTube. Here's the trailer:

By the way, the whole movie can be watched for free now on - you guessed it - YouTube! Watch Butterflies on YouTube! Facebook Last but not least, there are two!!! movies coming up about Facebook: Probably in the end of 2010 The Social Network, directed by David Fincher, will hit the US screens, telling the story of Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg. According to Mashable and other sources, Jesse Eisenberg will be playing the main character, and Justin Timberlake will also star in the Facebook movie. Another film about the world's leading Social Network is an Italian production called Faceboom (originally: Feisbum). I found a press kit at this year's Berlinale EFM, it says:

Faceboom - an instant movie on the 'Facebook' generation. The adventures and misadventures of users of the social network: loves, cheats, disguises, chats, dreams and family relationships...

Unfortunatly there's only an Italian version of the trailer, but you'll get an idea of what the movie's all about:

What's next? It seems that there are heaps of ideas out there, as there are loads of online services. There is already a short film called Top 8: The MySpace killer, so, what's next? Anyone heard of 'Twitter: the movie' or 'How I bookmarked myself on delicious' or even 'FilmTiki - a success story'?