"Remember five days ago when no one had Facebook and you didn't acknowledge what the guy you took high school biology with was having for lunch?" Jimmy Kimmel asked the interview on his show last night. "Remember how that was fine? Let's go backwards to that."
If you didn't watch "Jimmy Kimmel Live" November 11, you might think Kimmel started a movement to end Facebook, but he's not.
Instead, he proclaimed a new national holiday called "National Unfriend Day," where he encourages you to "cut out some of the friend fat in your living" on Facebook and otherwise.
Today, November 17, Kimmel wants you to appear at all of your Facebook friends and decide: who isreallyyour friend? A friend, as he says, is not somebody who "asks what 'Harry Potter' character you are."
See two Video Presentations (watch one after another as they are logically connected):
National UnFriend Day
National UnFriend Day (part 2)
On his show yesterday evening, Kimmel celebrated the comer of National Unfriend Day with its very ownanthem sung by area artists Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker.
To all the friends I've un'ed before
Who sent me quizzes about Jersey Shore
You made my living a hell
With your stupid LOL
To all the friends I've un'ed before
To all the guys from grammar school
Posting shirtless pictures by their pool
Your fat and sweaty back
Really makes me desire to yak
To all the friends I've un'ed before
Our time on earth goes by so quickly
We get to draw each moment great
So I cannot waste one more minute
Reading your dumb status update
Kimmel may cause a point, but this rather funny joke of a holiday seems to be more a late night comedy sketch than an event manufactured out of substantial interest for the position of friendship.
Still, National UnFriend Day is good natured - at least for those not being unfriended - and you might still consider taking the day to cut some friend fat of our own.
Facebook had no immediate comment on how the festivities were being marked at party headquarters. Needless to say, Zuckerberg is not probably to be adding Kimmel to his friends list anytime soon.
Sources and Additional Information:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/national-unfriend-day-jim_n_778742.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/11/national.unfriend.day.mashable/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20023121-501465.html
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/11/08/jimmy-kimmel-national-unfriend-day/
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