{"id":2874,"date":"2015-05-07T15:38:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2019-03-28T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:01:39","slug":"unfriended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/unfriended.html","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Horror- Unfriended"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>&#8216;Revenge comes online&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Who knew Skype could be so creepy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laura Barnes was your average american teenage girl, until a video posted of her online ended her life. Unfriended is Universal Pictures latest film, described as &#8216;Ushering in a new era of horror&#8217;. A story unfolds as a group of 6 friends receive Skype and Facebook messages from\u00a0&#8216;billie227&#8217;\u00a0on the anniversary of their classmate&#8217;s suicide, leading them into a night of terror.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unfriended Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Horror Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQfjW0DLDr0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"imdbRatingPlugin\" data-user=\"ur60249508\" data-title=\"tt3713166\" data-style=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3713166\/?ref_=plg_rt_1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/images\/imdb_46x22.png\" alt=\" Cybernatural (2014) on IMDb\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d,s,id){var js,stags=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id)){return;}js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"http:\/\/g-ec2.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/imdb\/plugins\/rating\/js\/rating.min.js\";stags.parentNode.insertBefore(js,stags);})(document,'script','imdb-rating-api');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>What makes Unfriended so different?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>&#8216;A\u00a0Blair Witch for the broadband era&#8217; -The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The whole of Unfriended is shown from a computer screen. You literally spend the whole hour and 22 minutes of the film watching a desktop as if you were\u00a0protagonist Blaire, monitoring her computer activity and nosing in on what she&#8217;s up to. Staring at\u00a0a computer screen on the big screen may sound kinda boring at first, but it&#8217;s actually quite engaging. Seeing what messages she sends and receives, even before things start getting creepy, really taps into that <em>nosey side<\/em> we all have..and trust me when I say that things only get more interesting as the film goes on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tumblr_nnuc0gx3Sl1ut82yvo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_nnuc0gx3Sl1ut82yvo1_500\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Hands up guys, who&#8217;s doing this?&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Social Media is everywhere<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For me, Unfriended was an insight into how big social media really is. The film was made on an estimated budget of $1million,\u00a0and\u00a0brought in\u00a0$15,845,115 on opening weekend in the US alone. Not bad right? But for such a low budget film without an all-star cast, what was it about Unfriended that drove so much attention? Personally, I think it was the references to and theme of social media platforms. One of the things that makes horror films so scary is our ability to relate to the scenes in them and make them seem that little bit more real, like what we are seeing could actually happen to us. We pretty much all use Facebook and at least own a Skype account, don&#8217;t we? And hey, Unfriend was the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2009\/11\/unfriend\/\">Oxford word of the year <\/a>in 2009! Just don&#8217;t accept any friend requests from Laura Barnes..<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>How did the internet react?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The internet actually went a bit crazy for the Unfriended before it was even released. Being on a low budget, the Unfriended promo team cleverly used social media to promote the film, seeing as social media is the place where the film takes place.\u00a0Across social media platforms\u00a0(YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), Unfriended engaged up to 44 Million people.<a href=\"http:\/\/relishmix.com\/\"> RelishMix<\/a>, who track social media stats claim that \u00a0Unfriended content landed 32M YouTube views including parodies and reviews. In addition to this, the Unfriended instagram account has 24k followers, and let&#8217;s not\u00a0forget their Twitter account with a following of 51.7k people..<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">literally me after unfriended goodbye friends :) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/zzRFc6RCK1\">pic.twitter.com\/zzRFc6RCK1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 gossip girl (@brittstagram_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brittstagram_\/status\/589598653507117057\">April 19, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nunfriended got us wanting to never use technology or sleep again :-) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaiserballer13\">@kaiserballer13<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexWigginton16\">@AlexWigginton16<\/a> \u2014 Taylor Minnick (@t_minnick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/t_minnick\/status\/589288885080956929\">April 18, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Never again. Thanks Unfriended :-) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/U6zjqZvYlv\">pic.twitter.com\/U6zjqZvYlv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 m a d i c a r l e e (@MadisonCarlee24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadisonCarlee24\/status\/589269357529796608\">April 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nI&#8217;m not sure if Unfriended was really good or really bad. What I am sure of is that you will never catch me skyping :-) \u2014 Madisyn (@MadisynMac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadisynMac\/status\/589260963456622592\">April 18, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fair to say, people were pretty freaked out. Looks like Skype may have lost a lot of users since the release of the film..<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>So, when are we gonna get a movie about SEO and PPC?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/anigif_enhanced-buzz-32125-1367586556-5.gif\" alt=\"anigif_enhanced-buzz-32125-1367586556-5\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;The most un-terrifying horror ever. 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