Social Media Today: Facebook Quitters Quit Quitting, Popular Mechanics Shows You Do Have to be Pretty to be Popular, “Pilgrim” Trailer Debuts on Facebook

• Jun 1st, 2010
• Posted by Ron Schott
• Posted in Facebook, iPad, Magazines, Michael Cera, Social Media, Social Media News

It’s a new month and for some the coming of June means the arrival of summer. Here in the PNW, we know that our summer won’t really start until about July, but we’re a bit hopeful we may get some sun soon. Here are the stories we’re looking at today to keep our minds off our vitamin D deficiencies:

Facebook Quitters Count to Three, Only a Few Jump Ship

If you saw Mashable’s poll the other day asking if people really truly were going to ditch their Facebook accounts, you’d know the movement wasn’t really gaining much steam.

34,000 people actually committed to quitting Facebook the other day, but how many (if any) actually did remains a mystery. Will it be like people who say they supported Barack Obama, but didn’t actually vote for him?

Say those 34,000 people did actually quit, that’d be what, 0.0085 percent? Way to stick it to the man.

Popular Mechanics iPad Application Struts Its Stuff

While many have been touting the magazine experience on the iPad, there haven’t been that many great looking examples out there (until WIRED, which I’ll actually review here on the blog tomorrow). Then, Popular Mechanics unveiled their application and BAM… everything’s different.

Without going too deep, let me say that the full experience of magazines on the iPad is incredible. There, that’s all you get for now.

Check out Gizmodo’s piece on the latest PM for iPad.

“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” Debuts Trailer on Facebook

Movie previews aren’t just for making you hate going to the movies, they’re also for Facebook. The new film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World trailer actually debuted on Facebook recently, bringing the social networking platform to a new level of cool – Michael Cera cool.

It’s still yet to be seen if the movie follows the Michael Cera movie formula… I’m guessing it does.