Steven Spielberg preparing to launch new social network

[Miah]

Hollywood super producer Steven Spielberg is preparing to launch a new social network, we’ve heard from multiple sources. The focus will be on users who’ve had or who are interested in sharing paranormal and extraterrestrial experiences. The new social network may also have original video content investigating alleged ghost and UFO stories.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/03/steven-spielbergs-ghost-town/

I hope it doesn't become another ATS full of poo.

 

[Tony2013]

Sometimes from poo, beautiful flowers grow. We shall have to see if it is really additive or just a duplication of what is already on the net. I'm a skeptical old coot. I always think "Where's the money angle in this?" Like Disney (which a few years ago sponsered pro ufo documentaries simply as a segue to advertize their new ufo ride at DisneyWorld), I wonder if this is leading to another Spielberg movie, or if he is truly doing something ultruistic.

I remember back in the 80's, I lived in San Francisco, and took the city subway to work in the financial district. I marvelled at the huge posters that showed a handsome human in front of a disk, saying "We are your friends!" The posters were made to seem serious, but I wondered who was sponsering them. Then a week later, the poster had changed. It was the same poster, but it had a "V" seemingly spray painted over it. Only later did I learn that all this was a marketing campaign in large cities for the TV mini-series "V" about lizards in human form who come to Earth as friends, but really just want to steal our water. The mini-series was pretty cheesy, as I recall.

We will see what Spielberg has in mind, won't we?

Who knows what the true intentions are of anyone starting this sort of thing, especially a high-powered, Hollywood director. Sure the guys made some respectable stuff having to do with UFOs and extraterrestrials (ET, Close Encounters, Taken...), but I find myself asking the same question you're asking as well... "Where's the money angle?" On one hand he's probably got more money than Canada, but then he doesn't have all that money for nothing does he?

We'll wait and see. I suppose if it generates interest it can only be a good thing, but the push to make everything a commodity these days is so freaking rampant you can't keep anything clean.

And yes I hate corporations; so should everyone

 

[mike]

i think Mr Speilberg has always treated the subject with dignity and imaginative insight.
the way i see it his movies dont hurt the feild.
if we really are alone then they are just good entertainment, but if contact is made then i think hes done his bit to prepare the planet mentally for the event.

when i was 5 years old i remember getting into a massive argument with my nanna's freind from church about the existance of aliens. it ended up devolving into a fight amoungst the grown ups, because she ended up spouting the that sort of thinking will see you burn in hell line to my insistance that it was at least possible they exist.
i still remember nanna secretly admitting to me later that she thought they did too, despite being a devout church goer.
later i would be sent to the school principle for daring to express a similar sentiment in class.

these days no one bats an eye if a kid thinks aliens could exist

the reaction of my nannas church freind 40 years ago was borderline hysterical in response to the suggestion from a 5 year old that aliens might exist, goodness only knows what her reaction to a mother ship over the city would have been.
and she was so very typical of the prevailing mindset of the time.

i think Mr Speilbergs movies have at the least created a more "grown up" public view of the subject