A Crazy New App

Have you heard about the new app that allows girls to "rate a guy" on their hook up abilities? Its called Lulu, and it works just like movie reviews but instead girls are rating and giving their opinions on hook-ups or dates with a guy.  Using Facebook, Lulu creates a profile of different guys that a girl knows and allows her to leave feedback and rate their performance. 

According to the makers of Lulu, "We see Lulu as a private network dedicated to women and relationships, providing an online extension and enhancement of the kind of information and support that women provide each other in real life.”

To me, this sounds like a great platform for girls to seek vengence and anonymously bash guys. I'm sure an upset, hurt, and heartbroken ex-girlfriend would love to destroy her ex's reputation and sabotage any future relationships he may have with another girl. But Lulu claims that it is not a "trash-talking" forum and they have a system in place to ensure that. 

I'm pretty sure if the shoe were on the other foot, and girls were being rated by guys, it would be totally unacceptable. Girls across the country would strongly voice their opposition to the app. 

Think about the damage that could be done to a guy's professional career? How would you like a potential employer to google you and stumble upon your scores and anonymous reviews of many of your previous female encounters that may or may not even be true?

So for all you guys out there, be careful not to get on the bad side of any girls any time soon!

Super Bowl Money Makers

I'm slightly ashamed to say that the actual football part of the Super Bowl is the least important part to me. This is in large part because I am much more of a college football fan and because I have no tie to either the San Francisco 49ers or the Baltimore Ravens. But the one thing everyone loves during the Super Bowl are commercials. This year's Super Bowl commercials went up an about $300,000 from 2012's game. CBS is charged $3.8 million to $4 million for a 30-second commercial during Sunday’s Ravens vs. 49ers game. Despite the millions spent, only severe commercials jumped out at me.
Here's a list of my top four favorite commercials:

4. Dodge Rams "To the farmer in all of us": What a great commercial for the American Farmers who are the backbones of this country. It gave a unique perspective of what farmers really are and left me with a feeling of true appreciation for all the current and past farmers of America (including my own father)

3. MONTANA STAIN: Tide did a great job with using the football theme with a clever and funny twist at the end

2. Taco Bell Live Mas: With each commercial, it was fun for our house to try and guess who the commercial was advertising for and no one guessed this once. It started with a bunch of elderly people gearing up for a "night out" and ending the crazy night with Taco Bell before returning to their nursing homes. Taco Bell has done a great job recently of target marketing to hispanics who are the quickest growing segment and this is another commercial that is targeted towards hispanics, singing the"We are young" song in Spanish. However, this  is also a mainstream commercial at the same time

1. Budweiser Baby Horse: Budweiser takes the the cake with yet another great horse commercial. Everyone in the house collectively said, "Awwww" when the man was reunited with his Clydesdale. Fleetwood Mac was the perfect touch

Twitter brings to light

Americans are known to be crazy about sports, especially football. Therefore, it  should come as no surprise that on January 7th, 2013, most Americans were gathered around their flat-screen TVs watching Alabama destroy Notre Dame at the BCS National Championship football game. It's also no surprise that Twitter was blown up that night by millions tweeting about the game, and for weeks following, about the game's outcome, and scandals of the game. 

One such scandal, was Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend. During the game, the sad story of the linebacker from Notre Dame was told:  Manti Te'o had lost both his grandmother and girlfriend within 24 hours of each other. It turned out that the girlfriend in the sad story was nothing more than a hoax! My Twitter feed skyrocketed with tweeters giving their opinions and taking their stabs at Manti Te'o, and quickly filled with stories from ESPN and USA Today on the scandal. 

But I noticed a different "scandal" that arose on twitter that night and over the next few days between Alabama's quarterback, AJ McCarron, and UGA's quarterback, Aaron Murray. During the game, AJ McCarron's girlfriend was shown several times, and the commentators made many comments on her good looks. Brent Musberger, one of the commentators, took more than enough time gaulking over her and recommended that "little boys in Alabama start throwing a football with pop" so that they can get a pretty girl like her.  His girlfriend, Katherine Webb, just happens to be Miss Alabama, and actually isn't even an Alabama fan, but an Auburn fan! In the middle of the game, UGA's quarterback tweets:

This one tweet got 10,499 retweets and 4,264 favorites, as well as many replies.

Just moments after that tweet, this pops up on twitter :

One of the many replies to Aaron's tweet was by AJ McCarron himself  shortly after he won his second title and Alabama's 15th title overall.

Ouch. But, hey, he had it coming. As you can see, AJ McCarron's tweet had 8,239 retweets and 5,348 favorites.

In the end, ESPN's commentator, Brent Musberger received so much criticism for his comments on Katherine that he was forced to issue a public apology.  AJ McCarron was followed by Donald Trump, and Katherine Webb now has almost twice as many followers as her superstar boyfriend, and more than three times as many as Aaron Murray.

Twitter brings to light the news, scandals, and controversy in a matter of seconds for the whole world to follow.  Not much gets thrown over the rug with Twitter and even the smallest of things can be blown out of proportion. For some its great publicity, but others are not so fortunate; just ask Manti Te'o