Tue 30 Nov 2010
Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Usher & Justin Timberlake commit Social Network Suicide
Posted by Mr.North under good for humanity , things I like , videos[19] Comments
At midnight (Wednesday, December 1st), many of your favorite celebrities will participate in the Digital Life Sacrifice campaign where they will disable their accounts on social networking sites like Twitter & Facebook. This is in support of Alicia Keys’ Keep a Child Alive foundation, where celebs such as Kim Kardashian, Diddy, Justin Timberlake, Serena Willians, Janelle Monae, Jay Sean, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Hudson and more will sign out of their respective social media platforms and not return until $1 Million is raised for World AIDS Day.
Above you can view one of many promos leading up to tomorrow.
November 30th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
I’m actually about to blog on this cuz well…..I’ll sum it up like this . Great Cause but a STUPID SELF RIGHTEOUS CONCEPT.
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waste Reply:
December 1st, 2010 at 9:29 am
I agree 100%. They act like them not signing into twitter is some sort of bold statement…lmao….these celebs dont have a clue do they?
How about they all donate 100,000 each? They say its not about money…..OH BUT IT IS, how much did this rubbish idea cost to put together?
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Alijah Green Reply:
December 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am
no stupid cause, if you want to cure the disease try not promoting all that promiscuous behavior,but better yet delete the account
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November 30th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Im all for charity but Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid? Raisin awareness by not tweeting? Why not tweet to raise awareness? Im sure they get that million bucks way quicker.
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December 1st, 2010 at 12:46 am
That’s one of my biggest issues. This is banking more off the public “need” to follow THEM vs. the public’s genuine compassion to donate.
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December 1st, 2010 at 3:30 am
It about about sacrificing ur life, ur wants, ur material needs for sum1 elses LIFE. Not jus giving money and ‘the “need” to follow THEM’. Its not THAT difficult to comprehend.
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SMH! Reply:
December 1st, 2010 at 3:35 am
and donating a millions bucks jus cuz u have it doesn’t mean anything. Its about the actual cause, getting ppl involved and spreading awareness.
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waste Reply:
December 1st, 2010 at 9:36 am
not signing into twitter? yea great way to spread awarness. why dont they use twitter to spread the word.someone who has no idea, is not gona become aware by checkin jay seans twitter for something thats not there. If u want to sacrifice material needs…money is the best place to start, i dont wana see a bunch of rich pricks playing dead, it does nothin for me.
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SMH! Reply:
December 1st, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Ummm,they are using twitter to spread the word!…Ur misinformed,they didnt DELETE their accounts. Actually, ppl WILL become more aware bcuz when they go checkin 4 these celebs twitters and see that they are “dead” they’ll ask themselves “Well, Why is Jean Sean dead” and then it trickles down….
“money is the best place to start”<U cant b serious?! :/ And it NOT suppose to do anything 4 U,its suppose to do sumthing for ppl with HIV/AIDS. U've lost touch with that. SMH #WOW #Thatisall
December 1st, 2010 at 7:28 am
What they all should do is say they’ll all match whatever is raised, god knows they all can do it instead of wasting time and money on these self promoting ads.
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December 1st, 2010 at 9:41 am
i wish this advert was real.
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December 1st, 2010 at 9:48 am
“I think we all sometimes turn a blind eye to things that might be depressing, too heavy,” Sean said. “But sometimes you need to be really shook up and poked and prodded to do something, because the way I believe is that every human needs another human being to get some life. … We need each other, and I feel like we should all help each other.”
Not to mention the fact that Keys’ concept of “killing” your cyber-self is brilliant.
“It’s genius, because [social media] is the new thing, the new age, and fans, they want complete access,” Sean said. “They want 100 percent of you 100 percent of the time. They want to know what you are doing now! They don’t want to wait and read it on a website; they want to know now!” he laughed, adding that while the “death” part is tongue-in-cheek, getting fans to bring their favorite celebs “back to life” is the perfect call to action. “I’m not coming back until you donate some money!” he said. “Sometimes you need a prod, and this is the perfect way of doing it.”
As part of the Buy Life promotion, the celebrities will urge fans to donate to the charity in order to buy back their online presence. Fans can text the first name of the celebrity they are mourning to 90999, and $10 will instantly be donated to the cause. Participants include Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Ryan Seacrest, Justin Timberlake, Diddy, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Khloé Kardashian, Swizz Beatz, Serena Williams, “The Buried Life” crew, Elijah Wood, Janelle Monáe, Kimberly Cole, David LaChapelle, Daphne Guinness and Bronson Pelletier.
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December 1st, 2010 at 12:44 pm
im unfollowing all celbs involved (was only following swizz and mrs swizz) its dumb and i dont need to follow them anyway, you dead? stay dead
ill donate though not cause you celbs asked but its the right thing to do
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December 1st, 2010 at 12:46 pm
I would donate a million of my own money to make sure these people DON’T come back.
I ‘killed’ my social networking accounts about a month ago, and you know, my life has been GREAT. I’ve literally done more ‘tweet-worthy’ things in this last 30 days than in the last year of me posting my every move.
Seriously, this self-serving publicity stunt just makes hese attention hound ‘celebrities’ look bad – not to mention cheap, when you think they could all probably triple that 1 million way faster if each of them just donated 10% of their annual earnings. Diddy could throw a million out the window and not miss it…. SMDH.
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December 1st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Pure propaganda
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December 1st, 2010 at 5:57 pm
The underlying message is that the general public “needs” these celebs in their lives more than they need us. So much so that general public will pay to see indirect digital messages from these celebs like hungry little puppies.
Better yet, They should just continue tweeting and just charge their followers a $1 per every tweet. It’s the same concept. SLAP!
The cause is good, yet the means is so pretentious and degrading.
I hope they realize there was life before Twitter and FB and if they were dead, life would go on without missing a beat…. it always does.
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Nightfall Reply:
December 1st, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Exactly
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December 1st, 2010 at 9:24 pm
U shouldnt need money 2cure aids.it should just be done..smh
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December 1st, 2010 at 10:58 pm
WOW just WOW @most of these comments
Geesh when did giving back and raising awareness become a bad thing.
LOVE the campaign and anybody who is giving back to the community in any way/shape/form or fashion.
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