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## Video: The 'Awesome' Facebook Announcement and You: An Odd Todd Cartoon

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_Published 2011-07-12. Just how awesome was the announcement last week at Facebook headquarters? And what does it mean for you?_


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## Transcript

F , a, c, e, b, o, o, k. I'm good. F, a, c, e, b, o, o, [ SOUND ] no. [ SOUND ] No. [ SOUND ] No. [ SOUND ] What? Video chat on Facebook! Awesome! Awesome. Didn't you see the Facebook announcement last week? It made all the headlines. Yeah I saw the headlines. Haven't seen headlines that exciting since Microsoft announced the Zune was coming out in red! I got mine right here! Awesome! So not awesome. You don't think this is awesome? You can see my cat. His name is Mr. McMitten. Sometimes I call him Pudding. Yeah video chat really groundbreaking stuff. What? Not as groundbreaking as it was in 1936.

Back then the German post office had video conferencing set up for. Yeah, even back then it was probably just dudes flashing their wiener schnitzels. Also back in the 60s AT & T set up video booths in places like Times Square. Cost $ 16 for a three minute call. Great. Congrats to AT & T for their decades of failure with video phone. Way to go. Seriously, last time I got excited about video chatting was when Max Headroom came out. Max Headroom's gay? No. Came out, like, came out on TV, came out. I hate video chat. I can't believe you don't think this is cool. Well, I didn't use video chat when AOL did it, and I didn't use it when Myspace did it.

Give me one reason why this is so cool. You can see my cat. His name is Mr. McMittons. So tell him I'm calling to him. Ca, ca, ca, came out.

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