'A Life On Facebook' Tells The Tale Of A Virtual Everyman (VIDEO)

Maxime Luère's "A Life On Facebook" tells the story of one Alex Droner, who joins Facebook and immediately starts to share his life with the world.

As the video progresses (in rapid-fire), we see Alex accumulating friends, wall posts and photos.

Through the window of his Facebook profile, we watch his life unfold before our eyes. Parties, mistakes, romance--all whiz by on the endless stream of Alex's Facebook wall.

We see his ups, his downs, his unfortunate over-shares. He even has a cyber-stalker, of sorts.

The tale reminds us of Google's "Parisian Love" Super Bowl ad, but a little darker.

View "A Life On Facebook" in the video below, then visit Maxime Luère's website (here).

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Comments

[bigmovieman]

04:26 PM on 11/15/2010

After he logged out it should have gone back to his profile with all of his friends saying stiff like:

"Miss you man"
"RIP"

Etc...

but maybe that would be too morbid. But it defiantly accurate.

[bigmovieman]

04:28 PM on 11/15/2010

got to love not proof-reading :P

[RepigsLuvOxycontin]

01:36 PM on 11/15/2010

Talk about the new world meeting the old world. It a much more fitting video for the song than the one Mick & band did.

[SmoothDaddyG]

08:59 AM on 11/15/2010

Facebook is only six years old.

[lilylee86]

10:15 PM on 11/14/2010

That is good..
WinPST Share Outlook.

[noway lv]

01:05 AM on 11/14/2010

Now if only I knew the name of the song to the video. And yes . . . I do know there's an app for that.

[born 2b different]

09:14 AM on 11/14/2010

Paint It Black / Rolling Stones

[faceturkey]

06:53 AM on 11/13/2010

You never get too old for Facebook, its more like you can never be too old to be so out of touch that you don't join Facebook. Regardless of age you anyone can be a victim of a cyber stalkers, I know I have, so I hope people like him will stop letting them get away with it by listing them online with http://www.faceturkey.com , http://www.faceturkey.net , http://www.tmsohbet.com

[Philosophy 101]

12:07 PM on 11/12/2010

Very good video, very accurate and thought provoking

[sparklinkx]

06:41 AM on 11/15/2010

I agree with what you said.

[goijra]

09:06 AM on 11/12/2010

Quite frankly I'd rather read a book, try a new recipe for dinner, spend some time with friends in the 'real' world, play with the cat, get some yard work done, go to the movies, watch my NY Mets frustrate the hell out of me , again. You know have a life.

[jgeurian21]

10:22 AM on 11/12/2010

You forgot to add leaving comments on HuffPo on a how pathetic people are that spend their time in the cyberworld.

[Lisa B]

12:14 PM on 11/12/2010

LOL!

[born 2b different]

09:15 AM on 11/14/2010

Nice One!

[Lisa B]

12:13 PM on 11/12/2010

I agree with your sentiment, but it is possible to do both - have a life and interact on the net. It's about balance.

[BonzaSheila]

11:27 AM on 11/13/2010

HuffPo Moderator alert: the above post is SPAM

[CyberBullyingReport]

02:24 AM on 11/12/2010

You never get too old for Facebook, its more like you can never be too old to be so out of touch that you don't join Facebook. Regardless of age you anyone can be a victim of a cyber stalkers, I know I have, so I hope people like him will stop letting them get away with it by listing them online with http://cyberbullyingreport.com

[Max Shaw]

03:40 PM on 11/12/2010

You never get too old for Facebook? Tell that to my mom...you know how annoying it is to get 'poked' by your mom several times a week?? The answer is 'very.'


..And yes, cyber-stalkers suck. Real life stalkers are worse.

[rmaenza]

12:15 AM on 11/12/2010

This is extreme, most Facebook users are not this obsessed with it. Also the age of the person sometimes determines the frequency of use. mainstreethost

[MyReality2011]

08:38 PM on 11/11/2010

Here's my question: don't you get too old for facebook at some point?

[LAMan4]

09:27 PM on 11/11/2010

I think "bored of Facebook" is more like it. We won't get too old for it because by that time it will have become something else or replaced by something new. Knowing the minutia of my friends' lives or of people I don't know well is not interesting to me. And man, do I NOT want to know what stores they're shopping in or what product they just bought...

[born 2b different]

08:35 AM on 11/12/2010

Too old to want to stay in touch with friends, and too share events in your life?

[ClassicLeft]

08:16 PM on 11/11/2010

Join Facebook and start writing your biography. (like)

[Bbswede]

07:44 PM on 11/11/2010

And in the end, this is all that facebook is; we are real people interacting as caricatures, characters, in our own lives, in dramatic fashion as if our lives had meaning.

We, as a culture, have lost our purpose on this internet. It has, in it's turn, superseded the collective cultural molding of the media reflection before it. At each stage, the lowest common denominator is exploited for commercial gain, and humanity is left with a reflection of itself that was driven by the morally decayed iteration before it. This hollow image of our selves then establishes the next iteration to be driven via the most easily manipulated vices available.

We live superficial, narcissistic, shadow existences in a post industrial nirvana of ignorant, vain, self indulgence. We are the pretentious and insecure children of material wealth and spiritual depravity.

[LAMan4]

09:22 PM on 11/11/2010

And we are over-educated a tad :-)

[JohnDewey]

04:37 PM on 11/14/2010

There's no such thing.

[exPatPatti]

09:23 PM on 11/11/2010

Yikes.

[Manuel Coichy]

07:07 PM on 11/11/2010

Life on one dimension.