[flatline]

As someone who is older than the college age crowd, it seems pretty inane. I'm sick of political posts so would probably ignore those in someone else's feed. Having kids or dropping out of school to do a startup don't sound like crazy ideas to me, either. I actually think the idea is pretty funny, but the options are unimaginative, or perhaps I'm just too far distant from the target demographic.

[gailees]

We've had a pretty good response so far with our current options while at the same time being able to stay away from any profane, offensive, or really malicious content; however, we would love to have expanded options for other target demographics outside of college students.

Do you have any ideas for options that would be more well-targeted at your demographic?

We already personalize options to some of the user's basic fb info, but have yet to come up with buttons that we think other specific age groups would be more likely to use.

[flatline]

I probably don't have any real gems but generally, non-sequitur stuff that clearly wasn't an intentional post is the most funny, as it jumps out an makes you wonder what the hell is going on. Promotion of weird/bad products, i.e. spam. The 4chan FB hacks from that christian message board a couple years back were actually pretty funny, albeit juvenile and insulting. Maybe the heuristic would be that a good percentage of one's friends think you were hacked without you knowing about it, but nothing too shocking or harmful. Just my $.02, I did think it was a neat idea.

[mattberg]

Agree about the options. When I have "hacked" one of my friends Facebook accounts when they left their phone around, I definitely had different thoughts on what to write. And maybe that is where my disconnect is, I can't imagine wanting to write what I would put on someone else's account as a joke on my own account. The idea is much funnier to me when used on someone else's account (their original idea I guess).