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You Are Currently Watching: Gawker’s Webutante Ball, 2010
Posted In: All Videos, Social CommentaryComments: 30 Responses
I went to Gawker Media’s Webutante Ball last night, and it was fun! It wasn’t necessarily fun because of all the free drinks, or the bad dance music, or watching all the web-celebrity wannabes dance drunkenly to the bad music, which IS a lot of fun, but it was fun MAINLY because I got to ask Julia Allison and Gawker founder Nick Denton how the Internet has ruined their lives.
Boy, did THEY have different answers! So kiddies, there was a BIG BIG lesson to be learned at the Webutante Ball last night – if you use the Internet right, it is your friend. If you use it to be a web-celebrity and nothing else, you might just want to change your name and move.
NOTE: I really like Julia. I don’t really know any of her work, but she was totally sweet, and she is also friends with my girl Meghan Asha, so when I imply that she has used the Internet in a way that has ruined her life, I am only going on what she is, indeed, famous for: being famous for nothing. Honestly, she seemed just like a really sweet and pretty girl to me.
June 9th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
[..YouTube..] Does the internet have the capability to “ruin” lives? I think it’s more likely to state that certain people may “use” the internet in an attempt to ruin others. The internet itself is just a tool to connect people, or for some, a tool to disconnect one another.
June 9th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
[..YouTube..] when the second highly attractive woman started talking about the internet ruining her dating life… my head began hitting the keyboard. doh. doh. doh….
June 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
[..YouTube..] It can effect peoples lives negitively. However you have to balance the pros with the cons. Most of this is people suffering from the always on nature of tech but as is the internet probably best to switch off every now and again. Like i’ll be doing straight after this. Remeber that all good things can be a curse and moderation is best.Did you enjoy the Webutante Ball, Lori?
June 9th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
[..YouTube..] Great point! The internet is just an excuse for people to have for the problems in their lives. All the internet does is share information. Anyone who doesn’t want to share information about their lives should not try to advertise on the internet! Kudos to The Resident for pointing this out!
June 9th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
[..YouTube..] @natedogs212 Well, but what about people that got problems in their lives and couldn’t talk talk to anyone?Probably the “community” could help?Joe.P.S.: The Internet is much more than sharing information…
June 9th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
[..YouTube..] Ugh. Don’t give Gawker such attention.
June 9th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
[..YouTube..] the webutante ball is a faggit
June 9th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
[..YouTube..] Looking hot Lori, love the mole on your cheek!
June 9th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
[..YouTube..] Hello,Lori.Thank you for the live interviews. I was hoping there might be a recreation of your pole dance class video. But, I assume there was no pole there at the club.Pity.
June 9th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
[..YouTube..] Looking sharp Lori!
June 9th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
[..YouTube..] Note to self- common answer for the ladies…dating difficulties. How you doooin? =D
June 9th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
[..YouTube..] LOL…You’re so dedicated!
June 9th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
[..YouTube..] 1:40Never talk or trust a man that is compelled to show his chest hair.
June 9th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
[..YouTube..] the chick at 1:09 (julia) looks like a darker complected Famke Jenssen
June 9th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
[..YouTube..] @librano Imagine for a second you’re a hot girl; you’d think guys would be coming out the woodwork right? True..BUT here’s the kicker–they usually tend to be dudes that say/do stupid things just because you’re pretty. Or they are flat out crazy. That’s the dating life of ‘the hot girl’ as I understand it.
June 10th, 2010 at 3:28 am
[..YouTube..] Whoa is the host drunk? Yikes!
June 10th, 2010 at 5:40 am
[..YouTube..] you possibly took 10000 dollars from that guy?
thats bitchy
June 10th, 2010 at 10:36 am
[..YouTube..] Yeah, it’s always a good thing to know what information to put on the internet.
June 10th, 2010 at 11:11 am
[..YouTube..] The Internet helped me a lot, because I discovered that 9/11 was an inside job. But now the all-powerful Rockefeller family, which owns maybe 50 foundations and think tanks, they want to shut down the Internet, because there’s too much truth being revealed.
June 10th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
[..YouTube..] hey theresident, you look really hot in this video. Do you come here often?
June 10th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
[..YouTube..] Lori isn’t drunk. She’s just being her normal self, haha
June 12th, 2010 at 4:46 am
[..YouTube..] @CescBalboai’m her secretary,.,. yes she does,., lol jk jk
June 12th, 2010 at 4:49 am
[..YouTube..] @watevatubelol women don’t care sir,., the more we warn them,., the more they are motivated to do so,., fAcT
June 12th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
[..YouTube..] Stupid people ruin their OWN lives.
June 13th, 2010 at 12:35 am
[..YouTube..] HI LORI
June 13th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
My thoughts about the Internet. It’s the greatest tool ever, for fast and easy information access and communication exchange throughout the world.
It’s really a “Library of the World”, open 24/7. As a life long information “junkie”, I’ve been using it since 1995, two years after it’s public debut.
The Internet we all know so well, is really an offspring of what was known
as Apranet, first developed and used by the US military to link their network of computers, way back in 1969.
I believe the Internet has definitely been misused and abused and more than previous tools of communication, such as the good old telephone and postal mail. The Internet is very anonymous, impersonal and it’s difficult to track down and catch troublemakers. Slowly, this problem is getting better. Technology, neccesity and time, will eventually solve this lingering problem.
The Internet is sadly lacking in regulation, for reasons of personal privacy and security. It’s long been illegal to use a telephone or postal mail to threaten or harass, but not the Internet.
The Internet simply requires emotional maturity, knowing how to to use it’s existing privacy and security features and a lot of common sense, in order to best avoid trouble making people.
June 14th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
[..YouTube..] I’d like you to recommend books to read that are purely fictional story based. Just for the hell of it. The Internet is good for sharing and amplifying positives. But you already know that
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:43 am
[..YouTube..] do u have a hard time dating?
July 9th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Why do I want to go out for a Venti Mocha after watching this video?
Can you spell product placement?
LOL
August 31st, 2010 at 11:05 am
[..YouTube..] some girls just know how to be cute