I mentioned so on the actual YouTube page and 2 people have already told me I’m wrong! So I had to explain…I came on here to see if anyone else noticed! Thank God I’m not alone…Was starting to feel as though I am surrounded by idiocy.
Of course it’s fake. I don’t know how you would actually be able to videotape a real conversation like this, unless you were stalking somebody. Authenticity is not the point!
cute, but to bad it is obviously faked (outside of the fact that most people are not likely to be recording their screens).
still, rather priceless. i dont do that often, but when i do…… XD
I know that the internet is a confusing place filled with anonymous and unknown sources, however….
Not everyone is trying to trick you. Think less “photo-shopped” and more “artistic license”. It was a cute little film with a powerful little message, that’s all it’s trying to be.
It isn’t just text conversations that are like that. People never say exactly what they’re thinking at all times. If they did it’d end badly.
There are some things that should be kept to ourselves, but people have gotten into the habbit of being afraid of rejection, so they don’t put themselves out there so they don’t get rejected.
James didn’t write “oh hey james” – JANE wrote “oh hey james” TO James in Facebook chat. The window says “James” because that is who Jane is talking to. Log into Facebook and open up a chat window.
Cant help but laugh at the “you won’t regret it” bit. I’ve just got the image of thousands of Failbook browsing nerds getting rejected by the girl they like in high school.
Oh come on. It’s not saying to go and ask the girl (or guy) out right now. It’s just saying to be a little more open with how you feel. Actually sharing bits of your life with someone is so much more worth it than this sad little so-called conversation.
I’ll concede that you might regret asking a girl out and getting rejected. But you won’t regret getting in the habit of making things clear with other people. Yes, you’ll get hurt. But people aren’t perfect and getting hurt is part of life. The relationships that do work out (friendly or romantic) will be worth it.
James is typing on the right side. He is speaking to Jane, who is typing on the left side. Naturally he has Jane’s picture and name on his screen. You are looking at it as if when you type to someone, you are starring at your own picture and name, which is not the case.
Actually, on most chat programs, including Facebook chat, the name of the person you’re talking to appears in the header of the chat box, as well as their profile picture. What Jane is typing is on the left, and James is on the right.
It seemed a bit off.. what James said came up under “Jane”? And when they typed in the Jane box, the James box had the “busy writing” icon… still, pretty cute! ^^
We all know this happens – logically, I mean. It’s sort of obvious, of course. Something I’ve wanted to change – I want to be able to speak my mind instead of second guessing every word I write. Seeing it happen in this manner, though, somehow made it a more solid concept. Strange what a simple video can do sometimes.
I do not believe this to be true. Both James and Jane appear to have the same thoughts, misspellings, and reverted the same thoughts at the same time. Hmm, they both recorded the video too and then stapled it together in this nice video? I find that impossibly hard to believe.
Mythbuster’s have proved this myth to be a fail, even for failbook.
…………………..Okay guys, stop saying “It’s so obviously faked” already. It’s not supposed to be real, it’s just demonstrating what often does happen on facebook chat.
Seriously? Sometimes you have to actually read/watch to get what it wants you to get. This isn’t about real or fake. It’s about getting the message across. Which obviously, most of you didn’t.
This comments page got a lot more fail than the actual.
hmm… correct me if im wrong but i have to call “FAKE AND GAY” cuz how did the person see both sides of the convo i think that this person just wanted attention on a popular website
Alrighty then, first of all I’d like to say THIS WAS SET UP. Yes, yes it is fake. It was done that way on purpose. It’s not an actual conversation, they’re trying to make a point. The point is that the two people like each other, and want to tell the other how they feel, but they get scared and just say something plain and uncaring instead.
Second, Jane is typing in the box to the left, James is typing on the right. It doesn’t show your own name, it shows the name of whoever you’re talking to.
It isn’t. When you chat with someone on Facebook, THEIR name shows up at the top and bottom of the window. Therefore, the chat window on the left that says “James” is on “Jane’s” computer and visa versa.
I always try my best to be honest. There are ways to express what you’re thinking without completely embarrassing yourself, but it’s a skill the two people in this video lack. I just can’t relate. It’s not that hard to tell a friend you’re interested in them, I’ve done it. If you get rejected then you get rejected; I hate “games” like “let’s guess what the other person is thinking,” ugh.
LIES! I told the Girl i love how i felt about her, but she told her best friends, and one of them is my current GF and it turns out that the other friend AND the girl i love’s sister likes me too, and long story short we had a threesome.. But it was WITHOUT the Girl i love, and WITHOUT my current GF, and now she broke up with me and the girl i love thinks i’m a manhoe. FML.
You could just read the…Oh never mind you’re obviously too lazy.
It’s trying to show how teenagers that like each other usually talk on Facebook chat, deleting how they really feel and sending some bland “that’s cool” comments. This video was made from the point of view of a girl and a guy that obviously like each other, and you can tell from the comments they’re deleting, but they both delete the comments that say how they really feel, and just send stuff like “so what’s up” and “cool”
Sweet jumpin’ Jeebus, NO! You NEVER tell someone else how you feel about them. Lesson for the kids: ALWAYS keep your emotions guarded. Reason being, 99.99% of everyone else couldn’t give a rat’s ass about your feelings. The more you try to share them, the more you’ll become convinced that the way you feel doesn’t matter, because that’s what you’ll be told, by either the other’s ambivalence, apathy, hostility or derision of your feelings.
The slow awkward dance performed in the above video exists for a reason. It gets performed a million times a day world wide because the human is a social animal that hates every other human, except those that don’t hate it. And the only way to determine who doesn’t hate you is through these sorts of veeeery oblique exchanges. If you’re lucky, you’ll find someone who can stand to be around you for more than five minutes.
*tries to hug you*
*you pull away in anger*
*tries to hug you again*
*you hug back and silently and secretly start crying*
*pats you on the back and says it’s okay*
Most people have the attention span of goldfish, and the reading skills of a turtle. If they haven’t figured out it was supposed to be a film, and not a real life activity, you can’t help them. Pity their parents.. or pity them for their parents, and move on.
You know what the biggest fail about this video is? Both of these ‘people’ are talking to themselves.. didn’t you notice Jane/Me came up in Jane Smith’s chatbox and James/Me came up in James Kurtroth’s chatbox?
Am I the only one that notice that they messed up the names big time in the chat. When James typed something he showed up as me on his chat(which is correct) but showed up as Jane in jane’s chat. Then Jane’s comments showed up under the name james in james’s chat. I like the idea for the video but I hate when people mess up small details and that bugged me the whole video.
I thought this was pretty cute.
The text and who was typing kind of messed with my mind. It seemed a bit off.
Still cute though.
I thought so too. It’s sweet.
I love you!!!!
The cursor moving left to right and back really gave away someone typing all that.
“Self Expression: Try it” or “Reading between the lines: Do it”
Both work out pretty well ^^
Makes me wonder how many of the ladies are too overwhelmed by my glory to tell me how they feel :\
Which is very many I’m sure .
Well, if I can be honest, I love you. I’ve just been too overwhelmed by your glory to tell you before.
By overwhelmed by your glory you mean…?
yes. his glory. or as he calls it, his ‘superclub’.
LOL! i love it xD
cute but sad, sad but true ;(
i just told a co-worker that they were a lazy, unproductive, arrogant, incompetant and selfish waste organs… felt good.
LOL
lol
I’m sure he appreciated your honest, straightforward way of going about your stuff! Keep up the good work!
Incompetent*
You are an example to us all.
gj!
… am i the only one who doesn’t get it?
No…
“They” both keep erasing the stuff they write that’s what they really mean, just to keep the tone nonchalant. Read what they erase.
Does anyone notice that the windows are backwards. That James is talking to James and Jane is talking to Jane? A Fail in a Fail!
I thought so too…but no…..It says who you’re talking to in the upper left corner of the chat window
Ever used Facebook?
I mentioned so on the actual YouTube page and 2 people have already told me I’m wrong! So I had to explain…I came on here to see if anyone else noticed! Thank God I’m not alone…Was starting to feel as though I am surrounded by idiocy.
No wait. I’m the idiot. Duh. Lmfao.
This is amazing! And the timing is awesome, because I have a first date tonight, so maybe this will give me some confidence
)
going to kill it here but the vid is fake
WHAAAAAT?!
No. Way. O:
Never woulda guessed…
Of course it’s fake. I don’t know how you would actually be able to videotape a real conversation like this, unless you were stalking somebody. Authenticity is not the point!
What?? Fake, you say?!? Duh. *facepalm* Thanks for sharing!
That was awesome. Shame man, so cute. I can totally relate. I’ve done that.
I think we’ve all been there whether it be via Facebook chat or some other IM service. Cute video though.
Yeah, definitely. Sad, but true.
Could you have shown me this like a month or 2 ago?
I feel sorry for you man but… LOL
lol at you wont regret it tho. fo’ shizz
cute, but to bad it is obviously faked (outside of the fact that most people are not likely to be recording their screens).
still, rather priceless. i dont do that often, but when i do…… XD
Is it trying to pass itself off as a real conversation? No! It’s a movie that was created to prove a point.
I know that the internet is a confusing place filled with anonymous and unknown sources, however….
Not everyone is trying to trick you. Think less “photo-shopped” and more “artistic license”. It was a cute little film with a powerful little message, that’s all it’s trying to be.
This nicely demonstrates why text conversations are so pointlessly banal, I think. Very cute.
It isn’t just text conversations that are like that. People never say exactly what they’re thinking at all times. If they did it’d end badly.
There are some things that should be kept to ourselves, but people have gotten into the habbit of being afraid of rejection, so they don’t put themselves out there so they don’t get rejected.
totally great <3 thanks!
Whoever made this up messed up in the very beginning. They typed “hey james” and backspaced but it was directed at Jane. More like hey Lames.
No… Have you ever used facebook chat? It says the other person’s name, so that you know who you are talking to.
Too true, but how come when Jane sent a message, it came up in James’s screen as being from James??
did anyone notice at the beginning james wrote “oh hey james” but anyway great vid sucks that, that happened though but i can relate
James didn’t write “oh hey james” – JANE wrote “oh hey james” TO James in Facebook chat. The window says “James” because that is who Jane is talking to. Log into Facebook and open up a chat window.
Cant help but laugh at the “you won’t regret it” bit. I’ve just got the image of thousands of Failbook browsing nerds getting rejected by the girl they like in high school.
I /guarantee/ you’ll regret it.
i agree 100%
Oh come on. It’s not saying to go and ask the girl (or guy) out right now. It’s just saying to be a little more open with how you feel. Actually sharing bits of your life with someone is so much more worth it than this sad little so-called conversation.
I’ll concede that you might regret asking a girl out and getting rejected. But you won’t regret getting in the habit of making things clear with other people. Yes, you’ll get hurt. But people aren’t perfect and getting hurt is part of life. The relationships that do work out (friendly or romantic) will be worth it.
That was so funny
I’m surprised FB chat didn’t crash in the middle of that..
This made me laugh….
cdrt?
(Chat died, repeat that?)
They mess up right at the beginning and have james type “oh hey james”
stupid.
James is typing on the right side. He is speaking to Jane, who is typing on the left side. Naturally he has Jane’s picture and name on his screen. You are looking at it as if when you type to someone, you are starring at your own picture and name, which is not the case.
Yeah that messed me up for the rest of it..
Actually, on most chat programs, including Facebook chat, the name of the person you’re talking to appears in the header of the chat box, as well as their profile picture. What Jane is typing is on the left, and James is on the right.
yes i will regret it
This was stupid.
It seemed a bit off.. what James said came up under “Jane”? And when they typed in the Jane box, the James box had the “busy writing” icon… still, pretty cute! ^^
*facepalm*
I forgot how Facebook chat works… the person you’re *talking* to is listed at the top & bottom! XD
….a guy talking to himself?….hmmmmm…i dont think its cute or funny…i think is kinda…WEIRD….
I agree. I quit watching after about 30 seconds.
you all are stupid. it’s who you’re TALKING TO that’s shown, not who you are
This takes me back to high school when everyone I knew was on AOL and we’d have these exact conversations on AIM.
We all know this happens – logically, I mean. It’s sort of obvious, of course. Something I’ve wanted to change – I want to be able to speak my mind instead of second guessing every word I write. Seeing it happen in this manner, though, somehow made it a more solid concept. Strange what a simple video can do sometimes.
It really works. It’s how I got my husband. We had emailing eachother for weeks and I just mailed him that I loved him. We’re happily maried now
I probably would regret telling someone how I feel…may end up in prison..
Too long, didn’t watch.
I’m sorry you have the attention span of a Goldfish.
Actually, goldfish have a relatively high attention span, and can even be trained.
I do not believe this to be true. Both James and Jane appear to have the same thoughts, misspellings, and reverted the same thoughts at the same time. Hmm, they both recorded the video too and then stapled it together in this nice video? I find that impossibly hard to believe.
Mythbuster’s have proved this myth to be a fail, even for failbook.
asif you actually believed that it was real. You fail.
BWAHAHAHA!! YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS REAL?!! Wow. No sense of humor AT ALL.
*facepalm x9000*
…………………..Okay guys, stop saying “It’s so obviously faked” already. It’s not supposed to be real, it’s just demonstrating what often does happen on facebook chat.
^ this
THANK YOU.
“You wont regret it”?
I see regret on this page daily.
That’s why it’s “FAILbook”.
fake and gay
Oh, you guys are sooo clever! Now I have to get my nose reset, and deal with this stupid restraining order. fml
And that is why you don’t use pickup lines from Family Guy.
I’m no high school administrator, but there’s an extension program going on in my trousers.
*nose-breaking punch*
*restraining order*
I rest my case.
I think this is supposed to be cute/convey a message, not be real.
Seriously? Sometimes you have to actually read/watch to get what it wants you to get. This isn’t about real or fake. It’s about getting the message across. Which obviously, most of you didn’t.
This comments page got a lot more fail than the actual.
i did, and i do regret it, the person i told my feelings to dont feel it back…
*plays worlds saddest song on the worlds tiniest violin*
Well, now you know and you can move on.
That was painful to watch and now I regret staying till the end.
hmm… correct me if im wrong but i have to call “FAKE AND GAY” cuz how did the person see both sides of the convo i think that this person just wanted attention on a popular website
plus if you look it says for jane “me”&”jane” for james it says “me”&”james” so yea im calling fake and gay
Alrighty then, first of all I’d like to say THIS WAS SET UP. Yes, yes it is fake. It was done that way on purpose. It’s not an actual conversation, they’re trying to make a point. The point is that the two people like each other, and want to tell the other how they feel, but they get scared and just say something plain and uncaring instead.
Second, Jane is typing in the box to the left, James is typing on the right. It doesn’t show your own name, it shows the name of whoever you’re talking to.
it’s not supposed to be real, dumbass.
HURRRRRRRRRRRR
Duh
:/
err, it’s totally real.
I’m going to call “Win” on that one.
So did anyone else notice when they start typing, that in each window it says their own names and not the other person’s names?
Like when “James” was typing it showed up as “Me” and yet in the same window the other person was listed at “James” when it’s supposed to be Jane?
(I know this isn’t real, but it looks wrong)
It isn’t. When you chat with someone on Facebook, THEIR name shows up at the top and bottom of the window. Therefore, the chat window on the left that says “James” is on “Jane’s” computer and visa versa.
hahaa story of my life. I’d tell Luke i love him, but apparently he’s too over me to care. his loss.
I LOVE YOU!!!
I wish a girl could love me
I love you Scott.
Whahaha especially on chat i’m more open…
Am I the only one who can’t relate to this at all?
So you’ve never had any unspoken feelings for anyone ever?
I always try my best to be honest. There are ways to express what you’re thinking without completely embarrassing yourself, but it’s a skill the two people in this video lack. I just can’t relate. It’s not that hard to tell a friend you’re interested in them, I’ve done it. If you get rejected then you get rejected; I hate “games” like “let’s guess what the other person is thinking,” ugh.
LIES! I told the Girl i love how i felt about her, but she told her best friends, and one of them is my current GF and it turns out that the other friend AND the girl i love’s sister likes me too, and long story short we had a threesome.. But it was WITHOUT the Girl i love, and WITHOUT my current GF, and now she broke up with me and the girl i love thinks i’m a manhoe. FML.
well deserved fail for you!
I don’t understand this at all.. Someone fully explain, please.
You could just read the…Oh never mind you’re obviously too lazy.
It’s trying to show how teenagers that like each other usually talk on Facebook chat, deleting how they really feel and sending some bland “that’s cool” comments. This video was made from the point of view of a girl and a guy that obviously like each other, and you can tell from the comments they’re deleting, but they both delete the comments that say how they really feel, and just send stuff like “so what’s up” and “cool”
Sweet jumpin’ Jeebus, NO! You NEVER tell someone else how you feel about them. Lesson for the kids: ALWAYS keep your emotions guarded. Reason being, 99.99% of everyone else couldn’t give a rat’s ass about your feelings. The more you try to share them, the more you’ll become convinced that the way you feel doesn’t matter, because that’s what you’ll be told, by either the other’s ambivalence, apathy, hostility or derision of your feelings.
The slow awkward dance performed in the above video exists for a reason. It gets performed a million times a day world wide because the human is a social animal that hates every other human, except those that don’t hate it. And the only way to determine who doesn’t hate you is through these sorts of veeeery oblique exchanges. If you’re lucky, you’ll find someone who can stand to be around you for more than five minutes.
*tries to hug you*
*you pull away in anger*
*tries to hug you again*
*you hug back and silently and secretly start crying*
*pats you on the back and says it’s okay*
it made me want to puke.
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LMAO.
Most people have the attention span of goldfish, and the reading skills of a turtle. If they haven’t figured out it was supposed to be a film, and not a real life activity, you can’t help them. Pity their parents.. or pity them for their parents, and move on.
Aww
You know what the biggest fail about this video is? Both of these ‘people’ are talking to themselves.. didn’t you notice Jane/Me came up in Jane Smith’s chatbox and James/Me came up in James Kurtroth’s chatbox?
Am I the only one that notice that they messed up the names big time in the chat. When James typed something he showed up as me on his chat(which is correct) but showed up as Jane in jane’s chat. Then Jane’s comments showed up under the name james in james’s chat. I like the idea for the video but I hate when people mess up small details and that bugged me the whole video.
Please scroll up and read the comments above.
Then proceed to hit yourself with a brick repeatedly.
Omg! It was so cute, but made me wonder how many times that has happened to the point of not getting the guy/girl…
That was cute :3
Lame. Yes I know it was fake. It was still lame. They should have thrown an anti-drug message in there somewhere too.
Umm… you most certainly will regret it if you are in a long term relationship and you tell your crush how gorgeous he is lol
uugghh… Been there.. =\
ahahaha, the names were backwards from the msg boxes lol
Why is one half of the internet population so incredibly stupid?