King of the Hill

Last night I was watching my favorite cartoon "King of the Hill" and once again it disappoint in the humor department. I think it's great that a person can relate to these characters. I love Hank Hill. He like a lot of older traditional, non-technical, and homophobic people in our society. He represents the part of society that is resisting the use of the Internet in today's business world. One of the story lines in the episode was the use of "MySpace" in advertising. It was interesting to see that even in cartoonland that use of the Internet is a valuable tool for both good and evil.

What happened was that all the employees at Strickland Propane, where Hank is the assistant manager, were to create a profile for the company's MySpace page. Hank didn't want to do it so the secretary, who was also the person responsible for updating the company's MySpace page, sent out word for a flash mob to appear at Strickland Propane at a particular time. Well the flash mob ended beating up Strickland's owner by mistake and the secretary was fired. She went on a MySpace rampage and said the company was evil and don't by their products. Well, Hank (along with his co-workers) found her and convinced her to take the company's MySpace page down and the company went back to dealing with their customers face to face.

I guess the moral of the story is probably either to have more than one person in the company responsible for the webpage or use a firm offers this type of service.