“Google Xistence: Because life is too short for social interaction”

Posted on | January 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

About a week ago, I ran across a hilarious prank called Google Xistence that offered people to take care of the time consuming social media “stuff” by sending out randomly generated status updates and tweets for you, so that you would have time to get some work done. The site even bolstered the brilliant slogan: “Because life is too short for social interaction”. That’s funny.

The idea was so weird and the site so convincing, that – for a moment at least – I caught myself wondering if this in fact a hoax or not. Awesome.

Now the guy behind the website, “AMA” kewagi, has announced on Reddit that the site apparently has had a phishing-scam warning put upon it by Google themselves. He writes, under the headline of ‘I’m the guy behind Google Xistence. AMA‘:

“A few days ago, I launched a fake Google service called Xistence ( http://www.googlexistence.com/ ) that offers to live your social life for you so you can get real things done. After a few hours of frantic Twitter theatre, the nice guys from Mountain View slapped me with a “Phishing Scam” warning, ending my performance. AMA”

Check out the video presentation of the site:

See the Reddit announcement here, follow AMA on Twitter here or go directly to Google Xistence (make sure to mark as ‘not phishing’ in your browser).

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