Chapter 25: The Restless Ahn Joon-hyuk (Part II)
If you raise your vision to low-earth orbit and look down on the arc of the earth below, the shock of the great power of heaven and earth will most likely make everyone who sees it silent, the earth has not stopped rotating every moment, the clouds have converged and changed over the ocean, the vast blue and land are moving from west to east, the sun does not hang in the sky as it does when the earth is observed, its light does not change, it shines here in the distance of darkness, dyeing the atmosphere into a brilliant cover, the light spreads, Asia slowly moves towards darkness, and the Americas begin to show the dawnγ
This is the almost eternal reincarnation in the tide of time, just like people live a life day after day, but if you abandon such a macro perspective, sink your eyes back to the land, every time from night to early morning, every day of life, in fact, changes are everywhere, the tide of the times has never stopped its impact and imprint on history,
When another day of dawn arrives, many cities on the map of the United States of America wake up from the night, and the morning newspapers typeset and printed overnight begin to appear on the lawns or mailboxes of thousands of families sprinkled with water with the sound of car bells.
When people wake up and pick up the rolled newspaper tubes, spread them out, or at the breakfast table, or on the crowded bus, and start reading those little lead words, the train of the times will rumble past people's minds!
"Facebook is fully open, or is it a new era?" β The New York Times
"Bill Gates: People, Dogs, Facebook: People!" β USA Today, which adheres to its usual image reading style. Two cartoons are the theme, one by Pete Steiner in 1993, with a black and white background, a CRT monitor, and two dogs crouching in front of it. And the other one, everything has changed, the background color is bright and rich color, the display is a high-tech LED, and the person sitting in front of the monitor has also become a young man who is browsing the web.
Two cartoons. The contrast of the imprint of the times is clearly visible.
"Facebook!News.Feed!A new model that is different from the average network. It may be an attempt at innovation, a turning point in the transformation of the Internet, or it may just be an exaggerated failure, but for Wall Street. They have found new and interesting investment projects. βThe Wall Street Journal
"Yahoo, Google told you. What is fake!Facebook tells you. What is true!" β The New York Post, a news corp. newspaper known for its sensationalism and gossip, has indeed inherited its usual penchant for "sowing discord."
"Half a month ago. Facebook is penniless. Half a month later, the site is making its name heard by the American people at an astonishing rate, but its rise doesn't mean much, everything depends on how it performs after it is fully opened, whether it is another Google or a fleeting meteor?" - The Washington Post
Most of these big and famous newspapers covered Facebook's fully open press conference in an unbiased manner, and no one dared to say for sure that it would succeed or fail except for the New York Post's forever entertaining spoof.
As the New York Times article said, "...... If half a month ago, I might have been dismissive of this news, the development prospects of the so-called social network are not clear, Facebook is not the only one, it is still outside the top 50 'young people' in the national website rankings, and it also has the same kind of frontrunners MySpace and Linkedin. But a press conference made me change my mind about it, and it's hard to determine whether full openness will succeed, whether 'News Feed' will do its job, and they may be resisted by users, but I think it's at least half the way through β it has a good CEO, a leader who is as 'young' as Facebook, but very charismatic......"
"His words can stir up your passion. USA Today said, "When he pronounced that famous sentence, the tip of my pen trembled, and the words he pronounced seemed to make people hear a sense of mission, a sense of satisfaction and honor to stand in front of the great wall of history and then see it shattered with your own eyes." Eleven years ago, when Bill Gates quoted that famous quote, people who read it probably felt the same way, that is, the kind of trembling that witnesses the tide of the times, subverts history, and then creates history...... His charisma makes it impossible to say with certainty that Facebook will fail!"
The Wall Street Journal also gave a positive assessment: "...... Ahn from South Korea is a very qualified CEO, he knows how to stir people's emotions, make people become positive, full of mission, it is said that he used the way of speech at the beginning of his tenure to unify different voices within the body, under his leadership, how far Facebook can go, no one can say for the time being, but many venture capital institutions on Wall Street can already take action, because having such a leader has at least reduced Facebook's investment risk by half!"
Of course, compared to many local newspapers, the attitude of newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times still seems conservative, and John, a staff writer who is almost on the verge of becoming an admirer of Ahn Junhyuk, does not shy away from singing about his support for Ahn Junhyuk and his admiration and praise for Facebook's new network model: "...... In Ann's hands, Facebook is exuding a unique charm and aroma, his thinking is very constructive, now the Internet, full of falsehood and distrust, a world that has lost trust is sad, colorless, and Ann, and his Facebook is trying to paint a colorful picture for the world of the Internet. This innovative model, like the ivy, haunts nobility and unparalleled appeal, especially for older web users β we can't ignore the fact that people are getting more and more tired of the unreal ......"
"'I've never liked it when people call Facebook a dating network, dating is not the purpose of Facebook, extending the reality of reality to the Internet is our ultimate pursuit,' said An. I am incredibly sure that this new definition will sound the clarion call for an all-out attack on Web 2.0!
Even Rhodes of the San Francisco Chronicle, who always publishes articles expressing his dissatisfaction with Facebook, can't help but say sourly in this article: "...... I still don't like Facebook, especially when it's open and after that 'News Feed' came along. I can't imagine how embarrassing it feels to have everything I do exposed. It's just a 'rogue' service that invades privacy. But its CEO isn't too bad, at least in terms of long-term vision, and his views are convincing to many, so Facebook probably won't lose too badly β of course. The premise of 'maybe' here is. Ahn Joon-hyuk would do well to change his mind about opening up people. β
And that's just the print version. People are always blind to it, and when a lot of the media starts to refer to a company uniformly, the conversation naturally shifts to that direction.
When the web version appears after a period of delay. Then more news sites, portals began to have similar reporting articles, and people's attention was inevitably drawn to the past, and once they saw it, they could no longer take their eyes off.
Perhaps, just like the comment of "USA Today", Ahn Junhyuk's sentence: "What Facebook is doing is to let everyone know whether it is a person or a dog on the other side of the network!" is the most historically representative answer to that classic quote, and it has also become the most classic answer in the minds of countless people.
With comics, the meaning of each word in the sentence seems to be engraved with the imprint of the times, the older people remember it in sighs, and the young people think it is very cool.
The attention drove them to engage with the topic, and then it quickly spread across the web and then quickly spread to other countries as Facebook opened up to the fullest.
Not to mention other countries, in South Korea, it caused a sensation like a magnitude 10 earthquake!
Ahn Joon-hyuk has disappeared for more than a month, but for the Internet and the public, more than a month is not enough time for people to forget him, all the people in the press still remember that since the beginning of the year, this name has almost dominated the entertainment and financial pages.
Although Ahn Jun-hyuk's activities in the entertainment industry were only three months after the screening of "Wang Nan" at the beginning of the year, and then his war with SK did not seem to have anything to do with the entertainment industry, but who made him a star? In the field of music, he is currently one of the most popular SOLO singers, and he is also the most popular male idol, and his influence in film and television is also incomparable, and the success of "Wang Nan" has captured a large number of fans and box office guarantees for him.
As a result, during the JS war, there was a rather strange situation in the Korean press - almost every entertainment newspaper, magazine, news website, and entertainment section of the portal website was publishing economic news that had nothing to do with them, and even the editor-in-chief who was originally an entertainment commentator would take the trouble to analyze how the JS war was, what impact it would have, and what changes it would bring.
During that time, the blow to other star artists was almost devastating, their dynamics no longer attracted attention, compared to the wind and rain stirred by Ahn Jun Hyuk, they were like playing at home, not to mention that the media was reluctant to report, they themselves were embarrassed to show their hands.
It wasn't until the JS war came to an end and Ahn Joon-hyuk disappeared that the situation improved.
But everyone didn't expect that the comfortable media time that belonged to them was so short, yes, Ahn Jun-hyuk disappeared from South Korea, it is said that the JS war has greatly damaged the vitality of both sides, and he will probably have to recuperate for a long time, and will not appear again, and the entertainment career is ...... Some people were fortunate before, but fortunately, the Entertainers Association banned him for a year and a half, otherwise everyone would not have lived!
But......
On September 4, when the news of Facebook's opening in the United States spread explosively on the Internet, the name Ahn Jun-hyuk also poured back to South Korea from foreign servers like a tsunami.
The press is boiling!(To be continued......