Using Facebook and word-of-mouth, we spread the word to everyone we knew, asking them to watch our video on YouTube and leave comments about their impression. We posted the video on Break.com as a control test, and told no one that our video was on this site. The success for the Break.com control test was poor, with only ten views and no comments. The success of the video on my YouTube account was 
far superior; the end result was 125 views, and seven comments. The first six days of tracking the video on my YouTube account were the biggest bursts in views, with 63 views after the first day, followed by 88 views by the end of the third day, and 105 by the end of the sixth. The last six days crept along slowly, with no big jumps in between.
Of the seven comments left on my YouTube account and my Facebook, three of them stood out as having some participation with the project's critique of media. The YouTube user Renegadevibe made constructive suggestion about our video and sound editing, as well as asking other viewers to check out his own videos. A commenter from Facebook, Sampson Li, thought that the video had an “old documentary feel”. And another Facebook friend, Yentl Ip, agreed with our interpretation that WoW was definitely “way too much” for beginners entering the gaming community. The most detailed comment came from the YouTube user, Canterios, who said, “This was awesome. It was like Minority Report meets The Matrix going horribly wrong, but in a good way. But it's scarily truthful with how kids are now. Hell, I saw a 10 year old with a cell phone and an iPod today; she was texting on the phone and listening to her ipod, ignoring everything her mom was trying to say to her.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB_tyBcG7Dc
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2010/5/20/tech-addiction-1841180
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