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Revolution Now Part 6: Channel Surfing

Meme Channel
Anyone with a Livejournal, MySpace, and/or Facebook account must know all about memes. While they aren't all the same, the bulk majority of these chain letter-esque forwards involve personal questions where you procrastinate get to learn about yourself and your friends. And for some inexplicable reason, they're popular. I don't know why, but people are interested to know if I've seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, if I've ever swam in an ocean, and how old I was when I first kissed someone.

The Meme Channel would be similar to the Everybody Votes channel, only more personal. You register your Mii with the Channel and send invites to your Wii Address Book friends to join. Once you establish a specific Mii to send questions to, can custom create questions and send them off any or all of your friends and family members through their "Meme Channel account", for lack of a better term – over the net or directly on the same Wii. When you log in, you're presented with all the new questions that have arrived since the last time, and you get to answer them. Questions are presented as multiple choice with two or four answers, or with open-ended responses.

Once you're done, the responses are sent back to the person who sent you the questions, and you are able to see their responses. You can also forward the questions with your responses to other friends. For the multiple-choice questions, you get to see an instant percentage breakdown based on the responses that your friends have made, as opposed to the entire country over a one-week period.

Because the questions are user-created and they aren't screened or altered (though I imagine certain words would be starred out), Nintendo can't be held responsible for their content. You're choosing to connect with friends on your Wii account, and targeting which Mii from that system to send the content to. Most people should be satisfied with that security and flexibility. If you find questions to be inappropriate, you can always toss them and remove people from the receipt list.

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