It appears that most of my recent blog entries have not highlighted the potential that social networking sites have. So I was reminded of a Facebook group that I joined about a year ago called The Grease Jar. A guy that I went to high school with actually created this site about the jar that he and his roommates had used to contain any grease they had left over after cooking. They would have their friends come over and pose for pictures with the grease jar and post them on the site. Anyways he eventually created this Facebook group and after he was able to sell the jar on e-bay for about $700 dollars. Since then they have created t-shirts to sell, and even were working on a calendar which would include photos of girls posing with the jar.
The Washington Post covered this story back in April of 2007 in an article titled, " From a 'Ridiculous Idea' Comes Greasy Kitsch Stuff." NPR also did a story about the guys and their grease jar. My point in bringing up this story is that with the technologies that we have at our fingertips today, a group of broke college students were able to sell their grease jar and become successful business philanthropists. If Facebook and E-bay were not around the grease jar would have ended up in a trash dump instead of a "piece of modern art" as the ad on E-bay described it.
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It is crazy what technology is capable of these days, I just wonder even with all the advertisement they did for it, honestly, who would buy a jar of grease for $700? It blows my mind
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