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Big Brother for Millennials?
Over the last week, I have been watching a new tv show, being aired on Channel 4, involving a group of contestants, who move into an apartment building, but can only communicate with each other through an internal social network.
The objective? To be the most liked; the most popular. To avoid being ‘blocked’ and eliminated.
The prize? £50,000. And while this is a hefty chunk of change, as a viewer, this prize money seems to take a complete back seat to the action unfolding on screen.
It started with eight contestants. They entered their respective apartments, and set up their profile pages. The interesting thing is that while some of them set up their profiles, and were completely honest, several of them were not.
One woman, held back the fact that she is mother to a six month old baby, and that she actually has the baby with her in the apartment. Another contestant, loud, Essex based man-child, Freddie, decided to claim to be heterosexual, in spite of the fact that he is actually gay, and another of them, arguably playing the biggest gamble at the start, is ‘Anna’, who is actually Alex. Alex set up his profile using his girlfriend’s photo, and has since, been posing as ‘one of the girls’.
We’re only five episodes in, and there have been arguments, tantrums (mainly…
