Bored? Post Your # on YouTube
There is a wild phenomenon going on at YouTube at the moment.
People are posting their mobile numbers on the site and asking people to call them at any time of the day or night.
Ryan Fitzgerald was the originator, taking 3,420 calls in 36 hours before finally giving into sleep. Not surprisingly, he burned all of his free nights and weekend minutes. A CNN reporter called at 4 a.m. Monday and busted him. He didn’t answer. Exhaustion had finally set in and he drifted off to sleep.
He received calls from Mexico, the Island of Cyprus, practically everywhere on earth.
Ryan’s motivation was simple: He said he wanted to be there for the lonely people, the people who were up at 4 a.m. with a problem that they need to talk to someone about. That’s a pretty cool reason to post your phone number for the world to see.
Predictably, the trend has spawned copycats. Luke Johnson is the newest YouTube mobile phone guy:
My Threads friend Valerie Hancock tells me Christian artist Brandon Heath did the same thing by posting his mobile number on his CD jacket. We have not heard of his results just yet, but we are betting he is going to need to get a new number
About the Author
Jim is the director of Young Adult Ministry at LifeWay Christian Resources. He has worked for the past 11 years in a variety of roles, ranging from marketing to publishing to Internet development. Before being called to full-time ministry, he worked as a reporter and editor at Alabama’s capital city daily newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, for 10 years. Prior to coming to LifeWay, he also worked as an adult-in-missions editor at the Brotherhood Commission in Memphis. Jim and his wife Tammy have been married for 23 years and have two sons, Spenser, 17, and Ethan, 10.
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