LATE NIGHT JOKE SPURS ON NEW SITE MOCKING SOCIAL NETWORKING HABITS

It was a simple joke by late night talk show host Conan O’Brien: “In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting website called ‘YouTwitFace.’”

But the joke may be a reality, and it happened a whole lot sooner than Conan predicted it would.

The website YouTwitFace was recently launched in an effort to pay homage to “social-media faux pas and the lighter side of technology.”

But According to the Wall Street Journal, YouTwitFace actually existed months before Conan “outed” its owner Brian Kay by telling the joke on June 3.

“We decided to come up with a new site that would just poke fun at our use of technology,” said Kay, 44, of Burlington, Wash. “We threw around every possible combination of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, sites like that, and just as we were leaving, the teenager in the family, who was sort of half-listening to our conversation, blurted out, ‘You guys, it has to be called YouTwitFace.”

According to Kay, the site will draw inspiration from humor sites like Funny or Die and FMyLife, and he hopes to launch it within a month. And that’s all I need to know to know this site could very well be amazing.