When is 'family friendly' not?

We pride ourselves on being "Family Friendly" at Friday Fun. Which means a lot of very funny stuff goes in the bin as it's simply not suitable. Sometimes, though it's a real dilemma.

Here is a good example from today. My seven year old drew my attention to this game. It's great fun. You fire a cat from a canon and see how far you can make it bounce.

Sounds harmless enough (unless you're a cat, that is). But then you find out that the things that make it bounce further are sticks of dynamite and explosives. Not nice for poor pussy. And the reason it finally stops is that either it runs out of steam, or it's snapped up by a cat-eating plant or worse still, impaled on spikes. Yuck!

It's in!

Friday Fun Enhancements

We're always thinking about ways to improve Friday Fun. Here are some of the items we have in mind. Vote below for any or all you'd like to see. If there are others that are not mentioned, use the comment option below to let us know what YOU think. Select the anonymous option for speediness.

More regular email updates. We update once a month and send an email to subscribers at the same time. One option would be to make that weekly or more frequent.

Next / previous buttons. We'd like to add a link from one item to the next so that you don't need to go back to the indec each time.

Rating. Well we think we select the best funnies but what do you think? One thing we'd like to add is a simple rating system so you can see what others like best and to add your own vote.

Sorting. At the moment we list the newest funnies first then the rest are alphabetical. One option would be to sort by name, date or rating.

Which Friday Fun enhancements would you like to see?
	More frequent email updates
	More frequent content updates
	Next / Previous buttons
	Ratings
	Sorting
	Other (Use Comments option below)
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Funny Videos vs Company Virals

When you put a site like Friday Fun together you know that some of the clips are amateur footage of funny events and some are expensive extensions to corporate branding or marketing strategies.

Do we care?

Personally I don't. As long as they are funny, they deserve a place here and on sites like this. Mind you, we put most content in the bin! Whatever the source.

I'm still rather fond of The Lenovo Tapes - the three videos are close to my heart - anyone know why?







But even with these expensive virals around, there is still plenty of space for the amateur ones, which in my view, deserve even more credit if they can break through the noise that company marketing creates out there.

Here's a favourite:

Do you have a preference? Do you care? Or do you just want to be entertained?

Does the site need porn?

There seem to be two sorts of fun web sites like Friday Fun.

Those like ours that started as a bit of fun and grew into something that thousands of people visit each day, looking for a laugh. Mostly not for profit.

And then there are those that set themselves up primarily as businesses to charge companies that want to seed their viral marketing campaigns.

Oh and there’s money to be made! A recent viral I was involved with, cost several 10s of thousands of our nice British pounds to seed properly. That meant getting it listed on sites and blogs where hundreds of thousands of people would see it, copy it, send it on and get the ‘viral’ aspects of the job done. And to be fair, it did well.

However, almost all the sites were covered in porn. “Why?” you ask. The answer, it seems, is to drive up traffic. Sadly in a world of numbers, the thing that brings the punters back in droves, is porn. Amazing huh?

So why no porn on Friday Fun? Well two reasons really. First we are not a money making operation - we do it for fun. Sure we get paid for some of the clips, but you know what, they still need to make us laugh first. We hand pick every item we list - if they are not funny, they ain’t there!

And the other reason is we really do believe there must be space for just ONE site on the web that adults can happily send their kids to, without worrying about what they see.

So if you want smut, porn, snuff or scat, go somewhere else. So we may not make money this way but at least one little corner of the web is sticking with it’s principles.

Take it or leave it.