Nine social media Halloween costume ideas.

Struggling for a Halloween costume idea? Want to impress your friends with your subtle social media smarts? Sure, anyone can be a Facebook profile or YouTube video, but where's the innovation in that?

As a public service, The Social Path would like to offer a few ideas for your consideration:

1. Fail Whale

Step 1. Find a giant, smiling whale suit.

Step 2. Using durable wire, attach small fake birds over your head.

Step 3: Every time you walk into a party, turn out the lights.
 

2. The Social Media Demographic

Step 1: Be a female between the ages of 25-35.

Step 2: Confound the experts by only hanging out with people you already knew.
 

3. Naymz

Step 1: Spend all night telling strangers that they have unread messages in their inbox.

Step 2: Don’t get anywhere near me unless you want a punch in the neck.

4. Radian6  

Step 1: Keep a careful tally of how many people are at the party.

Step 2: Get paid handsomely and adored for your skill.

Step 3: Enjoy listening to dozens of others complain, “Hey wait, I can count too! Why aren’t you paying me?!”

5. Orkut

Step 1: Get asked repeatedly “who are you again?”

Step 2: Remind them that you work for Google.

Step 3: Stop wasting your time and just tell everyone you’re huge in Brazil.

6. News Blogger

Step 1: Walk around showing people today’s newspaper and ranting your opinions on it.

Step 2: Spend the rest of your time talking about how newspapers are boring, worthless and dying.
 

7. Social Media Expert

Step 1: Talk nonstop about how many friends you have and offer tips on how YOU TOO can have so many friends.

Step 2: Sit around wondering why no one wants to talk to you.
 

8. MySpace

Step 1: Wear a revealing but heavily BeDazzled outfit.

Step 2: Frustrate the popular kids by playing music better than anyone else.

Step 3: Occasionally set off fireworks in people’s faces and scream Linkin Park lyrics out of nowhere.
 

9. LinkedIn

Step 1: Dress like your dad.

Step 2: Act like your dad.

Of course, if you try any of these, please be sure to send us the photos. We would really, really love to hear how it goes.

Photo credits: Thomas van Ardenne and Cayusa on Flickr.

Comments

[Ike]

10. Tom from MySpace.

Go dressed in casual clothes. When people say "Who are *you* supposed to be?" answer "I am Tom."

When they say "Tom *who*?" you know the costume was a complete success.

[John Coonen]

I was already laughin...then I got to #9 about LinkedIn and 'bout pooped me drawers. Awesome!

[Justin]

LOL @ John crapping himself. #9 is awesome.

[Mediaista]

How about a blog commenter? You can find the News Blogger and keep hassling him about his stupid opinions and how out of touch he is.

You may need to change clothes several times to re-enter the party after being banned.

[David Alston]

For #4, Ah yes Dave but don't forget...

Step 4: We'd track those complaints in real-time as comments and assign those puppies to correct person to engage and better understand the likes and dislikes of the costume,

Step 5: Using the comments and the discussion we'd determine the influence score of the guests to know who to engage with first when forming the conga line,

Step 6: We'd pop open a conversation cloud to see if it was our fishnet stockings or rockabilly mullet that was causing the most discussion,

Step 7: We'd leave the party late after dancing up a storm knowing we'd get alerts to our emails - in case anyone did a better moonwalk.

Step 8: Make a photo album of all of the great pics of the evening and even the crazy videos of our chicken dance - scooped up from the event later when friends had three cups of coffee in them and knew what they were uploading.

;) Hey, I couldn't resist. Funny idea for a post. Happy Halloween from the gang at Radian6.

Cheers.
@davidalston
Radian6

[literanista]

Linkedin - slam dunk!

[Scott Schablow]

Simply: Priceless. I'm thinking about going as SpaceBook. ;-)

[amymengel]

This is a hoot.

Idea for a couple's costume? Go as each half of the old default Twitter avatar, the Double Goose Egg.

[Gillian]

Re: blog commenter... how about lurking around waiting for someone else to say something interesting and then yelling "FIRST"