Pasadena, Los Angeles.

After dinner, Bentner sat in front of the computer and was preparing to go to Netflix's website to select discs. Tomorrow is the weekend. Since there is not enough movies that attract him to buy tickets and watch, he plans to rent a few discs and enjoy Netflix's home delivery service at home.

With Netflix, it is much more convenient to rent movies, so you don’t have to go to the Pepsika store to queue up.

PepsiCo's service attitude is not good. Anyway, the few PepsiCo's chain stores I used to visit always make people see the arrogance of giant companies.

Fortunately, Netflix is ​​now available.

Bentner opened Netflix's website and found that there was an announcement on the prominent position on the homepage. He didn't care at the beginning, so he directly logged into his account. After entering the user interface, he found that it was different from before.

The last time I came to Netflix website was a week ago, but I didn’t expect so many changes.

Online video? What is this?

Friends news? It seems that there wasn't before?

Sharing pictures and videos? What does this mean?

Bentner curiously opened the online video section and found that it was not a movie video, but a selfie video uploaded by some users. He found the hottest one and opened it and started watching.

The video has average clarity, similar to that of public TV programs, but it plays smoothly.

Bentner watched it for a while and found out that this was a video about Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp participated in a promotional event for "Pirates of the Caribbean" in New York and was surrounded by crazy fans. Depp was not panicked at all, signing fans one by one. Even though the bodyguard dragged him away from the place where fans gathered for safety reasons, Depp also struggled to complete the last signature for the fans.

Johnny Depp is like a signature madman.

This actually shows that Captain Jack Sparrow is extremely charming.

Bentner exclaimed that he also went to the theater to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean", which is indeed a rare and good movie.

The video can be commented and there is also a thumbs-up like function. Bentner first liked the video, and then wrote a random comment of praise, and found that the number of likes of this video has exceeded 50,000.

It is said that Netflix has nearly 8 million US dollars in paid users, so it is not surprising that there are so many likes.

Bentner also found that there is a sharing function next to the like, which can forward micro-information through his Netflix account and recommend videos to other friends.

Where are you friends? Bentner scratched his head a little. When he returned to the user interface, he found that there were detailed instructions in the conspicuous location. He was in a hurry to see the new feature just now, but he didn't pay attention to it.

Bentner quickly browsed the new feature description and found that any user can upload the video, but the content of the 17-banned content is strictly prohibited, and friends can filter and add it through the user interface.

Since no video was taken, Bentner threw the uploaded video aside and focused on the friend selection and addition.

There are two types of filtering functions, one is recommended from the system. The website recommends similar users as friends based on the types and hobbies of the users’ past video rentals.

Bentner was very excited and added several friends recommended by the system in one go. Then he turned to look at the self-selected screening function. This part was clear at a glance. One was that if you know the account or nickname of other Netflix users, you can add it directly; the other was to fuzzy screening through the system's keywords, such as music, football and movies.

This kind of operation has something in common with icq, but it is simpler and easier to use.

Bentner first screened some friends to add, some responded quickly, and some probably weren't online and had no response.

He thought of his friend Rossicky again, and quickly picked up his phone and called him: "It's me, Bentner! Hurry up and go to Netflix's website, there's something fun."

The sound of the fan turning quickly when the computer is turned on quickly in the phone receiver. Bentner told Rosici to read the notice first when entering Netflix's homepage, and then hang up the phone and add Rosici as a friend.

After waiting for a few minutes, Rosici responded and became a friend shared by Netflix with him.

"This new feature is really good!" Rosici sent him a message, which was like a new post, and became a single web page, allowing the two to communicate freely: "You can watch videos online, share videos, and view your friends' dynamics."

"It feels convenient, like chatting alone in a room," Bentner said.

Rosici exclaimed: "Wow! There is a guy taking a selfie in the video area, which is so cool!"

"Where?" asked Bentner.

"Wait." Rosici sent a link: "It's so convenient, I can share videos on the site directly with my friends!"

Bentner clicked on the link, and a selfie video in Netflix video area popped up and started playing. He didn't have to spend time looking for it anymore. The video was a selfie of an extreme sports enthusiast using a fixed camera, while he was playing with skateboards among various obstacles in the square.

Apart from the lack of clarity of the video, it is simply impeccable.

Simple! Convenient! Quick!

Rosici suddenly sent an expression image: "Oh! Oh! Ben, you guy is not honest, you even rent Dindu-Balas' movies!"

Bentner denied it immediately: "I don't."

Rosici said: "It is useless to deny it. Friends can see the history of renting movies. There is also a hidden function. If you choose to hide it, you won't see it."

Bentner quickly opened Rosia's friend information and indeed saw the Rental History column, which contains ten DVDs that Rosica had recently rented, and after clicking on it, it was directly the relevant rental page.

Close Rossicky's profile page, Bentner found that there is another function on the user page to view friend dynamics.

After he opened it, all the latest micro-information, uploaded pictures and published videos, etc., were presented accordingly, which was simply clear at a glance.

And not only can you read, like and comment, but you can also forward it with your own account.

Bentner saw that Rosici forwarded several photos of snow mountain from unknown people. Those photos seemed to have been specially processed and were very beautiful.

He quickly found Johnny Depp's video, reposted it, and added a title "Signature Maniac"!

In addition, in addition to adding friends, there is also a function to follow users. Bentner has carefully read the instructions. It turns out that this function does not require adding friends to each other. As long as you follow a certain user, the website will automatically push the other party's real-time dynamics to you.

After walking around the website, although there are some flaws, Bentner thinks the newly added function is really good, and he can share his favorite movies, pictures and videos, and even current information and texts with people in a timely manner.

Although the scope is limited to Netflix users, Netflix has eight million users!

What you wrote yourself may appear in front of eight million people in an instant, which is really great.

Bentner has the feeling that no matter who or what he meets, he can have a wide audience to speak out!

Think about it, only those big journalists could do this before.

"Ben, hurry up! Follow this user!" Rosicky forwarded a user link: "Tom Cruise! This user is Tom Cruise!"

Bentner subconsciously thought this was fake: "Impossible? Will Tom Cruise register a Netflix user? Did someone else use his name?"

Click the link and the user name is indeed Tom Cruise. Even the user's avatar is Tom Cruise's classic image in Top Gun. Bentner still doesn't think this is true.

But when he saw the content posted by the other party, he was suddenly stunned and realized that it might be Tom Cruise!

"I work on the set, and my assistant took a few photos and shared my work with you."

There is only this content, followed by five pictures, all of which are photos of Tom Cruise working and resting in the crew. It is obvious that the background is on a certain interior set.

Not to mention ordinary people, reporters can’t take photos like this in the studio. Is this user really Tom Cruise himself?

Bentner subconsciously paid attention and found that Tom Cruise was also following others. He quickly opened his follower list, which were all famous names: Will Smith, Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Ang Lee, and Ronan Anderson, the producer of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Spy Shadows".

He opened it one by one and looked it one by one. All of these people posted content, and they were mainly pictures, all of which were work and life photos of relatively closed occasions.

Combining these, Bentner truly realized that these are probably me!

Bentner all clicked on it and thought it was a good thing. If they continued to post the corresponding content, they could avoid the often nonsense entertainment media and learn about the first-hand information and work and life of their favorite stars.

Suddenly, Bentner's web page flashed, and a short sound of dripping sounds sounded from the speaker. He clicked on the flashing avatar and felt dizzy...

The video of Johnny Depp's crazy signature that was just forwarded with the title of "Signing Maniac" was praised!

And the user who liked it showed - Johnny Depp!

Isn't this true? Bentner excitedly clicked on the name, and what popped up was indeed the main page of Johnny Depp that he had just seen!

Johnny Depp liked me? Bentner was still stunned. It took a while before he came to his senses and confirmed this: Johnny Depp liked him!

Bentner was so excited that he wanted to take a photo with his camera and then send it with a micro message, but he was sadly finding that his phone did not have the function of taking photos.

In order to vent his excitement, Bentner specially found a video of Johnny Depp that can be forwarded from the Internet and posted it on Netflix's video website. Johnny Depp is probably the hottest person now. A few minutes later, he found that his video actually had hundreds of clicks.

Because of Netflix's newly launched feature, Bentner played until it was almost eleven o'clock and went to bed. He lay on the bed, but couldn't sleep because of what Johnny Depp liked.

Netflix actually allowed him to achieve intimate interaction with his idol!

People like Bentner who are new to social networks would not have imagined that the user was indeed Johnny Depp, but the one who liked him might be an inconspicuous staff member of Depp's team or other employees.
Chapter completed!