Discovery Invites You To Get Attacked For Shark Week with Facebook Connect

sharkweekThe Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is now one of the channel’s most popular TV series, and this year they’re promoting the fan favorite with a new Facebook Connect-enabled wesbite called Frenzied Waters.

The site gives you the point-of-view experience of shark attacks over the decades from Jersey in 1916 to the Coral Seas in WWII. The final installment is “My Story”, which creates a personalized video of your own shark attack by integrating data from your Facebook profile. It’s a little spooky, a little disturbing and potentially hilarious depending on the photos that get pulled into the video.

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The use of Facebook Connect to give people a more personalized media experience is starting to become more prevalent. In addition to the Shark Week video, the recent Facebook Connect-enabled Doritos iD3 promotion pulls user information into an interactive multimedia game.

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There’s no denying that Shark Week is already very popular, but if you aren’t a die-hard fan, you could easily miss it until you stumble across it by accident or hear about it from a friend. Discovery’s use of Facebook to keep Shark Week fresh in viewers’ minds and reinforce the intensity of the series is a good move. Shark Week begins Aug. 2 on the Discovery Channel.

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