Bruce Willis’ ex wife Demi Moore may be the Twitter queen, but the action star has revealed he isn’t a fan of social networking sites.

The Hollywood actor hit the red carpet in LA for the premiere of his new film Surrogates, and when a journalist tried to discuss Facebook with him, Bruce gave the reporter a scathing look and simply said: “Dude…!”

Shame on you, Mr Willis…

Here are TEN things Brucie should know about social media and all round web geekiness…

ONE: Look Who’s (Cyber S)Talking

Willis’s performed as the voice of baby Mikey in this 1989 comedy co-starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. The film and its sequel Look Who’s Talking Too focuses on parenting from the perspective of the children in a world where babies talk to each other in fluent wisecracking New York-enese.
The subject of parenting was recently covered by Revolution Magazine in a piece on how mothers are now stalking their kids online to keep tabs on what they’re up to:

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TWO: The Sixth Sense

If Brucie ever wonders what to do if he ever “sees dead people”…

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THREE: Armageddon

So, the world’s gonna end? You’ll probably learn about it first on Twitter…

The brilliant endofworld.net animation on the end of the world sure beats the 1998 suckfest that was Armageddon (surprisingly the highest grossing film of the year).

FOUR: Die Hard

The Die Hard Fan Club Facebook Application has fifteen active users.

“Yipee Ki Yay, Motherfucker!”

FIVE: The Fifth Element

The “Divine Language” spoken in the film is a fictional language with only 400 words, invented by director Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich. Jovovich stated that she and Besson wrote letters to each other in the Divine Language as practice. Nowadays, 400 words could surely be reduced to 140 characters?
Geeks Fans from around the world have created homages to this fictional language and there’s even a forum dedicated to adding new words to this niche vocabulary.
Bruce’s refusal to engage online makes him slightly chon* wouldn’t you say?

(*Divinian for arrogant)

SIX: Twelve (Grease) Monkeys

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit.

You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable. You can fix rendering bugs that the site owner can’t be bothered to fix themselves. You can also alter pages so they work better with assistive technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. You can even automatically retrieve data from other sites to make two sites more interconnected.

Here are 12 Greasemonkey scripts that have changed the way many people view the web:
1. YouTube Googler – Makes YouTube look a lot better and more like Google video by expanding the video frame and moving the comments to the side bar.
2. Pagerization – A general auto-pager for Google search, Yahoo, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Twitter, and Digg. Another one is AutoPagerize
3. Flickr – Multiple Group Sender – Allows you to send your Flickr image to multiple groups by overriding the default defualt “Send To Group” button.
4. Gmail – Signature Float – Moves the signature in a new Gmail message to the top of the email rather than the bottom. Can also be used to enter HTML signatures.
5. Download YouTube Videos III – Adds a “Download Video” button and icon next to the currently playing video. Just rename the file to “.flv” with the quotes included.
6. Last.fm Recently Played – Inserts recently played information onto various pages around Last.fm, such as friends, neighbors, and recent visitors panels.
7. Folders4Gmail – Organize your labels in Gmail in a folder-like collapsible hierarchy instead of flat labels.
8. Greased Lightbox – Enhances browsing of images via Google Image search, Flickr, Wikipedia, FaceBook, MySpace, and devianArt by enlarging images and allowing the use of keyboard arrow keys to browse though images quickly.
9. Gmail – One Click Conversations – Easily view recent conversations with someone in Gmail by clicking on a small icon to the left of the sender name.
10. Gmail Super Clean – Gives Gmail a new Web 2.0 interface or “skin” that looks much nicer.
11. RSS/ATOM Feed Subscribe Button Generator – Automatically finds the RSS/Atom links on a page and generates feed subscription links.
12. LookItUp2 – Quickly lookup anything in Wikipedia, a dictionary, or add your custom site by clicking Shift+Ctrl+Space. Results are viewed directly in the page.

(courtesy of online tech tips)

SEVEN: Unbreakable

Say no more…

EIGHT: Bonfire of the Vanities

The 1990 film adaptation of a novel by Tom Wolfe, also called The Bonfire of the Vanities. The film was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Bruce Willis as Peter Fallow, Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, Melanie Griffith as Maria Ruskin, and Kim Cattrall as Judy McCoy, Sherman’s wife.

The film’s marketing tag-line was:

“An outrageous story of greed, lust and vanity in America.”

Looks like they’re revisiting this tag-line with the forthcoming Facebook: The movie…

NINE: Hudson (Twitter) Hawk

Within minutes of US Airways flight 1549 ditching in New York’s Hudson river at the start of this year, the blogosphere was buzzing with the news. Emails, Twitter messages, mobile phone photos and hazy videos about the crash flitted across cyberspace. Some reassured friends and loved ones that all was well; others simply documented the unfolding drama as all 155 passengers and crew made their way to safety using the jet’s inflatable emergency chutes.
Twitter users broke the news of the incident around 15 minutes before the mainstream media alerted viewers and readers to the crash.

TEN: Friends (re-united)

Who could forget Mr Willis’ career highlight playing alongside the cast of Friends in in which he played the father of Ross Geller’s much-younger girlfriend…

The number one Friends Fan Page on Facebook has over 2m Fans:

Search Engine Ask Jeeves announced today that it is celebrating 15 years of the US sitcom with its own Friends Quiz.Go on… you know you want to!

“Yipee Ki Yay……..!”