• Also Available: 6-copy counter display ISBN: 9780062092861 / $89.94 ($113.94 CAN)

• Overstreet’s humor piece “If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses” (August 2010) has received 3 million views and has been “liked” 120,000 times on Facebook. This is a very popular concept, and we have a tremendous base audience to market the book to.

• Other books based on hugely popular websites - SH*T MY DAD SAYS, STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE, AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS, F MY LIFE, CAKE WRECKS, and others—have gone on to be huge bestsellers.

• With over 500 million active users, Facebook is ripe for a spot-on parody, and this book will combine social media satire with real history to produce a totally unique, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant humor book.
 
 
 

In August 2010, Wylie Overstreet published a satirical article called “If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses” on the website CoolMaterial.com. Within a month, it had received 3 million views and had been “liked” by 120,000 Facebook users.

In The History of the World According to Facebook, Overstreet expands this concept into a full-length history of the world, from its creation up through present day, as if Facebook had existed all along and Abraham Lincoln had written a status update about “taking the missus to the theater” on April 15, 1865 and Ben Franklin had done the same alerting his network that he’d signed the Declaration of Independence (”Bring it,” replied John Adams). Filled with hundreds of real-life historical figures and thousands of not-at-all-real Facebook statuses, comments, and actions, and parodying Facebook users’ proclivity to over-share and use lazy jargon (”lol,” “rofl,” “fml,” etc.), this is the definitive humor book for our generation.