Did you know that the world’s oldest message in a bottle has been found? Now I’ve been on the lookout since vacations ago for my very own authentic message in a bottle dating all the way back to 1999 when Hollywood lead me to believe that the likings of glass and paper could lead me to my very own Kevin Costner(so far unsuccessful). However this was no love letter, instead a plea for information from Captain C. Hunter Brown, a scientist studying currents in the North Sea. According to the article, “The bottle was one of 1,890 bottles released on June 10, 1914, and the 315th to be entered into Captain Brown’s log, which is still kept and updated by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen.”  Way cool.

What does this have to do with social media might you ask? You see the experiment was intended to capture information with the help of regular people. Scientist Brown saw a need to gather data and he did it the best way he knew how, by throwing his passion for research into a bottle and hoping that someday, somehow people would turn them in. Years later Elvis Johnson of Nelson Lagoon Alaska did. We at Gossip Genie have no intention of throwing products into the ocean in hopes of receiving credible feedback, but we are ready to help you take the plunge. If you are struggling to stay afloat with your online presence or wondering how you can stir the waters a bit more then step aboard, we are your Elvis Johnson.