Dearest Readers,
The explosion of facebook on the planet has created big businesses such as ticketmaster to incorporate facebook onto their websites. I recently purchased Chris Cornell Tkx on ticketmaster as was surprised to find a list of facebook peps who are also attending the concert. It offered, that if I was a member I could chat with other concert goers through facebook. I don’t have a facebook account but I did think it was interesting that ticketmaster teamed up with the biggest social network right now. And in thus, reinforcing facebooks immense popularity between the generations . Because ticketmaster offers tickets from opera to hard metal; people with all tastes and cultural preferences are finding the usefulness in facebook attractive enough to desire its resources even when purchasing tkx to live shows.
It shows that facebook has globalized the internet in a way that its face is literally commercialized on a variety of websites. Not only is this a smart business venture it is bringing people together with similar interests as well. Providing an effective example of Wellmans term the new ‘networked individualism’ :a more specialised social system which is base on having control over who is in ones circle of friends. We are now not predestine to make friends with the people we meet at school or at work; there is another option to enrich our social capita – through the internet. This change has made people even that much more dependant on the internet. Is this perhaps what big business has planned all along; to get people hooked. > and than seek out business ventures to stimulate profits. Ticketmaster as a Monoploy is also like facebook in that it becomes the only and most popular way to provide a particular service. Why are we all forced to buy tickets only from them anyway?
Has the internet rather made people more dependant on their social networks than before?? Why do we want to know whos going to the same concert as us? Can’t we do anything alone anymore. In part the internet has sprung individuality in the way it supports human uniqueness but it also creates a feeling of need for constant social contact. Everyone I have ever met discourages me from getting on facebook because they say ‘Its Addicting’. > its a house party with a fluidity of conversation and events. With the whole world invited! With the most popular peps in constant attendance. It has fostered a new community of friends for many but the question is ‘ How easy is it to leave the party’ and eventually will the party die out?? > for perhaps more intimate parties where not everybody knows your name.
Kindest Thoughts,
Barb E
Check out this comic strip…. pokes fun at ticketmaster as a monopoly business for purchasing tickets….
http://bassistwanted.com/strips/stephen/2004/12/28/
P.S ; so excited for Chris Cornell Concert in September heres a clip … And i love his version of Micheals ‘Billie Jean’. Despite some criticism he has recieved for bthe new version of the song.
