Discussion with Invincible and Waajeed

I thought it was really exciting being talked to by successful underground artist like Waajeed and Invincible. It was really interesting to hear their stories about where they came from and how it impacted their careers.  With the discussion we had I learned that underground artist are not just artist who could not make it into mainstream but they actually are just as successful as artist like Emeniem. 

The story that Invincible told us about the offers she has received worth $1 million to step out into mainstream was completely respectable. The fact that she turned the deals down instead of molding herself into someone else like they wanted her to do shows how important her art is to her and she is someone that everyone can look up to. It was so true about how once something is successful for someone else such as how they wanted her to be the female Emeniem how labels tries to play on it and keep it going just like the whole "Jersey Shore" which has had other shows just like it, like "Jersey Couture," "Jerseylicious" and so on.

Also after looking up Waajeed I learned that he worked on the project Rize, which I have seen and loved and meeting someone who has done other things like that was totally cool. Even though he did not talk that much he was hilarious and successful which shows that fame does not equal to someones success and that one can reach as many people as they would in the mainstream. 

How Charlie Sheen and Other Celebrities Get Paid to Tweet

Celebrities Getting Paid To Tweet

Twitter has become largely populated with celebrity branding these days and now their is a new addition to 

the family, Charlie Sheen. Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Lamar Odom, Soulja boy, Lauren Conrad 

and 50 cent are just some of the top brand endorsers on Twitter. Every tweet that the celebrities tweet they 

get paid, for instance, every tweet Kim Kardashian and Soulja Boy do they make $10,000. Companies 

result to more advertising on social media because it is much more difficult and a longer process to do it the 

old fashion way such as the Hanes commercial with Michael Jordan because they have to go through a 

process that last months and has to work with all the celebrities "people." But the whole Twitter phenomenon 

has been much more easier because they do not have to go through all of those steps and it gets out to more 

people due to celebrity and the use of social media which almost everyone uses. Basically in this

article, the whole idea surrounds around social media and its use of branding and advertisements 

with celebrities.

Week 7: Facebook (Catfish Film & Blog Assignment)

What makes us put so much trust in social-networking sites?

 I think that Nev put so much trust into Facebook as he did because he truly believed that there was a normal family out there who's daughter was really into art and it was inspiring to him. I personally feel that it is not so much as trust that we put into social-networking sites but more of us not really thinking about things for example, when we receive a friend request or whatever we do not necessarily say "oh, this might be a crazy person" we just go about our day and accept. I think we just think everyone is on the site just as we are just being sociable even though we know we want probably ever talk to them its just social networking "courtesy" to accept. I just think we do not take into account that there are total creepers outside our social networking world and that people can really learn about us from our pages and harm us. 

How come Nev did not see the red flags ?

I do not understand how Nev did not see all the alerting factors that something was quite fishy about the whole Abby situation. First, the whole point that Abby was allowed to email pictures of herself to a grown man is completely unbelievable. I understand the whole thing about how parents do not always have control over their kids and the internet but that whole problem does not even factor into this situation because the mother did have knowledge of it and the fact that any mother would allow that should have been the number red flag to him. Another reason I feel Nev should have known something was up is because of how the whole family just for some reason had to chat with him about Abby most of them saying the same thing and the fact that Abby was never around when he talked to her mother and sister and stuff. I think Nev did not see these alerts because he probably just could not believe that someone would waste all this time to have a ploy like this and actually put there daughter and family in it. 

What are the chances of what happened in the film happening in real life?

 I think that the chances of what happened in the film happening in real life is very high. Since this documentary was over a long period of time I think Nev just felt more and more comfortable with the family as it went on and that if someone did this in real life they could totally form a relationship with a person for their on odd reasons. I have a friend who started dating a boy that she met off of Facebook which is really weird to me. And he has like 12 different pages with different girlfriends on each and I think that if it is so easy for me to find it how come she couldn't.