| The internet has had a massive impact on fans | | | | created a massive online industry. Companies want |
| reaching out to celebrities. Before the internet, fans | | | | celebs to tweet advertisements of their products, or |
| would be lucky to get a chance to see Elvis Presley | | | | integrate advertisements contextually into an update. |
| outside of a concert somewhere, and even luckier to | | | | What better way to promote a product than to |
| ever get a signed shirt, or have a question answered. | | | | have Lady Gaga update her Facebook status about it |
| Hearing Elvis talk would be something to happen at | | | | so it hits all of her fans live feeds and also twitter |
| concerts, or during broadcasted interviews. It wasn't | | | | followers. Commercials have nothing on this. |
| a common occurrence. | | | | Mega electro producer Deadmau5 holds weekly Q&A |
| The internet has changed this dramatically, in a good | | | | sessions with his fans over Stickam. Stickam is a live |
| way. First it started with celebrities creating web | | | | broadcasting video chat site, meaning thousands of |
| pages and blogs that fans could access and get tour | | | | fans get to type to Deadmau5 and ask him questions |
| updates, interviews, news, etc. You could email | | | | while looking at him in a chair answering all of them. |
| actors or musicians and sometimes you would get a | | | | Deadmau5, having always been quite internet savvy, |
| reply! | | | | is one of few celebrities to start doing this. It's |
| With the creation of web 2.0 websites and social | | | | amazing really, what he is doing for his fans. Whether |
| networking websites, this whole process has been | | | | it is questions about his next single or next tattoo, he |
| nearly perfected. Websites such as Twitter, | | | | takes a genuine effort to read them and answer. |
| Facebook, YouTube and Google have changed how | | | | Before the internet a celebrity Q&A would have |
| people perceive celebrities. It is now uncommon for a | | | | been something not only rare, but hard to become a |
| celebrity not to have a Facebook or Twitter account. | | | | part of as well. Now you can do it from your |
| Most celebs are micro-blogging, sometimes updating | | | | computer chair. |
| by the hour. Not only are they updating people with | | | | There has been an increasing gap between celebrities |
| news related to them, they update with personal | | | | and regular people. People tend to get out of hand |
| messages and thoughts on their mind. A celebrity | | | | and think celebrities are divine, and bow down to |
| having the ability to share ideas with fans and get | | | | them a bit too much. The internet has helped close |
| feedback makes an incredible difference. | | | | this gap a bit, with status updates and tweets about |
| Fans have an exponentially higher chance of getting | | | | personal ideas and such, people are beginning to see |
| in touch with their favourite celebrities and just the | | | | that celebrities are just regular people after all. |
| concept of social networking with celebrities has | | | | |
