# What Facebook Events Are Really Saying

- Link: https://chatterblast.com/blog/what-facebook-events-are-really-saying/
- Published: 2017-12-06T17:43:05-05:00
- Author: chatterblastteam

Hello readers,

If you’re like me and love Facebook event groups (and expletives) then you are in
for a real treat considering this blog has a whole lot of both. Most bad words will
be censored, but forewarned, parental guidance is advised for the peanut gallery.

I’d like to start off with a little story that is nothing short of heartbreaking.
It all began at the end of October. Pretty Lights, aka Derek Vincent Smith aka an
electronic music magician, had announced that he would be playing a New Year’s Eve
show at The Fillmore. Incredible. This never happens. This man sells out arenas.
Naturally, me and my fellow blaster, you might know her as Anais Cooper-Hackman,
made a pact to camp out by our computers and be the first of many to purchase these
golden tickets

**What happens next may shock you. **

The first artist presale drops. Sells out in seconds. Live Nation presale drops.
The site crashes, I’m redirected and the tickets sell out within seconds. General
admission sale drops at 10:00 AM on October 27th. Tickets sold out at 10:00:01. 
I was infuriated. The amount of four letter words that escaped my mouth that day
would make your grandmother cry.

Now you may argue with me, “Gianna, this is Pretty Lights we’re talking about. Of
course he’s going to sell out in seconds!” But no dear reader you must hear me out.
Thanks to Facebook event groups, I was able to get to the bottom of this horrendous
incident.

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_There it is in all it’s glory. The event group that started it all. _

I like concerts. I attend a lot of them. Even if I have no intention of ever stepping
foot in the venue, I always say that I’m interested on the Facebook event page because
I like getting updates through Facebook just in case I change my mind. And well,
when I tell you that this page blew up –

It BLEW UP.

Apparently we weren’t the only people who couldn’t get tickets. Live Nation doesn’t
protect its site against bots. Knowing this event was a big deal, scalpers wiped
the site clean and sold tickets for almost triple the face value on StubHub. This
left many faithful fans ticketless and incredibly angry, swearing to put an end 
to this vicious cycle and refusing to give in to the scammers.

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_Hi Anais._

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And those are just a few examples of people being tame. I could show you the real
heavy-duty, x-rated stuff, but I’d like to keep my job. Moving on.

The beautiful thing about social media that most of us forget about since we’re 
too busy instagramming our lattes or trying to take a hot selfie (guilty) is that
it connects us in ways that the world couldn’t before technology made it’s debut.
Although people are ranting and raving and cursing and calling out organizations
all over this page, they’re standing unified against an injustice they believe they
have witnessed. These people all have one thing in common: the music they are now
being deprived of.

What I thought was pretty incredible was that these people stood together on other
platforms as well. They kept pushing for fairness and eventually took their efforts
to Twitter where Live Nation, The Fillmore and Pretty Lights himself was mentioned
time and time again.

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Of course The Fillmore and Live Nation remained silent during all of this chaos.
But out of the darkness there was light. Specifically the pretty kind:

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Aaaand then of course there was this:

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_Thanks for getting our hopes up. *sobs_

Anyway, even though I was never able to get my PL tickets, the moral of the story
here is that when people stand together and make a ruckus, something as simple as
a Facebook event page can initiate a reaction and ultimately some sort of change.

Sadly, there was nothing Pretty Lights could do about the scalper problem even though
he wanted to, but at least my faith in the internet and humanity was restored due
to the connections that were being formed online.

Oh and one last thing.

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