After reading this article I realized how important online activities are for businesses, organizations, companies, and in this case, it is very important for the museums. I guess I never realized how important Facebook and other social media networks are for those things. It promotes what they want promoted and brings the faces to their doors. I just have always thought of Facebook being about socializing with friends or stalking people’s pictures and lives. This can really be beneficial to the companies and museums and I am sure that more and more people will want to get involved with posting their products or advertising on the social media networks. For example, on Facebook you can be a ‘fan’ of something like the St. Louis Cardinals or Taco Bell (two I know I am a fan of on Facebook), and you can know facts about these things right on the homepage or it can tell you which of your friends are fans too. And as for Twitter, you can follow different organizations to get information, facts, deals, discounts, etc. All these things can bring potential customers and new faces into their stores or museums. If their motives are to get people through their doors and online web sites and social media networks are helping, then they should keep working to improve their sites and bring the people out to the museum.
The first impression I had when reading this article was that these online sites and social media networks would just keep people out of the museums seeing as they could get all the information they need right online with just the click of a button. People may be fans of the online things the museum is offering but that may result in lower turn-outs in the actually museum. Today everyone is about being ‘virtual’ and all the things the internet can offer and I think the museum is kind of an escape from today’s world. I’m not sure how I feel about all the activities online, but if it is helping them bring more people through their doors, then more power to them. I do think that having people use and interact with their handheld devices while at the museum could really distract them from the actual art and disrupt the beauty of being at the museum itself. I do believe that having wireless internet throughout the museums is a pro because many people have art classes or blogs about art and being able to participate in those things while at the museum could really help their projects and work about the art. Like we all know, everyone gets distracted from their work or from reality because of all the new technologies like Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc., so this could also be negative. They need to be able to stay on task while experiencing the art.
People will do whatever they need to in order to get potential customers in front of them. The web has created many possibilities for this. More companies and businesses will be putting their name on the internet and social media networks to try and get ahead of the game. It has been working for many people and will continue to grow as the internet gets more advanced and even more popular than it is today. The ‘sharing’ between the online community and the actual community might just be what every company or organization is in need of.
At first I used to think that all of the advertisments on webpages were pointless. They where like spam and I did not want to see them or read about them. That is not the case now. Advertisments have a lot of information in them. With advertisments there are a lot of things being promoted. I also like how websites offer things that you can like and comment on because it gives you some say.
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