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Ticketmaster Lets You Sit With Facebook Friends
An anonymous reader writes "Ticketmaster has added Facebook integration to its interactive seat maps. The new feature allows you to share your live event plans by tagging yourself into your seat, and thus allowing your Facebook friends to see where you are sitting. If you have already purchased tickets for an event, you can also tag yourself at a later date."
Now all my Facebook friends can get raped WITH me! Thanks, Ticketmaster!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Too bad I will never take advantage of it, because I despise TicketMaster. Also, I don't have any Facebook friends.
For only an additional 13.95, you can sit with your friends that we pull from your facebook, along with ALL your personal data! (Disclaimer: this is an assumption)
An area without Facebook users?
Adding all those unknown people on facebook seemed like a good idea at the time, its never too late to un-friend.
way to broadcast exactly where you will be. is everyone on facebook so starved out for attention they have to do this??
...But I'm going to book my tickets with the friends I want to sit with. I could just imagine that one awkward person on your friends list coming and sitting next to you.
I absolutely can not believe that it took some stupid facebook integration bs to actually get this done. It's ridiculous that ticketmaster hasn't allowed you to choose seats all along. Every time I get tickets, you get to choose from 1 of 3 broad regions (main floor, lower bowl, and upper bowl). That's it. You can't even choose a specific section, much less a row or seat. A few months ago, a friend wanted tickets for a specific section of the arena, and we actually had to wait 4 days before enough tickets had sold that it began selling in the section he wanted. That's absolutely ridiculous.
Finally Facebook integration leads to something useful. Now, I'm not about to give those delta-bravos access to my Facebook data, but still it's pretty cool for people who don't care about their friends or their own privacy.
Good luck getting more than two adjacent seats without purchasing them at the same time.
A better feature would be to allow people to swap seats with other people (within a section), instead of trying to do it at the concert when everyone's trying to get to their seat.
Man that will be so much easier when you don't have to search a crowd for someone.
What if I want to sit with my Google+ friends?
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Now it will be much easier to stalk that cute girl... I mean, conveniently end up in the seat next to her.
So glad we're doing more to aid the stalkers and other folks you don't really want to be around. I'm sure this will be handled with all of the responsibility and good judgment we see exercised by companies handling personal information.
Fuck Facebook.
Fuck Ticketmaster.
Seth
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In my experience, if you want seats next to people you know, you have to buy up a whole bunch at the same time, and even then, it's usually hard to get more then 2 seats together, if that. Mainly if what you are going to is popular, or like a one night show.
Be seeing you...
make the fucking website usable, I might be able to buy tickets. I've only tried to buy from it once and it was like getting kicked in the face a few times and I got about as much out of it.
Log in at 9 for tickets going on sale at 9, website fails to load, website eventually loads, tickets sold out. Its not even 5 past 9. Why not just use a bloody email sign up lottery system? Enter email, you can sign up and enter your friends emails to ensure you get seats together because the system can process it that way once all entered on same form. If your submission number gets picked in lottery then you all get the seats unless there is not enough seats left for your group in which case it picks a new number until it finds a match.
Why can't such a system just be put in place over the current everybody rush for the doors and see if you all fit through mechanism? Isn't this the sort of moronic real world problem that the Internet allows us to solve? Why replicate the real world problem onto the Internet?
This ability (choosing specific seats, not Facebook integration) was built into their POS systems at least since '99. Back then I worked in a record store with a Ticketmaster terminal, and you could definitely look for specific seats. You needed a detailed floor plan of the venue, since the terminal was ASCII, but you could do it.
I'm guessing it'll be somewhere around $11.95 per ticket.
... the service YOU want maybe... Since every scalper/hacker knows how to game the Ticketmasterd system, all I get is the opportunity to support an insane price while the band I might like to see get hosed.
That's not a deal I have any desire, whatsoever, to have take advantage of me.
Every time I've used TM, the best you could do is choose a price level and I automatically got assigned the "best" seats in the corresponding section. Will they actually hold seats around the ones bought long enough for one's friends to notice and buy them, or is this one of those "Just because you can do something clearly means you should" cases?
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I hate Ticketmaster, and I hate Facebook. I use both as reluctantly and as infrequently as can be managed. To those who cite all kinds of potential unintended consequences of this, I would only point out that the people who hapilly and willingly allow themselves to be used by these two entities probably deserve whatever comes of it.
Great news! Now if they'll just realize that charging extra for the privilege of printing out your tickets from email is fucking asinine.
How about, since there's no way (AFAIK) to "enemy" someone on Facebook, if I set up a "circle of evil" on Google+ and could use that to AVOID people who I don't want to socialise?
Whilst it sounds dumb -- why would I have any relationship with such people? -- I might just wish to avoid bumping into people from work when I'm with my friends.
IMHO this is would be *VASTLY* more useful than being able to sit with friends... if they're real friends, I prolly would've arranged something with them anyway.
The cable companies make me hate cable, which by all rights I should love.
Ticketmaster makes me feel like a tool when I buy tickets, with their exhorbitant fees. So I hate buying tickets, which by all rights I should love.
Nice job. Ripe for competition, I think.
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