Making Big Brother History on Blog24

Making Big Brother History

Posted by Chris
On June 01, 2008
Categories: Featured, Social Networks

As the new UK series of Big Brother looms all the affiliated hype and nonsense increases online. This hype seems more intense this year with the increasing popularity of social networking websites such as Facebook. Although this just could be because I have not sought such enthusiasm on the web with previous Big Brother series.

You may ask, “why I did this year?”. Good question, but here is the reason:

A couple of nights ago I was thinking about the power of social networking and how to explore this. Then it hit me — use social networking to influence the outcome of a reality television show which relies on viewers’ votes.

Big Brother is the perfect candidate for an experiment in social network power. Social websites such as Facebook and Myspace share a large portion of the demographic with the Big Brother audience. Perhaps this is a sweeping statement drenched in stereotypical presumption but I still feel that is fairly accurate.

Creating a Facebook Group

Moments after thinking about influencing the Big Brother result I created a group on Facebook entitled ‘The Big Brother 9 Winner‘.

The description of the group briefly describes the idea:

This group has just one aim. To get enough people to make the 9th contestant that enters the Big Brother house on June 5th, 2008 the winner.

As this ambitious experiment relies a large group of people I urged my FB contacts to invite theirs too in the hope that the group would grow exponentially. Huh!

Raising Awareness

Promoting the group and the idea is an ongoing task. As this experiment is about social networking most of the promotion has been via Facebook and Myspace, with ocassional posts to Twitter and therefore FriendFeed and my underused Tumblr page.

Other than the social networking websites I have created bbwinner.blog24.co.uk too which might be used for further promotion in the near future. This blog entry is also a form of promotion.

So far, the response has been minimal and an intensive effort will be made to get more people to join the Facebook group and hopefully build a community of people who want to influence the result of Big Brother.

Big Brother starts on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 and contestant number 9 will be revealed. No matter who it is, male or female, idiot or genius, annoying or pleasant — making them the winner will be a major summer project.

Join me to make Big Brother history by joining The Big Brother 9 Winner.

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