Elle’s online party scene
Item 1: Invitations
Facebook is one of the newest crazes among college students. It is a networking website developed originally for college students to make friends or keep in touch with old ones. The website is made up of user profiles and many applications linking each profile to thousands of activities, events, clubs, common interest groups, etc. One way in which this site has become a huge network for the party scene is the development of an online invitation system. Users can create an event, which is usually some type of party, and provide a description of location, time, place, and often theme. Facebook allows the party ‘host’ to send out these notifications on a large scale, often to entire groups of friends within their networks. Usually some type of outrageous picture(s) is(are) included in the invitation to guests a preview of what will be taking place.
Many of these parties are not even in celebration of a specific event, such as a birthday. Theme parties tend to be a trend among college students. Some of these party themes include: football pros and cheerleading hoes, highlighter parties, decades parties, professors and school girls, CEO’s and office hoes, and many more. The one thing I noticed about the majority of the titles of these theme parties is that most of them allude to the fact that females should be dressed provocatively. Most of the pictures tagged with the upcoming event also include pictures of examples of how to dress, including a few pictures of scantily clad girls.