With everyone’s busy lives, it is not always possible to be in front of your television for initial airtime of your favorite television show. Luckily, MTV is always willing to put up full episodes online for their audiences to catch up on during their convenience on their computers.
While I am watching my missed episode online I start to notice moving texts to the right side of the screen. As I look I begin realizing that a side-box chat room is running a thread for me to read as I watch the show. MTV places an interactive and instant chat room to be provided for all of the viewers who are currently watching the same episode online to comment and talk to each other while watching the episode online.
This is the most instant technological way to audiences to comment their thoughts that I have seen thus far. While blogs, comment boxes, and Twitter let audiences interact after an event occurs, MTV has provided an outlet for audiences to interact while the event occurs. Not only are the viewers commenting for the stars to see, the audiences are speaking and reacting to each other.
As I was reading I came to find that a lot of the people had already known each other. I went to other television shows to see if the comment box was there as well and if audiences are interacting as much as they were in others. The leading chat with the most conversation was for 16 and Pregnant. It seemed as though a lot of teen mothers were the ones on the site talking to each other. A lot of them were pregnant or already had a child. There shared their personal stories and information with each other. They also comment on the episode as well, speaking of how the new mother was handling the experience compared to how they had handled the experience.
People can also comment below the playing episode in the usual style that blogs and other sites allow people to comment.
Comments generally follow the format on the one below:
Kobe commented | 17 hours ago
hi i'm kobe i have watched all of these 16 and pregnant episodes and i'm 13. I am not looking for a child right now. I just wanted 2 tell you that you have really inspired me in this journey!! Thank you so much
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