Why You Shouldn’t Post Your Concert Tickets on Facebook

[morosco]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 11:45am

Why You Shouldn’t Post Your Concert Tickets on Facebook

[Marianne2]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:05pm

I don't even know why anyone would do this, honestly. Isn't it enough to just post a status, like "I'm going to this event, blah, blah blah...?"

Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:14pm

Because people are idiots. They have to post everything. I have a facebook friend who will be posting pictures of his bowel movements soon. He posted photos of himself taken immediately after his car accident-yes- photos taken INSIDE the crumpled car, the ambulance and emergency room.

Last month, he posted several shots of his aunt as she died in the hospital, then followed with at least 50 shots of her funeral.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:29pm

Seriously? That's ridiculous. The last thing I would be thinking about in an accident is taking pictures and posting them.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:35pm

Regarding the tickets, why would you want to announce to an unknown number of people that you're going to be out of your home on a specific date for a specific amount of time?

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 12:39pm

I don't think this is a real threat. The chances that someone who was capable of, and willing to, convincingly forge a ticket would also happen to stumble upon a stranger's facebook pic of a ticket to a show that they would be near and also have an interest in are probably so slim as to be nonexistent.

Also they claim that if the thief wasn't intending to use the ticket themselves they could reproduce dozens of the same barcodes onto fake tickets to sell to unsuspecting buyers. But if they were doing that, why would they need to steal your barcode? They could just sell fakes with a fake barcode they made up.

This reminds me of the paranoid scare emails my sister-in-law spreads around. No offense morosco; my sister-in-law is an otherwise lovely woman.

Updated On: 1/8/13 at 12:39 PM

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:01pm

Oh it's totally a scare-the-people thing. No one has ever downloaded a barcode from facebook to make a fake ticket. But I support circulating this story because "posting your tickets makes you look like a douchebag" is not working.

I tried to tell people posting pictures of children puts them at risk of kidnapping. Because I don't want to see any more pictures of your kid.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:11pm

Joe - I wish I could like your last post several times over.

[ChanceEncounter]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:13pm

Make sure they know Joe that you will kidnap the children. Not just some faceless boogeyman

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:37pm

Several of my child-burdened pals tried to manage their spawn with The Elf on the Shelf- I offered to waken one batch of troublesome youths dressed as Santa, sharpening an ax. I bet that would do the trick.

Posted: 1/8/13 at 1:39pm

I've also tried to spread the urban legend that posting pictures of your food on facebook causes food poisoning.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 2:03pm

I have done this on a rare occasion. But usually when I am already at the concert or after. But I also only have friends and people I know on Facebook. And part of the reason of doing it is the fun and social aspect of it. I have to look at everyones freaking baby pics. So nothing wrong with sharing pics of my Streisand or Pink tickets.

Posted: 1/8/13 at 2:07pm

I do have one friend who posted several old tickets- shows he saw back in the day and (if he could remember) who he saw them with- that was a trip down memory lane!

[DAME]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 2:11pm

Ticket stubs are the best souvenirs. We used to put them in plastic photo frames with magnets and cover our entire fridge with them.

[wexy]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 2:31pm

I have my ticket stub from my first concert; Led Zeppelin at the Nassau Coliseum on Valentine's Day ..... 1975.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 4:44pm

Elf on the Shelf is effing creepy.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/8/13 at 6:13pm

And there is the fact that unless the tickets were scalped, the original owner of the tickets can be easily discovered. And forged tickets can be easily discovered by any box office familiar with whatever ticketing software is used. So unless you're at a massive general seating event, if you've forged tickets and are sitting in your assigned seats, you can be caught and arrested quite easily. Having worked in the business ten years, I've seen it happen. Nothing makes a house staff happier than watching idiots get dragged out of a theatre by the police.

[Calvin]

Posted: 1/9/13 at 11:15am

Though I've yet to see a posted photo of a bowel movement yet, somebody in my circle a few months ago did post a photo of the kidney stones they had just passed. Seeing that was a delightful way to start the day!