Friday, September 17, 2010
BarCasts, PG rated? I don't think so.
I work at a sports bar/resturant where a crowd of all ages comes in. We have this interactive network called BarCast that streams on one of our TVs. I had never heard of it until I started working there about a year and a half ago and at first I thought it was cool and it seemed some what innocent except for your occassional post or picture. On their website they claim their content is PG which I could agree with a year and a half ago but now I try not look at the screen. There are endless pictures of half naked women up, with their back sides hanging out of their g strings, the language and content of the posts on their live feed is offensive and their streaming videos of street fighting and other nonsense. If thats what I wanted to watch then I'd search Kimbo Slice on YouTube or go to a strip club. Its now embarrassing that we have it in our resturant and it seems to be the topic of many conversations around the bar and its all mostly negative; not to mention theres not much on there I'd want my 13 year old and younger guests to see. I feel bad for people who's friends put up an embarrassing picture of them because oh yea, there is no way of getting it down. In my opinion BarCast needs to clean it up or have it in 18+ environments.
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I have never heard of this before! That is kind of crazy.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused, didn't you say you work at a bar? Who is bringing there children into the bar section of this resteraunt. I dunno if it was being broadcast throughout the resteraunt I would have to agree with you that they would need to keep with there rating.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of a Barcast, but i can see your frustration with it as an employee. It seems that social media is taking over the world, and we've studied that, but this is a whole new variation of media that comes across as down right disturbing. What you're saying is that- people can watch whats going on at your bar from their homes? What is the point of that? That invades personal space!
ReplyDeleteYeah i have also never heard of this, and its interesting but at the same time i dont know why they would have this in a place like that. i agree with yo. They should definitely clean it up and make it PG.
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