Tuesday, April 01st, 2008 - 7:30PM at The Hollywood Hill Event Center, Hollywood
Look up the majority of studio presidents, executives, and producers, and you'll be hard-pressed to find them with a Facebook profile. Even if they have one, the chances they've added their friends or plan to is exceedingly slim. The reality is that Hollywood always has been a highly-secretive town where relationships are everything, control over information is key, and secrecy is a modus operandi.
But the new generation of industry professionals are starting to use Facebook, and the generation below them are Facebook addicts. These two generations will be the first to rise up the ranks with highly-public profiles of their lives, their hobbies, their tastes, and perhaps most informative - their closest friends.
Is this paradigm shift a nightmare for PR professionals and agents who have to control and shape the careers of the next Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, or Bob Iger?...who might have made a not-so-hot YouTube video in their youth that just might make it onto TMZ.com? At the same time, social network sites appear to be great catalysts for launching careers when you're starting out and you need to get exposure for your talent. Since corporations are starting to mine this data for details on their employees, are up-and-coming executives going to find this invasion of their privacy impacting their career.
How do you balance the benefits and risks of sharing so much personal information throughout the course of your life? We'll get some opinions from a range of industry heavyweights. Speakers will be announced shortly.
$10 Cover. Complimentary Cocktails & Parking. Pre-order Meal with RSVP.