Virtual Concerts have Become a Popular Way to See Your Favorite Artists in 2020

Here in 2020 we have gotten a chance to utilize a lot of things in the online world that allow us to connect with each other even while at a distant location. Examples include Zoom video calls that are used for business purposes, Skype has been used for both family and business purposes as well. Facebook has a live feature that you can use to stream video to chat with your friends and family and this social media company’s platform has become a big part of concerts held across America for music artists. My family uses the Zoom app for meetings with clients that would normally be held in person, I most recently got on a call to chat with a friend of mine as well. It’s great that we live in such a time where even though we are not close to each other we can still connect via these services.

I watch Facebook live often and see how concerts have taken to a new way of gaining an audience through viewers on a video, my comments I leave are usually requests or a shout-out to the artist for his or her awesome work during the show. Sometimes I see comments disabled on things like friends personal live videos because they go live for the sole purpose of watching, I’ll be honest and say I have not used this Facebook service as of yet but might whenever time allows, YouTube I’m sure has a service where you can do live videos too but mostly I see companies doing this instead of my friends. Although the virtual concert experience is not the same as in person it serves as a nice alternative, bands that have done online live concerts include Blue October, ZZ Top and Ozzy Osbourne among others. You look at where we are today and you might think to yourself “This is truly an event of future times, compared to living in the years of the 80s and 90s I can watch it here on a YouTube feed”. If you look at today’s online landscape you see streaming services popping up everywhere, back in 1985 you would still be using the dialup connection which is much slower and not enough bandwidth to carry today’s complex capabilities. I don’t miss those days at all because along with slow speed every time the phone was picked up I was kicked offline.

You take technology from 1984 and move into 2020 and you have a lot of advancements. Who knows where we’ll be 30 years from now, only time will tell.

-Tristan