According to Franklin Paul, (Reuters), the video game “Grand Theft Auto 4” surpassed any Hollywood blockbuster movie in sales for its first week with over $500 million. The very successful game is everything parents don’t want their kids to be exposed to—drinking and driving, violence, and hidden sex scenes. Pirates of the Caribbean was Hollywood’s largest blockbuster movie pulling in a sum of $406 million, which still doesn’t come close to monies earned by “The Grand Theft Auto 4” video game series in its first week. This is to show that interactivity is everything in entertainment. Once there is a platform for interactivity, there is a platform for making big money! The social networking websites like Facebook.com, Myspace.com, Hi5.com, and Friendster.com are no different when it comes to providing a platform for interactive entertainment albeit, social entertainment. Now we can see why these types of websites are so successful.
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