So there I was minding my own business conducting my interview with my guest in China this past Sunday. Then as you can see we had an unexpected person jump into the filmstrip and pop onto the main screen until I could scramble around to find the eject button. We were using the Cameraman app so the audience shouldn't have seen this unless my director presented him and he swears he never did. It turns out my directed found two more intruders during the show that I never saw and he ejected them. The only links to the green room I posted were to the Hangout Messages group which only has 6 folks that are my panelists and two Facebook messenger posts to one other panelist and my guest. We have never had this happen before and I was wondering if anyone else has had such an experience. Any guesses as to how this happened? BTW, I did identify the crashers by finding their names in the Hangout mobile app showing who had entered and left the HOA. I don't think any of this was malicious in any way and perhaps it was accidental. I have reached out to the guy that appears in the video posted below on FB messenger and await a response. Curious, no?
https://youtu.be/SrfTEoA-878?t=20m15s
Gary Solomon Somewhere along the way that link to the green room got shared. Perhaps someone meant to share the YouTube link for a friend to watch and sent the wrong link to them but that is about the only way I know of that such a thing could happen.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Hatchett I would tend to agree with you but it just seems so unlikely that happened. Especially when it turned out 3 separate people got the link. It's not a major deal and it really didn't affect the show other than being a humorous incident. I guess we'll see if it happens again. Thanks for your response.
ReplyDeleteVery weird. There was someone else who reported that happening in the Hangouts help forum, but we never got to the bottom of it - seemed like the link being shared is probably why.
ReplyDeletePeggy K yes, It is the only way technically I know of for this to occur but it just seems so odd that 3 different people came in nearly at the same time. I would love for that guy to respond to my message just to see how he was able to join.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I really enjoyed your session on YouTube with Michael Daniels. Very informative!
Thank you for the kind words Gary Solomon
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it Gary Solomon !
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