How much would you pay to see Seal in concert or have dinner with a real renown chef? For less than the cost of a Grande Frappuccino, $2.99 per month, the new social network NameDrop promises that. The platform itself and its accessibility via mobile applications has yet to be seen, but something about this seems very salesy. People follow actual (or cyber) celebrities on twitter because of the organic feel of the network (wowzers! I can’t believe @s_c_ @replied me!). Once celebrities get openly compensated for participation, how does this differ from a press release or paid meet-and-greet?

PR Newswire reports:

How can you be guaranteed that the content found on a social networking site is from the actual celebrity it claims to be from and avoid the celebrity imposter problems of other social media sites? And where can you find once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to meet your favorite celebrities, join them on tour or at a game, or maybe even earn a job working beside them? By becoming a subscriber of the exclusive new social networking website NameDrop(TM), you can do it all NameDrop.com.

Here is what sets NameDrop apart from other social networking websites: *All celebrities and influential people are verified before they are allowed to post on NameDrop. *All information posted on NameDrop is approved by the celebrities or their authorized representatives. *NameDrop offers unprecedented opportunities for celebrity interaction. For example – NameDrop is giving a subscriber and a friend round-trip airfare to Australia to be the personal guests of Grammy Award-winning artist Seal on his concert tour. They will dine with him and the band, attend sound check, sit in VIP seats and then join him for the after-party.

Cat Cora, the first and only female winner of Iron Chef and Executive Chef of Bon Appetit Magazine, will fly in to prepare a dinner party for 12 at the home of a lucky NameDrop subscriber.