Celebrity Publicity

In recent years, the amount of information that we know about professional athletes, movie stars, singers, and etc. is incredible.  When you actually pause and think about how much we know about our favorite celebrities, we will realize that we know pretty much everything.  From the new car they just bought, if they are going to have another child in the family, what they are eating, and pretty much everything else about their lives.  Knowing all this is in thanks to the social media sources that we have access to now-a-days.  Not so much with Facebook, or the news, but in particular to Twitter.  Twitter is the hot spot for accessing information and breaking news on your favorite celebrity and what they are doing because they tweet about almost everything in their lives, and Twitter is open for the public to see all of it as well. 
 
Now lets go back in time; remember when we were just kids and we barely knew anything about celebrities except for what was said on TV or if we saw it in person?  When we had no access to all the social media that surrounds us and the use of the Internet with all the celebrity websites that have a lot of "dirt" on them.  That was back in the days when we were not as involved in people lives and had our own privacy compared to today.  I am not saying it is a bad thing that we are connected to celebrities in more ways than we ever were, or because of the social media access that we have.  I just find it interesting how we are essentially a part of these celebrities' lives in a way that we never could have experienced a decade ago.  It just goes to show us how far technlogy has advanced and how social media can make us feel were part of something or someone when we really are not a part of it. 

Sacrificing Social Media

This past Wednesday, if you did not know was Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the 40 days of Lent.  During Lent, many people give up something and I always go on Facebook that day to see how many people say that they are going to give up Facebook and all other social medias.  I respect them if they are able to give them up and not go on them.  Realistically though, why are people so addicted to them that they have to give them up?  They should not be because when you think about it, why are we addicted to other peoples lives and what they are doing?  It does not make sense but that is the way our society is; we love social media so much that we need to give it up for 40 days to try to prove to ourselves that we can mange without it even know most people cannot actually go through with the sacrifice they originally made.  When you think back on the days before social media, we never knew what people were doing at the time.  We had to call them and see if they were not busy and if they wanted to do something with us.  We were perfectly fine back then with that kind of communication and we were fine when we were younger without the access to all the social media.  Therefore, giving up social media should not be as hard as some make it out to be.

Social Media Fire

Through the years, social media has really caught fire and now people are hooked to it. Many people go on it multiple times a day, are on it all day long, or a few rare people go on it once a day or not even once in a day. Many feel that they need to be in the loop of people and what they are doing because we like to know what everyone is doing or what has happened. For instance, once something happens in the world like the death of Whitney Houston, within an hour everyone knows about it because everyone is attached to social media and post about everything. If we may not have heard something important that has happened in the world, we just go on a social media site and there will be something being posted on it to keep us updated. Without social media, a lot of information would not be passed along as fast without it and we would actually have to watch the news or read a newspaper more often than we do.