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.