▶ Your Answer :
It is arguable whether the opinions of
celebrities are important to younger people, comparing the case of older
people. I believe that it can be a big thing to the younger people rather than
the older people, considering the fact that younger people is more interested
in what celebrities' do and younger people are more easily accessible to
celebrities' lives.
The primary reason is that teenager to
young adult is the major age of having interest in celebrities. In general,
people who are young eager to be succeed in their future life. In the process
of illustrating their future success, they model the celebrities who they want
to be. Hence, modeling celebrities naturally leads them to have a deep interest
in all the things related to the celebrities. In other words, younger people
can be easily affected than older people. For instance, last year, a famous
Korean singer praised a particular vitamin supplements, and after the day all
the supplements are sold out. The interest thing was that the main age of purchaser
were younger people. For another anecdote, after a famous basketball player
said about North Korea’s president, most of conversation topics among teenagers
were about the president and North Korea for a while. Considering the fact that
younger people in South Korea are not interested in North Korea, it was
interesting phenomenon. However, there were not fluctuations among old age’s dialogue
at the same time. In regards, the opinions of celebrities make more impact on
younger people than older people.
Furthermore, it is not easy to access what
celebrities do to old people, but it is simple to younger people. Nowadays,
most of information is shared by internet. Celebrities' opinions are not the
exception. For general older people, using computer or cell phone is not easy
due to its complicated interface and small characters. Thus, their pace of
contacting celebrity news is far slow than younger people. It is relative to
the amount of news. The more acceptable to the news is the easier to be
influenced. For example, when the celebrities' news is on the internet, four
fifth comments are written by younger people. Another example, most of my
neighborhood who are over fifty years old even do not know how to write a
comment on the internet news. This shows the fact that celebrities' saying are
more important to younger people than the older people.
As I have stated above, because younger
people are more interested in celebrities' doing and they are more close to the
information about celebrities, I firmly believe that opinions of celebrities
are relatively big deal for younger people.
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