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Nowadays, it is
said that people are too much interested in the personal lives of celebrities.
Many of celebrities get stressed about it, and some of them even escape from
mass. It seems to me, however, that it is not that excessive attention. It is
the celebrities themselves that show their privacies to people, and since they
are very influential they should be careful.
First,
celebrities are highly related to cultural contents. They show songs, movies,
dramas, clothes, make-up styles, etc. to people. These contents are being more
and more depending on personal lives of the celebrities, since they use Social
Network Services for promotion these days. They show those contents resolved
into their personal lives; for example, they upload pictures of themselves
wearing a new sweater, and even directly ask their fans to visit their friend’s
new store. In my case, I am also connected with a member of a famous band through
Twitter. I feel friendlier with him reading many about his privacies, and
sometimes promoted by his direct or indirect advertisements.
Moreover, as
celebrities are literally ‘famous people’, they have great effects on mass. Especially,
young people tend to be more vulnerable to behaviors of them. Many youths adore
their favorite singers or actors, and often get absorbed easily. Even though
their favorite idols are immoral, some of young fans blindly pursue them and
even mimic them. Many of celebrities complain that people blame them too much about
only a small fault, even that mistake is from their private lives. However,
what if those fanatic youths imitate that fault? For instance, a few years ago,
a girl of a Korean singer group was bullied by the other group members and
finally quit the group. And soon, elementary school students began to do just
the same thing, and the bullying even got a nickname which is same as the name
of that singer group. To summarize, while some celebrities get nervous about being too much exposed to people, the mass is not that interested in lives of celebrities. People just see what they provide, which is often mixed with their routines. And when the released personal lives of celebrities show faults with bad effects, the mass – as consumers – tries to correct them.
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