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These days people can easily express and share their opinions about certain subjects via SNS such as Twitter and Facebook. Obviously, entertainers were one of those who actively put their opinions regarding controversial issues, and I believe that those famous people played a pretty important role in making the younger generations than older ones get interest in these issues.
First of all, younger people pay attention to and care about the opinions and thoughts of celebrities than older generations. This can be seen among the teenagers most of the times, since teens tend to have a longing for certain celebrity they favor and idolize them; hence, feel curiosity towards the thoughts and perspectives he or she has and easily are influenced by these thoughts. For example, an entertainer brought up an issue about animal abuse, and left a sentence saying animals should be treated well since they are also living creatures that have feelings on her own homepage, with a photo she took with her pet dog together. This was noticed by many people who agreed with her view and took part in spreading it to more people, and most of them were teenagers and young people in their 20's, who cared about this celebrity much.
In addition, younger generations are more familiar to using electronic devices and sharing ideas through them, which older people usually are not very interested in. With the drastic development of Informational Technology, younger people were born and grew up with electronic gadgets as more options were attached to them year by year, and ostensibly many celebrities who dominantly use SNS based on the Internet as a way to express their ideas are the young ones who consist this generation. As a result, younger people would look into celebrities' opinions more and be much more exposed to opinions of celebrities than older ones who hardly get a chance to do this; and eventually, younger ones who frequently watched famous people's views would be affected at least to some extent.
To sum up, with the drastic improvement in technology combined with usual attention of younger generations towards their objects of observation, famous, unreachable and respected people, it made the celebrities' perspectives very influential to younger people. This point seems obvious, if it has acted rather as a negative or positive way to us. |