Twitter has been just what the doctor ordered for dying and
up coming celebs around the world. The idea of 140 characters to explain
whatever you're doing seems to have taken off in the past 4 years like a
rocket. Millions of people are now using twitter and I've found that its a lot
more interesting when celebrities live their lives through twitter rather than
the general public, but why is that? We all know nothing beats a good public
celebrity feud and we all lap it up, but when it’s two people arguing that we
know from work, school or university we just find it mundane and irritating and
we find it whiny and annoying when our friends complain about boyfriends or how
bad their lives are over Twitter or Facebook.
In my generation Y knowledge of social networking sites, I
feel as though 99% of people posting statuses or various things about their
life want to be noticed and are mainly doing it for attention or gratification.
As the saying goes "everybody wants to be somebody" (I'm not actually
sure if that's a saying, but moving along.) What I mean by this is people
obviously idolise the celebrities they 'like' or 'follow' they post meaningless
updates and or photos about themselves and people revere that and think if they
post something similar they'll have millions of followers or thousands of
people commenting on what they post. Wrong. I feel as though it is fun when
people post various updates about things in their life but when people take it
overboard its not enjoyable for anyone. I think its common fact that no one
cares if you're a nobody. Plain and simple. You can write as much as you like
about yourself on twitter and try to get people to like you but the chances of
you actually becoming famous from that is next to nil.
But in the world of being a celebrity, the likes of Kim Kardashian (who has basically done nothing for humanity but is somehow
amazingly rich and famous) they can post “dyed my hair! xox” and one million
people will comment or ‘retweet’ and be like “OMG, ur so beutful Kim! Xoxoxo”
(misspelled word intended) a thousand times over, yet if I were to tweet about
dying my hair, I’d have one person be like “cool story.”
Pictured: Kim Kardashian with a pouty photo from her
twitter page.
Oh what a brilliant life she must have, so much money for doing so little. How do I get this job?
Oh what a brilliant life she must have, so much money for doing so little. How do I get this job?
So, why do we find celebrities so much more exciting than
our own friends?
Is it a form of escapism?
Do we all just hate our lives that much that we find
interest in people above us?
I think focusing on other peoples lives makes us feel better
about our own, especially celebrity divorces or celebrity mishaps, we love it
because it makes us feel normal in comparison, public twitter fights make us
feel as though these big celebrities with millions of money and fans still can
get cellulite or can still have bad days, like us and them living publicly
through twitter is like having them as your friend or making you feel like you
have a connection with these people you’ve never met and will probably never
meet in a social manner.
Social media for celebrities is probably the best business
tool they could ever have. Celebrities have reinvented themselves because of
the likes of Twitter and they know that. So whether we like it or not we will
continue to see the rise of celebrities and their updates throughout our lives,
as well as our boring Twitter and Facebook friends as well... sigh.
