Friday, June 6, 2014

Snarky Celebrity Gossip Has Taken Root

By Sally Delacruz


People relate or talk about celebrities more easily than neighbors and friends. Snarky celebrity gossip is seen in almost all our day activities. Many associate it with fascination obsession people have with celebrities. This kind of fascination with people that are famous is something that has been around us for a long time.

Today when we meet our friends, family and relatives we take most of the time talking about famous figures. They have turned out to be the glue of social fabric. Things have changed people no longer stay in the communal well or at the village square to connect to one another. Instead we use talks about celebrities to make us feel connected to each other.

Celebrities have taken the center of our lives. At home and work we are always discussing them. This is more evident at work places. When people bounce onto one another around water coolers they mainly share the latest celebrity gossip they have heard. It has become impossible to interact with other people without talking about our favorite celebrities.

It is not easy to understand why celebrities have taken the center of our lives. We cannot tell what is so catching about famous people that make them appear irresistible in the eyes of the public. They are several questions that arise when we look at the issue in this perspective. Some of them include; do these people we adore lead a different life? Do people magnify them because they seem to have a glamorous lifestyle? Whatever the case we all have our own different reasons of looking at some these people as the favorite.

People have different things in mind concerning popular public figures. In a sense most of them have turned into small new gods. Admirers wish they could live like their celebrated figures. They often fantasize about their talents, wealth, beauty and popularity and wish they could be the same. However it is interesting to discover that most of these fans with that the figures could fall.

We are always interested to know the latest about our favorite celebrity. This is the main reason people keep watching shows, entertainment programs, reading materials and internet sites that have information about them. A recent research by publication companies and advertising firms showed that they make a lot of money weekly from publications that talk about celebrities. They discovered that people could keep on buying reading materials, watching programs and turning to social sites as long there is some celebrity news.

The increasing rate of celebrity gossip has attracted the attention of various researchers in anthropology, linguistics, evolutionary psychology, social history and social psychology. The topic about celebrities and lifestyle has drawn even philosophers into the debate. Although in the past talks about famous appeared okay whether positive or negative of late it has acquired pejorative connotations.

Celebrity talk has both positive and negative impact to the society. Some of the positive psychological and social functions include: facilitating group bonding, relationship building, reinforcing shared values and clarification of social status and position. Some philosophers claim that such talks give us knowledge on politics and other issues of life.




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