Tuesday, February 10, 2009

We're All Celebrities?

This was an interesting read mainly because I think we can all relate to it. We all have a Facebook or a Myspace, and look what we're writing on right now... a blog site. I must say that I disagree with the author though. I don't think this makes us celebrities in anyway at all. If anything I get annoyed with people on Facebook or Myspace. Half the status updates and bulletins I see are pointless thoughts, ideas or sentences that I'm sorry I wasted my time reading. I could care less about a great majority of the things that pop up on my screen while surfing the networking sites.
I will say however that I agree a little bit more on the blog site concept. On these websites we just type away, revealing our thoughts about things we've seen or read. And then we have to go back and read our fellow classmates' blogs and comment on them. So we have to pay attention to each other and express our feelings together. That makes it a little bit more "celeb-like" I suppose.
Another thing I wanted to comment on is the privacy issue. I know on sites like Myspace, certain things that we don't really want to get out end up getting out. But this is our faults. Myspace doesn't require you to put anything on your profile that you don't want on there. You could have a blank one with no pictures and just music if you wanted. These sites only invade our privacy because we let them. We're the ones typing in the information.

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