Facebook:
Heroes and the
celebrity cults
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes
and from every stretch of land. I think Facebook has been able to actually
relate us to those heroes. Everything travels so much faster through today’s
technology. Now the person who has cancer is the new hero but tomorrow it may
be a man that pulled a car off of someone. It’s amazing to know what we the
people can actually face and how our heroes are formed. Just today I heard of a
lifeguard who had been fired because he saved someone that was out of his
jurisdiction. They then decided to give him the key to the city. Facebook has
been a huge contributing factor in helping to get the word out fast. Its social
media and everyone reads it. It has become our daily newspaper.
Being a celebrity is not something
I would want. Even by knowing a celebrity you can become famous. The paparazzi
follow you everywhere and you never get any privacy. Even on Facebook
celebrities have to be careful what they say or what pictures they have up
because there is always someone out there waiting to exploit them. Take an
innocent picture and turn it into something ugly or fictitious. Their moms and
dads, brothers and sisters, girlfriends and boyfriends all have to be careful
of what they do or say on Facebook. There is just no privacy for these people
they are stalked everyday through Facebook and many other sites.
Certainly Mark Zuckerberg, with the movie and then the IPO, has been in the media enough to qualify as cult of celebrity. It amazes me how much money a simple website directory can make.
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