What is this preoccupation with celebrities?

[Balcan]

I can't go a day on Facebook without hearing about Kylie Jenner, Miley Cyrus, and other people I find completely uninteresting.

Do you really have so little going on in your own life that you need to scrutinize every single thing they do?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I have no idea what the preoccupation is and I find it very sad that most celebrities have the opportunity to be a positive example or do humanitarian works and do not. Do they really need all that money? Do they really need to act so immature and be so selfish... sigh... I just shake my head.

[Balcan]

How do I benefit from Kylie Jenner's new Ferrari?


Of all the people to respect and take example from, of all the current events in the world, this is what we choose to concentrate on.

[MonkeyGirl18]

The only thing I see that I can't stand in my Facebook page is this lady who wouldn't do her job because of her religious beliefs...... I just can't stand it anymore.

[galled]

What I find funny is as advanced and media savvy as we in today's modern society think we are, the majority of us fall for advertising at its most basic level--exposure. What advertising really is is a form of brainwashing that takes advantage of human nature.

Advertisers know that if you stick something in someone's face enough times they'll take notice. Keep it up and it'll become conditioned to accept what is shown. Do it to next extreme levels and you begin to want to mimic what you see. (The old "monkey see, monkey do.")

What we see happening with the Kardashians et al is "celebrities," who have not earned that title through exceptional talent and/or work, is this basic advertising principle at work. I can't prove it, but what I think has happened is the media has been, through hook or crook I don't know, set on a course to "push" certain people and the rest of media follows along and it reaches critical mass and becomes its own growing thing that feeds itself.

The question I have is can anything be done to reign in the beast?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Then and now photos of some celebrities - some of them can't be real, can they?

http://popnbuzz.com/17-celebrities-who- ... /gallery/1

[Kitalpha Hart]

All I know is that I scroll past that stuff

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I'd like to know how their make up is done and how they hide all the blemishes etc

[Zombie Bunny]

I think it's just a hobby. Like how some people like videogsmes/cartoons/anime/series.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I think part of the preoccupation is how can they get paid so much money? And how can we make that much money too.

[galled]

True, but unfortunately it comes across as "behave outrageously/inappropriately/narcissistically."

[Hocus Pocus]

Man you must follow some odd people then. I never hear about any of those things on my Facebook. I only friend people I know in real life, and I don't watch/follow famous people.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Really though, I would not trade their lack of privacy for all that fame and money.

[Bassy]

I hear about Kim Davis,, though she is not a celebrity, everytime I go on facebook. It is so annoying. She acts like a hero though she is not.