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The Sydney Morning Herald’s writer Elizabeth Day wrote an article this month called “Help, Instagram is Making me Obsessed with Celebrities”. Day talks about her personal interest to celebrities instagram accounts and what they choose to post, and how sometimes they seem over the top and that their lifestyle is unattainable but still interesting (maybe this says something for those celebrities that do not choose to have social media accounts, like Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Aniston, does that make them inevitably more genuine, the fact that they keep their lives slightly more private and do not overly milk the attention of their fans) despite the fact that she has never met this person and most likely will not meet that particular celebrity she has a devotion to – how odd to be so devoted to someone one has never met personally (not that this is an unusual thing whatsoever, just odd and stalker-ish the more one thinks about it). However, Day also talks about the non-celebrities she follows for the same reason: inspiration. Is that what Instagram is now? The new Pinterest, without the guides. She even goes as far as to analyze the filters different people use and the moods that accompany that particular filter. Day mentions nonchalantly in one of her paragraphs that she likes to keep tabs on these people, celebrities or not. She likes to stay up to date with what they are doing, which is very common among social media users as it is a very passive way of staying current to their whereabouts and what they are up to, which can be a very innocent or very malignant attitude, as cyberbullying and stalking are very much real things and problems that people face every day. We should be able to have our social media accounts with the security that we are not being watched in the worst way; but that is, of course, the risk with broadcasting one’s life in a very personal manner and just because the celebrities are doing it (they most likely have extra safety settings and precautions their followers do not even think about), this shows the public it is normal and okay to show the world what car they drive, what their house likes like, their neighborhood. Kim Kardashian learned her lesson the hard way with social media last Autumn, when it came apparent that her very public life was far too easy to track and therefore led to her being robbed and gagged at gunpoint, leading to her hiatus from social media altogether for a few months following (Seal 2016). Although some people are still convinced it was a publicity stunt on her part (any press is good press, right?). Day goes on to say that her interest in celebrities comes from the idea that: “Partly, it’s that I like the idea of knowing things about someone’s life without fully knowing them.” And in all honesty, we probably do not know as much as we think we do; sure in passing we would most likely have something to talk about but in the grand scheme of things these celebrities let us see maybe a couple pictures or short videos a day. In the same way we will never one hundred percent know our best friends – sure we probably know them better than everyone else but do we know what keeps them up at night, what the thoughts are they have that they do not tell anyone, every single childhood memory, have they ever considered running for president?

Day compares these celebrity crushes to those she had at school and did not ever talk to but knew bits and pieces about them, and ultimately, that is sort of what it is but at a much larger and relatable scale, pretty much everyone has a celebrity crush and maybe that is all it comes down to?

 

Day, E., 2017. Help, Instagram is making me obsessed with celebrities. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 January 2017, Available from: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/is-being-hooked-on-instagram-icons-just-healthy-fun-or-borderline-obsession-20170119-gtubom.html [Accessed 22 January 2017].

Seal, M., 2016. The Inside Story of the Kim Kardashian Paris Hotel Heist. Vanity Fair, 2016, Available from: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/10/solving-kim-kardashian-west-paris-robbery [Accessed 22 January 2017].

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