The Social Reality Show
Posted by Dan | Filed under Blog, Thinking
Something that has been on my mind for a while is that social media is like the next level of reality TV. People log on to Twitter and other social networks to see what real people are doing. Generic users start Tweeting about Tweeting, or telling the world that ‘this is my status message’.
Over the past few years as we have seen a rise in reality TV programming, has this now shifted online? There are two types of people that the users seem to follow… a fully fledged star or an internet phenomena!
From the likes of Paris Hilton posting pictures of herself, to Justin (ShitMyDadSays) creating a Twitter account for his (supposed) Dad and posting funny quotes on what he has said. Are we too interested in other people these days? This is a general observation and clearly can not be applied to all, but for the generic human, is that all they strive for?
More to come on this topic!
Tags: celebs, reality tv, Social Media, social reality, Twitter
One Response to “The Social Reality Show”
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we are shift f7 » Blog Archive » The Internet: Makes you who you wana be? Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 11:44 am[...] Tags: escapism, facebook, Social Media, Twitter | No Comments » I have spoken about the ‘Social Reality Show‘ in previous posts; the human obsession with the famous and the new tools celebrities use to [...]
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