Negative Effects Of Celebrity Culture

In today’s world there are thousands of people called “celebrities” that the majority of the human population knows. These celebrities believe it or not have a huge impact on people. Since most celebrities are known for movies and television shows, many people know about them and probably watch them daily. Although this can have it’s benefits but the majority of it is harmful to everyone’s lives. It’s harmful because it distracts everyone from real drastic problems happening all over the world, it makes people want to be and to be noticed and liked by others, and it can ruin friendships. The first way that celebrity culture is harmful is that it distracts everyone from major world problems. Everyone focus’ too much on what is happening in their show or what will happen next. This distracts people from actually paying attention to everything happening around them. For …show more content…
This means that everyone have seen celebrities on television and some or most want to become like them. An example is from Chris Hedges, with him saying “We yearn to stand before the camera, to be noticed and admired. We build pages on social networking sites devoted to presenting our image to the world. We seek to control how other think of us…” This shows that the people who want to become a celebrity throw out everything about them being themselves and want to be noticed by everyone, by presenting themselves as a perfect person. Another piece of information is from Scout Durwood saying “Rather than deciding what we like for ourselves, we feel compelled to like what everyone else likes.” This shows that wanting to become like a celebrity or just wanting to fit in is a big issue with people today. Celebrities have created a social class among people today with the majority wanting to be in the higher popular standards while very few wanting to be in the lower