Censorship Of Teenagers Obsession With Celebrities

When a life of parties, short-term relationships, drugs, and alcohol are leading celebrities like Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and Lindsay Lohan to spiral out of control, you would think that their lifestyle is far from the ideal. However, fans of these stars seem to disagree. Now, in an age where we have more contact with celebrity gossip than ever before, we are faced with a question: what are the effects that superstars have upon our society?

Some of us would say “No”, but the majority of us would leap on the prospect of living the life of a celebrity. Who doesn’t want the perks of vacationing all over the world, having someone wait on you hand and foot, receiving freebies from designers and all the other perks that come with being a celebrity? The question is do we want the downfalls that come with fame? Can we handle vicious tabloid scrutiny, fabrications, and assumptions? Being a celebrity has its perks, but at what cost? Fame and money can be the root of all evil. Never the less, we are contributing to the madness when we purchase tabloid magazines, watch entertainment shows that follow celebrity activities and judge them for their actions.

Celebrities have become such a major part of American culture and heavily influenced society on how we, average people, live our lives. Throughout the world, people look up to celebrities as if they are some sort of God. Their admiration for celebrities has now become an obsession. These average people of society basically stalk these celebrities. They constantly check social media sites to see what a celebrity is doing and talk about these people like they know them personally. Beyoncé’s fans verbally attacked Rachel Roy and her daughter all because of one part of a song. Beyoncé never confirmed any of the rumors, but her fans were on the hunt to attack anyone they saw as a threat to Beyoncé. In today’s society, people put these celebrities

Some people, like King, portrays people to be obsessed with celebrities. In Palmer’s short essay response he states, “We teenagers are passionate - maybe even obsessed - about our favorite stars, but that doesn’t make it a big problem, and it doesn’t mean we want to copy their bad behaviors” (14). I think this quote makes it clear that, Palmer believes teenagers are not influenced by celebrities negatively. For example, the results of a survey taken by several 7th graders shows that, 0.9% percent of students are inspired to do something bad because a celebrity. Students, kids

Introductory Paragraph Being a celebrity is not all it is cracked up to be. They have to deal with situations that the average citizen most likely cannot relate to. For example, many celebrities constantly encounter paparazzi who stalk them in order to take their picture, invading their privacy. Celebrities must also juggle demanding jobs, while maintaining a home life that many attempt to live as normally as possible. Celebrities lead busy, hectic lives that require them to appear in public frequently, exposing themselves to intense scrutiny; nonetheless, the private lives of celebrities should be off limits because everyone has a First Amendment right to privacy, it is invading their privacy not our business, causes different problems such as serious damage problems that might end up messing with their careers, and affecting family members in a negative way.

The role of fame and celebrities’ heavily influence American culture. Some people may be eager for a celebrity status or be drawn to one who has achieved it for reasons not fully understood. When the word “fame” is thought of, often what comes to mind is the money and the attention that comes with it. However, fame can also bring pain through addiction and the publics lack of acknowledgement that celebrities are people who share the same struggles and stress. America’s obsession with “celebrity culture” effects the attitudes, behaviors, and the overall views of an average person, and also those of the celebrity themselves.

Celebrities are everywhere in the news, the latest gossip appears in the weekly magazines without fail. Whether they be an actor, athlete, dancer, designer, model, singer or just rich; there is someone out there who is watching that person like a hawk, not letting a single breath go unnoticed. Such

After many years of playing a famous actor on the Entourage series, Adrian Grenier has become a celebrity in real life, and profiles a young teenager who is a product of our star-struck society. One evening, while being followed by a group of paparazzi, Grenier noticed that one of them

A group of people subject to continuous glamour and publicity has taken the spotlight, creating the American world of the “celebrity”. “It does not seem to matter what the man is the very best at; so long as he has won out in competition over all others, he is celebrated” (P. 74). Celebration is the basis of their existence. Propagated by the mass media, they have become part of the national prestige—shadow of money and power. This competition for attention is joined

A Controversial Obsession For thousands of years people have obsessed over celebrities. In Collin Palmer’s short essay response, he suggests that Deborah King exaggerates the harm of a celebrity obsession. I agree with Palmer because even though we students may obsess over some famous people, to us it is just

Celebrity gossip spreads easily via social media platforms like instagram, Snapchat,YouTube, and Facebook, or gossip blogs, websites,radio stations, or TV shows. Depending upon the type of gossip, then it sets an image of the celebrity themselves for us as a society, who may or may not be followers. Just about

When it comes to celebrities, society is under the impression that celebrities live this ideal lifestyle. The common perception is that because celebrities are very wealthy, they get special treatment, and the recognition they get from fans is what makes them “perfect,” but society never puts focus on the disadvantages of their lifestyle. In author Mary Loftus, “The Other Side of Fame,” some of the downsides are the lack of privacy and the chemical dependence celebrities use to help cope with all the pressure from the fame. If I was a celebrity, the downsides that come with the fame would affect the mental stability I have as a normal person, and therefore make it difficult for me to manage that lifestyle.

Teenagers are using celebrities such as Kylie Jenner, as idols, trying to copy them in all that they do. Most of the time it seems celebrities are not the greatest of role models for impressionable girls and boys, but whether Jenner is responsible for her negative influences on young people is debatable. She is famous and obviously sets standards in today’s society, but she is also a teenager herself, with little experience when it comes to obsessive fans.

The negative portrayal of teenagers in the media is too much for their developing brains to handle and it needs to stop now – Nikola Ajdarević Throughout your teenage years, I’m sure that you would have done some questionable things here and there, but do you really believe that it is

People were not exposed to barrage of news about celebrities a couple of decades ago. Mass media is becoming more garden because of rapid progress on technology day by day. Thereby, people are substantially interested in the private life of celebrities, and some of them are obsessed with celebrities. They desire to know everything about them. For instance, who is dating with whom, where they are shopping, or what they wear. In a word public have an endless hunger for more information. However, the public doesn't have the right to know about every single detail of celebrities' private lives due to several reasons.