Ng Yiu San 10583198 Blog post 2

In nowadays, Social media have become a very important way for people to connect with other, it is become a part of our social network. It is not difficult to see celebrity using social media whatever twitter, instagram or facebook. They use those channel to make more interactive with their fans. It give a platform for their fans to give them suggestion and feedback in their work and share their happy moment to their fans. It should be a nice way for them while they are having a good communication to each others.

Celebrity account on social are mostly share to public, It mean that they are the example of the public and they will affect the public in what they have share on their social media account. I think they should control what they have post, because some young fans will read their post and try to copy what they have do in their life. Just like football star Joey Barton, he always get in trouble on his twitter account, It is a bad example for the young fans who loves him, his action on twitter will give a bad affect to his fans.

Also I think these type of social media is also a double edged knife for the public and celebrity. Celebrity can share their work to their fans but the fans can also give feedback to them. If those celebrity have not do a good work in their work, some fans will give out some bad word to them then will make celebrity does not feel good. This is another example, another football star Dejan Lovren did not have a good performance when he is having match, then some team fans go to his instagram and leave some bad comment, and Dejan have close his account for a while. We can see that these social media account from celebrity are not safe enough for public and themselves.

Reference:
Marwick, A. & boyd, d. (2011). To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 17(2), 139–158.

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