Now I tend to look at myself as an individual, a person who has a mind of their own, I can take information from sources, filter through it and then come to a conclusion and be able to form my own opinion about the subject, I’m like many others my age. Now, also being a 20 year old girl who likes clothing, magazines and gossip, I find myself on websites like Perezhilton.com. Some days I find myself on there because I’m bored, other times because I am actually interested in a celebrity story, want to hear new music or maybe its out of routine now, I’m really not sure. Communication wise- this is where I get my fix- it’s my link to the celebrity world that I get for free and on a timely basis. However I’ve now come to notice the hold its coming to have on myself.
The other day I was discussing something with my roommate and she happened to bring up Miley Cyrus, my automatic reaction was “oh I hate her” in which my friend asked why- and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why. Its not like I ever had a bad encounter with her personally, I’d never even listened to her music or watched her show to be able to hate her. Then I realized, Perez Hilton, he has been bashing her for month’s now- Perez Hilton brainwashed me into hating Miley Cyrus!!
It goes hand and hand with Perception, the Self and Communication. Perez is constantly building his personal brand with his website, www.perezhilton.com, he understands his personal beliefs which he strongly portrays on it and is able to manipulate the beliefs of others, ie MYSELF!
''If Hollywood is high school, like so many celebs claim, then Perez, TMZ.com, and even YouTube are the digital equivalent of the writing on the girls'-bathroom wall, littered with secrets, rumors, and bitchery” (The Influence of Perez Hilton, www.ew.com). Perez Hilton is a major influence on pop culture today, he turns local musicians into overnight sensations, he has major influence on people who read his page, more influence then they realize.
The article “Green Suasion or Mind Control” talks about the idea of spinning ideas to people in order to get them to be more green, basically almost tricking them into making a greener choice then they would have before. It goes on to say that “We’re being influenced anyways…if there purposeful efforts to help people make choices they want to anyway, why is that bad? They still have a choice.” Now I get that I’m comparing making our lives “greener” to Perez Hilton talking about Miley Cyrus but it’s the same small factors out there that are influencing the way I act without me even knowing about it.
So in conclusion, do I really hate Miley Cyrus or did Perez tell me to do it? Who knows, all I’m saying is that he has the magical power to change the way people think, sometimes without them knowing about it. Communication is tricky in way,s communicating ones beliefs to the world constantly can change a couple of minds out there, who knows, but now I think about what Perez is saying on his website and try to not hate people I’ve never met, well most of the time at least.
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