I guess you're right Nicole. It's not so much that people care, it's just that these celebs are using these channels as huge microphones to amplify everything they say.
Now that we can hear it, we can understand that they are not always so brilliant. Like they might appear in a favorite movie role, etc.
It is not careful consideration but rather careless amplification that is the issue here.
"I am trying to figure out when it became so important to care what Ashton Kutcher or other celebrities burped out of their brains."
That's a good question, cjon. And it's something I've been considering. I guess this shift happened when high-profile people began connecting directly with an audience through these social channels. I think that comes with a responsibility. Also, everything these people think is now on display and capable of being scrutinized. It's not really that what they say is important -- rather, it's just likely to be amplified by millions of people across the Web.
I am trying to figure out when it became so important to care what Ashton Kutcher or other celebrities burped out of their brains.
This is not the first idiotic post from a celebrity, but most of the non important stuff doesn't offend to the level of this particular incident from aplusk.
His twitter post about how can you fire ... should have been spoken in private and not begun with 8 million followers in the first place.
There is an expression for this, called spouting off.
It is this and the total overabundance of this type of uninformed overflow that makes people throw their hands into the air and say shut up!!!
We don't care what you think about Joe Paterno, informed or not.
Twitter and other social media forums are platforms for shaping opinions around the globe. Comments by celebrities, such as Ashton, are one thing. Let's hope we never see individuals or organizations gain the attention to the degree Hitler did by using Twitter and other sources to spread their messages and infect minds around the world.
Nicole and Kim have heard the news that Google's new mobile OS, "Jelly Bean," has a voice assistant that's poised to defeat their precious Siri. It's time for another test!
Apple's newest commercial features actress Zooey Deschanel having her requests for weather, soup, and music easily fulfilled by Siri. Nicole and Kim are putting those same questions to the test.
At the IBM Pulse conference, executives urged attendees to stop being guided by hype and start thinking about the cloud and other enterprise "toys" in terms of their own business outcomes.
Based on reactions in Nicole's Newsfeed, everyone hates this version of Facebook. This should matter to Facebook now that there's a real competitor on the scene named Google+.
Allowing users to share music and video on Facebook might sound like good news, but is this part of a coherent strategy, or is Facebook just stumbling from idea to idea?
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
While the publishing industry reels from the pressure of digital books and freely available content on the Web, one branch of the industry, the publishers of academic books and journals, remains above the fray. How is this possible and how long will it last?
For users with large numbers of Twitter followers, the service has become irrelevant. Is this the beginning of the end for the short message service we have allegedly loved?
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