Why are we as a society so obsessed with celebrities and celebrity gossip? (Feature Request)
On a related note, I have a feature request: Please let us mute the categories of our choice upon login, like Digg allows its users to do. It would help everyone by creating a Mahalo that is unique to each user's tastes, instead of one Mahalo fits all. :-)
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M$7 Answers
People are just bored and entertainment business thrives from it.
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Also, if people can start voting on interesting question yes/no more often we will start sorting the pages including that factor. This means the "default sort" will be time, # of answers and interesting votes--combined!
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M$I haven't answered your question about why people are obsessed with them, as I don't really know. Not sure that being obsessed with celebrities is a lot different than being obsessed with other things, such as following a sport avidly.
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I also follow some sports, but in some ways it's a male version of celebrities and soaps. Who's in, who's out, who did what to whom, who is the bad guy, where someone went wrong, and how they should have played if differently...
Equally incomprehensible to people that aren't hooked.
However, there is definitely non-soap aspect to sports, especially if you play them yourself. But I suspect many of the emotional drivers why people obsess about them are the same.
Disclaimer: I'm a casual sports viewer, not a fan.
Sports are similar, but very different. I can understand why I might follow a sports team because, for example, I played basketball and I appreciate the skill that comes with swishing a 3 point shot. Furthermore, that team might be from my hometown, and so I've got some emotion invested into the team and want to see them win so my city can have something to brag about. Or the team could be the college that you went to. (Go Bears?) So I get that. I just don't get celebrity.
With all the new features, they will probably have to redo the profile editing section before too much longer...=(
My $0.02
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Not only would the question itself bring people in, but the answers given would likely provide links, keyword rich comments, etc.
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So perhaps following celebrities and their activities is a means of escape? I can see what that makes a whole lot of sense... that's kind of what the movies and TV are like for me: escape from reality. I guess that's why I mostly like documentaries or learning programs: I'd like to at least learn while I escape.