Celebrity Gossip Today

As we get to the point where we have less and less friends in common, the only way we can engage relationships and communication is to try to find people who are known to both of us â€" celebrities, public figures, sports stars, and media figures of all kinds. This allows us to gossip about a common theme â€" the well known celebrity. Now that communities include virtual ones, we engage in virtual celebrity gossip by e-mail, text or Internet. Most of the time this is for pure entertainment and the forming of social bonds. This need-to-know what happed to so and so could explain the enduring popularity of soap operas and other gossipy media. This human need for celebrity gossip was shown in Scotland in a recent human group experiment.
An interesting discovery about Celebrity Gossip
Scottish Psychologists devised a mind test similar to the game known as "Chinese whispers",
They gave 10 volunteers four different texts to read, and then asked them to write down what they could remember. Their efforts were then passed to another set of volunteers as passages for them to learn, and the process was repeated four times.
The final version of the texts were then compared against the original â€" and the psychologists found that "celebrity gossip-like" information, involving deception and infidelity and the interactions of other people, was most easily remembered and relayed with the most accuracy.
However, the volunteers were hardly able to recall purely descriptive information about individuals or their surroundings. These results suggest that humans attach a high importance to personal and social data. Just the type of data we find when we engage in celebrity gossip. Could this information be used in the future to educate our children? Who knows but finding out about other people's private lives and interactions is a key for human survival. We must also remember that celebrity gossip does have a serious side to it.