Media Meditation #3: OMG! Katy Perry!!!

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While sitting in the Fireside Lounge at Champlain College a week or so ago, I overheard a conversation that literally made me “LOL.” A couple of friends were sitting in a circle, on their laptops, not talking (unless they were instant messaging 2 feet away from eachother), when a girl exclaimed, “OMG! Katy Perry just tweeted my name! This is the BEST DAY EVER!!!” When her friends looked at her with perplexed faces, she explained, “She just landed in Vienna!”

I kind of just sat there staring at them, my jaw on the ground. Was I the only one disgusted by this statement?!?! Do people really, actually get giddy with excitement when their name happens to be the same as a major city, and pop icon KATY PERRY actually refers to it? Really? Come on now.






Teens these days apparently idolize girls that sing about kissing other girls. Who would have thought? It’s hard to imagine where our society is going when the heroes of the next generation make FABULOUS music like this.

Regardless of my opinion concerning this event, it is a remarkable indication of the role the Web 2.0 plays in the lives of the general population. This girl was able to instantaneously know the happenings in the life of someone she had never met just because she was tuned into her tweets. The convergence of media is both astounding and unsettling…. Lets hope I don’t hear too many more conversations like this… otherwise I may just completely pack up and retreat into the woods.