Insightful as always, Ellen. I totally agree everyone (celebs included) have a right to their own privacy. That filming thing is so bizarre too. I can understand if someone's filming a video in a park or something and obviously people are gonna be walking by in the background (but you also could see the camera and, if desired, walk a different way). But walking by in background is very different from being the unintentional subject of someone else's video for presumably profit. Weird.
I can understand some nuance for celebrities, I think it's natural for admirers to want to talk to them... But there needs to be a line. Like respecting if they say no or don't want to/have time to talk to you. Or if you see a celeb out with their kids, or a context that is just not appropriate to approach them like church, a funeral, they look upset, etc, just leave them alone... I think that's just basic respect?
Maybe the correct answer is not to bother them at all. In either case, I can't understand people who get mad at someone for wanting some space or saying no to a request, like Chappell Roan did. That's when you apologize, politely say have a good day and leave.
Overall I view social media in general (as a technology, as an invention) to be a net positive effect in many areas, but it has made culture/social interaction quite skewed too...
Insightful as always, Ellen. I totally agree everyone (celebs included) have a right to their own privacy. That filming thing is so bizarre too. I can understand if someone's filming a video in a park or something and obviously people are gonna be walking by in the background (but you also could see the camera and, if desired, walk a different way). But walking by in background is very different from being the unintentional subject of someone else's video for presumably profit. Weird.
I can understand some nuance for celebrities, I think it's natural for admirers to want to talk to them... But there needs to be a line. Like respecting if they say no or don't want to/have time to talk to you. Or if you see a celeb out with their kids, or a context that is just not appropriate to approach them like church, a funeral, they look upset, etc, just leave them alone... I think that's just basic respect?
Maybe the correct answer is not to bother them at all. In either case, I can't understand people who get mad at someone for wanting some space or saying no to a request, like Chappell Roan did. That's when you apologize, politely say have a good day and leave.
Overall I view social media in general (as a technology, as an invention) to be a net positive effect in many areas, but it has made culture/social interaction quite skewed too...