
Senft’s argument states that people cannot use the internet to traffick microcelebrities.
There is a significant difference between before the advent of the Internet and the new media. Theresa’s article declares that users of commercially owned social websites as unpaid labourers are not to produce new forms of “attention property”,but ” the Internet as playground/ factory”. This can make people develop themselves and find some job in the Internet.
Micro-celebrity can bring some problems for people.
Fristly, it can lead people to question the difference between privacy and publicity. There is a question. How do people look at the public figures who decide on “public privacy”, those already famous actors have obliged to use social networking sites to ” talk like their friends ” with fans? As a result, how should people base on the theory of “speaking as one’s own” put forward by Twitter users?
Sencondly, the microcelebrity and super-public presence can result in a social phenomenon that has been called ” strange familiarity”. The term “familiar stranger” means those who know each other visually rather than by name. The Internet can make people understand stranger’s stories and people are often attracted to some stories and give their own ideas. These ideas can produce some misreading and hurt someone. However, Mirco thinks that it is not a kind of a misreading. It is to rouse people to have a new type of ethics. Microcelebrity can give people a variety of ways of transposition thinking. We have to explain why we chose to watch events happen in front of us as if we could do nothing about them. We also have to explain why we chose to take action. Of course, in an age of information provided by the public, it is our responsibility to know directly those who we believe need to establish unfamiliar and familial relationships, especially those who live around the world.


