Monday, October 4, 2010

TMZ Anyone?

The blog I decided to follow is not something I’m particularly interested in. I figured I’d follow something I knew would be updated on a daily basis.

So Lindsay Lohan is in Rehab again, O.J Simpson’s custom tailored lucky suit he wore during his acquittal is in a museum, Greg Geraldo dies at the age of 44, and Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt share some s’more’s as they reconciled their relationship. If you haven’t figured out what type of blog I followed for 5 painstaking days, then you my friend are a very lucky person to not know of its existence.

I followed TMZ, the country’s largest celebrity gossip website. From what I understand, TMZ will flood your life full of senseless information about celebrities and their baggage (for those who might be into that kind of stuff). To put it in a nutshell, TMZ gathers every bit of information they can get on celebrities and will air what they find about these celebrities to the public. Unfortunately for celebrities, the blog is updated almost every minute.

This particular blog offers Smartphone Apps for those that need their celebrity gossip immediately. They also offer text alerts to notify the user when a celebrity of personal interest has been spotted out in the general public. For example Nick Nolte gets into a one-sided water fight. Now the user who might be a HUUUGE Nick Nolte fan will receive an alert via text message about this alleged water fight. Not signed up for text alerts? Don't own a Smartphone? Then log into Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or your YouTube account and find out what this one-sided water fight is all about. Hell, you can log into all 4 and multi-task your gossip.

As for what trumps E-mail, I agree with everyone else that e-mail is not going to disappear. What if you need to send a professional message to someone? Your not going to text message it or IM it to the receiver. I’m thankful enough that I don't have to solely rely on snail-mail to send and receive messages.

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