Perceived: (Para)Social Media (Part Two)
In part one , I wrote about my deep desire to be seen and known. Now, I want to dive a little deeper but also go a totally different direction. Part confession, part...diary entry? I've always been a magazine girlie...which led me to be a pop culture fanatic from an early age. From Tiger Beat to Teen to Seventeen to Teen People to Us Weekly to People to Vogue to Elle to Jane to Lucky... [If I was a Barbie, one of the accessories that I would not come equipped with would be any sort of CHILL. I don't have any. It's not my natural state. When I like anything, I just know (assume) that I'm the biggest and best fan of it.] Somehow, in my imagination, me loving these celebrities equated to us having something in common. Whether it was our humor, having the same favorite color, or favoring the same fast food chain, I felt like we were connected in a way. Then, anytime one of them released a fragrance or had a collab with a brand, I was undoubtedly going to support them! As...
