When I get back to my room from class, practice, or wherever, I typically plop down on my desk and log onto my Middlebury webmail account, see if I have any urgent messages or new facebook messages. Then I procrastinate for about twenty minutes and check out my friends facebook updates. My next step is always to check Perez Hilton. I am really ashamed to admit this, but there is something about the site that makes it so easy to access celebrity gossip and scan through the site, picking and choosing which headlines might appeal to me. It’s much easier than actually purchasing People Magazine, Us Weekly, In Touch, etc. and you don’t have to waste your time skipping over the advertisements. It is a crazy site because Perez updates the information every 30 minutes or so. Each time I get back to my room, there is something new to learn about celebs. I don’t recommend getting started..it can get addictive!
Perez Hilton
- Author By Sarah Hatfield
- Publication date February 22, 2008
- Categories: social networking, Taste of the Internet, Uncategorized
- 2 Comments on Perez Hilton
I have to admit that I do the exact same thing– midd email to facebook to a few other sites that are updated daily and I need to check out. Not exactly Perez Hilton, but more along the lines of fashion and music…
I know, my friend back home is obsessed with Perez. And it’s just another example how the internet is making the print journalism industry obsolote. He updates about every thirty-minutes: In-touch publishes once-a-week.
Also, his tone is much less formal: it would be hard to convey that “blog-esque” feel and personal tone in a print magazine.