Caroline Flack, a TV celebrity presenter, sadly ended her life at the weekend, and this resulted in a great deal of angst about the role of the media and how they basically gave her a hard time along with social media trolls etc. This has led to an immediate campaign for social media users to 'be kind', as if this hadn't occurred to anyone. It seems a bit odd that we need to remind people to be kind to each other, but at least we have social media to tell people how to behave, then we can give them some grief if they don't.
I don't speak from experience, but it seems to be that celebrities must be torn between deleting themselves from social media to avoid the hassle, or embracing it as a marketing tool raising their profile, influence, income etc. I guess it's quite a dilemma, and I would like to think that their management team (I guess all celebs have some sort of management team) should be able to help and advise. Unfortunately, I would hazard a guess that the management team are paid a percentage of income, and that must surely skew their advice when it comes to any sort of decisions that would affect earnings. I don't see any celeb managers getting the sort of media intrusion and social media grief that the celebs get.
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