Currently, celebrities are more willing to share their opinions with ordinary people as means of information transfer become convenient. Some of these ideas may be crooked. Meanwhile, their negative impact on young people is increasingly worrying. In my opinion, younger people are easier to be influenced by celebrities than older people.

Older generations receive information mainly from TV, while younger generations receive information chiefly on the Internet. On TV programs, celebrities express their ideas less. Instead, they perform according to the script made before. Thus, they rarely impress the audience because of their own opinion. However, they are free to share their own striking ideas on the Internet. These seemingly rebelling messages attract young people a lot and impose a strong influence on them.

Aside from different preferences of media, older generations tend to have a solid view of life. They experienced far more than young people and have a more comprehensive perspective on celebrities. For instance, my father, one of the ordinary old guys in the world, criticizes TV shows or celebrity interviews every day from his point of view. When he hears a novel viewpoint, he always judges it by relating to his own experience, which young people lack.

Most importantly, in many countries’ traditional cultures, only seniors have the ability to impart their knowledge to juniors. “Do not try to persuade the old because he knows more than you” is a consensus in China or even in the world. That is to say, celebrities hardly try to impose an influence on older generations. To make an opinion more convincing and persuasive, a lot of examples or stories need to be included in one’s narrative. Famous people tend to make the story closes to teenagers’ life, thus attracting more teens.

Needless to say, younger or older generations will be influenced by celebrities. But in my opinion, younger people are undoubtedly easier to be affected because of their ways to obtain information and lack of experience.