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Why do people spend time on finding their Facebook look alike celebrity?
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February 7th, 2010
There are a number of Celebrity Look Alike Generator applications available on the web to help you select your Celebrity look alike photo for Facebook look alike week or Doppleganger Week on Facebook as it is also known. See
Here’s another post about the phenomenon. A user wrote: “The origin of this trend is unclear, but expect to see it for a while. If you are wondering (like me) which celebrity you resemble (or wish to resemble!), then I would let you know about a cool web tool to help you find that. Head over to MyHeritage and through their fancy-schmancy advanced face recognition technology, you can upload a picture of yourself and get a set of celebrities that you bear resemblance to.
A quick note to warn you – the results are sometime amazing to something outright ridiculous. Anyway it is meant to be for fun only! So, make sure you filter out the insulting matches and choose only the worthy/decent ones if you decide to pitch in for Facebook Doppeganger Week! As for me, it was a disaster, so I am out of it.”
http://techpp.com/2010/01/30/facebook-doppelganger-week-find-your-celebrity-look-alike/
What do you think about this idea? Has it got the potential to further spread celebrity worship syndrome which is an obsessive-addictive disorder in which a person becomes overly involved with the details of a celebrity’s personal life?
From Wikipedia: Evidence indicates that celebrity worship is correlated with poor mental health.
Psychologists have indicated that though many people obsess over glamorous film, television, sport and pop stars, others have unlikely icons such as politicians or authors. The only common factor between them is that they are all figures in the public eye.
The intense-personal aspect of celebrity worship reflects intensive and compulsive feelings about the celebrity, akin to the obsessional tendencies of fans often referred to in the literature; for example “I share with my favorite celebrity a special bond that cannot be described in words” and “When something bad happens to my favorite celebrity I feel like it happened to me’”. This dimension is typified by uncontrollable behaviors and fantasies regarding scenarios involving their celebrities, such as “I have frequent thoughts about my favorite celebrity, even when I don’t want to” and “my favorite celebrity would immediately come to my rescue if I needed help”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Worship_Syndrome
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