We have been subscribing to "The Week" for a few months. I like the magazine, which reminds me of "Time". It succinctly describes news events all over the world. It also reports incidents that are interesting but aren't world-shaking.
For instance: Jeremy Meeks
In 2014, Meeks was booked on a gun charge. He is reported to be 35 years old and to have spent more than a decade in prison before the age of 30. In 2014, Meeks' mugshot was placed on the Stockton, Calif. website. He is good-looking enough that his photo went viral. The Week reports that he has work in New City as a model and is now part of a world very different from the one he knew growing up.
The man was an adult, in prison, after being a gang member, but had not heard the term "going viral". I looked up "viral" and found both definitions about infectious agent viruses and about being well-known. This past Friday, I posted about Nikki Lilly, also a phenomenon because of fame enhanced by YouTube and tv-type experiences using the internet. A combination of smartphones, the internet and various social media services make it possible for an incident, a sight, a message to be transmitted and re-transmitted to most parts of the planet very, very quickly.
Back in 2014, I posted the comment the actress Queen Latifah made:
Queen Latifah, the movie actress, said," If I fall down leaving a club, it will be on the internet in 20 seconds." That was a few years back.
Very quickly moving messages, impressions are an increasing force in today's world.
