personality shaped by media

As media can be easily public accessed, vast information can be easily spread and received. When facing so much information, people’s attitude towards the certain things, the society, even the world will suffer unexpectable change. That’s why the researchers said the media can shape people’s personality.
Recently, I read a topic published on a very famous BBS called TIANYA COMMUNITY in China. TIANYA COMMUNITY is very famous in China due to the compared open environment and the participation of various kinds of people whose job level can range from inferior workers to the CEO of multinational company. People can post any information on there. The topic I read named “wrench event of male movie stars” in which a woman who declared her former job as a manager in a famous holiday inn revealed several wrench events of famous male stars she met in the hotel during her work. This topic shows high authenticity and draws a lot of attention from other readers, a furious discussion began. Some people came to reveal more events and more people show their astoundment about this. They cannot believe the male movie stars they enthusiastically like are so different in private from the glorious image on the screen. Some people also show the destruction which this topic brought to their world view by saying “oh my god, how can this society be like this? Is there anything I can believe?”
The reason this topic draws my attention is because I think it is a good example of the media shaping people’s personality. Obviously, people can never get such information like this in the past without the developed media. They can live in a world shaped by themselves and the very surroundings and hardly disturbed by external environment almost a life. But in nowadays, various kinds of information are extremely easy to obtain. I can understand the astonishment when people get to know the real characters of the stars they spend money and sentiment for. By receiving such astonishment, it is hard for people, especially for those naïve teenagers, not to doubt everything.