Time Magazine article from January, discussing the niche market for private paparazzi. $1500 deluxe package includes your own buzz-creating, stalky photogs for a night on the town. This takes Heather’s FriendFeed post to the next step - commercializing trifle-monitoring at a financial loss.

Click for a more readable version. Here’s the part I’d highlighted: “We live in a culture where if it’s not documented, it doesn’t exist,” says Josh Gamson, a University of San Francisco professor of sociology who studies culture and mass media. “And if you don’t have people asking who you are, you’re nobody.”

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