18. Name Dropping
People in the middle and lower class wish they could meet a celebrity. That is why many of them pay a lot of money to stand in line at fan conventions like ComicCon. As soon as they meet this person, the photo immediately goes to Instagram or Facebook even though it was a shallow interaction. If they visit a place full of celebrities, such as New York City or Los Angeles, they may keep their cameras ready to snap a picture of a celebrity they may see. For years to come, they decide to name-drop the fact that they “met” this famous person. But if you ask the celebrity, he or she will not even remember that person.
Upper-middle-class to upper-class people tend to name drop far less often for many reasons. They may work with someone who is a public figure and realize that celebrities are human too. So they don’t see it as being a big deal that they know someone famous. The more comfortable they become with knowing public figures. They understand that these people value their privacy, so they may not even mention that they met someone famous. At the same time, they don’t want people to be name-dropping them because they have their own lives and want their privacy to be respected.