Lindsay Lohan Shaves Head for Charity: Or was it Justin Bieber or Britney Spears?

Lindsay Lohan appears in court for jewelry theft and the story is on the top searches for Yahoo! and Google. Britney Spears shaves her head due to temporary insanity and the world searches for photos of the star, hairless. Justin Bieber cuts his hair for charity and fans flock to his Twitter page to announce how shorter hair is so much cuter than longer hair. What do these three stories have in common? They are all useless bits of knowledge, covered on millions of web pages and Internet articles while the world is falling apart around us.

Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber are celebrities with too much time on their hands and far too much recognition. Go to a local courthouse and you will see a young life destroyed by lack of parental guidance and bad decisions as a teenager is tried for theft. Visit a cancer unit in a local hospital and you see men and women with shaved heads because chemotherapy caused them to lose hair. Contact Locks of Love and you will find thousands of people who have donated miles of hair for charity. These cases are not front-page news, but we pass through life giggling, chatting, tweeting and sharing stories from the lives of celebrities because we are caught up in a world of fantasy not reality.

In real life, that teen who stole a Slurpee from the local 7-Eleven will spend time in a youth detention center while Lindsay Lohan is strolling through the streets of Beverly Hills looking for her next score. Cancer patients risk losing their homes and lives while Britney Spears is flaunting her new body on the cover of Vogue Magazine and Rolling Stone Magazine will interview Justin Bieber on the state of the U.S. healthcare system while someone receives a wig created from donated hair and walks out of the house feeling good about themselves for the first time in years.

Come on people, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber are moments in time that will fade away. Their celebrity status will not stop teens from making horrible life decisions. Their spending habits will not help find a cure for cancer. Their hair donations will not affect the lives of child cancer victims who want nothing more than to go to a school dance with a bow in their hair.

Spend your next 15 minutes on the Internet searching for local charities, bone marrow donation centers and local fundraisers that impact life and stop searching for Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber so you have something to talk about over the water cooler.