Do Twit Twitty Stars Really Tweet On Twitter?
"I ain't got time to stand around here and discuss trivial trivialities!"
I admit, I don't Twitter. I do Facebook and I've thought about MySpacing, but Twitter...I guess I just don't see the point. For one thing, my life isn't exciting enough to chronicle in short, 140-character bursts. I mean, what am I gonna say? "I'm putting together the supper menu. Hamburger Helper it is!" or "My cat took a dump in the sandbox and it's smelling up the laundry room." or "My toenails grow too slow. I wonder if that fungus has anything to do with it?"
Okay, maybe I'm sharing too much with you people.
But I guess that's part of my point...why would I want to stay hyper-connected to my friends? Why would they want to stay hyper-connected to me? Do I have people in my life who care that much? I don't think even I care that much. I'm boring! (Dawn, however, is not. Of course she's not. She's awesome!)
But to get to my point (and I do have one)...it brought to my mind how people get on these sites and think that because they are "friends" with a celeb, they are somehow connecting with them and leave them gushy little notes telling how the "thx 4 d add" blurb totally brightened their day and gave them a reason to go on. Surely anyone over the age of fifteen realizes that what you see is mostly not what you get when it comes to celeb marketing? Lily Allen and Perez notwithstanding, I figured out a long time ago that many (not all...yeah, I'm talkin' to you, Ashton) celebs who have these sort of social networking pages don't maintain them themselves, and I guess I was right:
The rapper 50 Cent is among the legion of stars who have recently embraced Twitter to reach fans who crave near-continuous access to their lives and thoughts. On March 1, he shared this insight with the more than 200,000 people who follow him: “My ambition leads me through a tunnel that never ends.” Continued on the next page
