Everyone’s climbing on the Twitter bandwagon, including celebrities.
But maybe there should be a rule that prohibits celebrities from using Twitter. Why? Mostly because the danger of Twitter is it can reveal the mundaneness of everyday life. When you peel back the onion, the lives of celebrities, for the most part, are just as dull as the rest of us.
And the truth is we really don’t want our celebrities to be boring like us. We want them to be glamorous, sexy, extravagant, rich and beautiful. We like it when they get drunk in public or cut off all their hair or abandon their marriages or wear bad clothes to public events. But we don’t want them to act like us.
So, let’s ban celebrities – even the minor ones – from using Twitter. They’ve got their bling, red carpets and shopping sprees. We’ve got Twitter.
For more, check out Spark Minute, who points out a site devoted to Twitter-ing celebrities called Celebrity Tweet. The New York Times had a story on celebrities who use Twitter. As well, CNet has a story about directories that let you find “cool” people to follow.
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Celebrities Should be Banned from Twitter
Everyone’s climbing on the Twitter bandwagon, including celebrities.
But maybe there should be a rule that prohibits celebrities from using Twitter. Why? Mostly because the danger of Twitter is it can reveal the mundaneness of everyday life. When you peel back the onion, the lives of celebrities, for the most part, are just as dull as the rest of us.
And the truth is we really don’t want our celebrities to be boring like us. We want them to be glamorous, sexy, extravagant, rich and beautiful. We like it when they get drunk in public or cut off all their hair or abandon their marriages or wear bad clothes to public events. But we don’t want them to act like us.
So, let’s ban celebrities – even the minor ones – from using Twitter. They’ve got their bling, red carpets and shopping sprees. We’ve got Twitter.
For more, check out Spark Minute, who points out a site devoted to Twitter-ing celebrities called Celebrity Tweet. The New York Times had a story on celebrities who use Twitter. As well, CNet has a story about directories that let you find “cool” people to follow.