People in ATL do actually start up random conversations in random places. I have to some extent picked up this habit. I am in deep trouble if I ever move to a normal city.
As for Twitter... the thing about it is, the candor it seems to inspire in celebrity-types runs the risk of convincing fan-types that they have more intimate knowledge about their stars than they really do. It's easy to imagine that you're privy to the deepest secrets and KNOW what's going on. Alternatively, it can be fun to just theorize and hypothesize and what-if as if it were all a fanfic (which, really, it is - Twitter being no more reliable an indicator of true facts than any other part of the public image). But I'm a bit concerned that someday some unbalanced fan is going to be persuaded by Twitterings that they have actual intimate knowledge of "their" celeb, and end up breaking into their house or something because of it. Not that crazed fans don't exist outside the 'net, but Twitter just seems the perfect conduit for that sort of thing, y'know?
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Date: 2009-04-07 04:18 am (UTC)As for Twitter... the thing about it is, the candor it seems to inspire in celebrity-types runs the risk of convincing fan-types that they have more intimate knowledge about their stars than they really do. It's easy to imagine that you're privy to the deepest secrets and KNOW what's going on. Alternatively, it can be fun to just theorize and hypothesize and what-if as if it were all a fanfic (which, really, it is - Twitter being no more reliable an indicator of true facts than any other part of the public image). But I'm a bit concerned that someday some unbalanced fan is going to be persuaded by Twitterings that they have actual intimate knowledge of "their" celeb, and end up breaking into their house or something because of it. Not that crazed fans don't exist outside the 'net, but Twitter just seems the perfect conduit for that sort of thing, y'know?