It should be no surprise that I'm on an on-line networking web site. Blogger's probably just one, but there are others (I'm sure you can guess). Anyway, like some folk I fall prey to getting caught up in celebrity. You know, being the fan of another human being, believing they can do no wrong, that they are certainly wonderful people in all aspects and most definitely deserving of my accolades and attention.
Scarlett Johannson, please write back.
On these networking sites you can most certainly find some representation of someone that entertains you. Maybe that band you <3 or someone from the evening news. In my case, some female personalities from a certain channel that starts with a letter and ends with a number. That's not M2.
Anyway, surprise surprise they were on the network, and I found them. What follows are the usual stages of disbelief, uncertainty, curiosity and finally elation/acceptance. What happened in this case, I was all ready to become a close compatriot. Until I noticed that magic phrase. You know, the one that says, "So and so has XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
w.t.f.
I could become one of many, but honestly what would be the point? A face in thousands, probably saying the same things "Thanx for the add!" "U R HOTT" "Please writ me bak k." (no joke) that have all been there before.
What drove me nuts upon perusing the pages was the kinds of comments, much the adorementioned poetry above. While some nice, others a majority of either creepy, sexual, asking for a return message, anything. Holy crap. Maybe that's why celebrities lock themselves up in LA behind a sea of bodyguards: If people do that on the net, how will the be in public? And while some comments are true gems, the are truly lost to the number of one-lliners and requests. I don't even expect a message back if I were to send one but I'd at least like to know whoever didn't have to dig thru 30 "plz picz" messages they had before getting to mine. As with most things, 90% is god-awful save the genuine 20%. And you just contribute more stuff, more drivel that's probably not being read due to the volume of stuff that preceded you.
Regardless, how about less hero worship, more demands for non-Star Trek or street fury programming? Less being enamored for people on tv and more going out to play?
I will say this though:
Thank you to the 10% who go out there and put stuff up worth reading :)
