My issues, let me show you them
Oct. 7th, 2009 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanSo, we're sitting in the bar last night, as we do, and I mention how awkward it makes me feel, responding to tweets from Famous People (aka showrunners, actors, etc), and then wondering if they'll respond. Because that seems weirdly stalkery, doesn't it?
And a friend says "are you responding to every one of their tweets?"
"Oh hell no. Just occasionally, when they say something particularly comment-worthy."
"So, that's hardly stalkery, is it? I mean, they're on Twitter, so they're hoping you'll follow, yeah? And you have people who respond to your tweets, don't you? People you don't know, who follow you because they read your books?"
"That's different!" I say.
Why? Um... Because it is? Because... I have no idea why it is. I still feel oddly stalkery-awkward with this presumption of talking to Someone Famous I don't know (you famous people I do know are all fair game).
I still refuse to tweet to imaginary characters*, though (sorry, Rick Castle. You'll have to social network without me)
*The advantage to having fictional characters who are high-tech-adverse - nobody expects them to have a Twitter account or their own on-line presence. The cats, however, have been contemplating it...
And a friend says "are you responding to every one of their tweets?"
"Oh hell no. Just occasionally, when they say something particularly comment-worthy."
"So, that's hardly stalkery, is it? I mean, they're on Twitter, so they're hoping you'll follow, yeah? And you have people who respond to your tweets, don't you? People you don't know, who follow you because they read your books?"
"That's different!" I say.
Why? Um... Because it is? Because... I have no idea why it is. I still feel oddly stalkery-awkward with this presumption of talking to Someone Famous I don't know (you famous people I do know are all fair game).
I still refuse to tweet to imaginary characters*, though (sorry, Rick Castle. You'll have to social network without me)
*The advantage to having fictional characters who are high-tech-adverse - nobody expects them to have a Twitter account or their own on-line presence. The cats, however, have been contemplating it...
