DarqByte

Alright, so recently I got on Twitter. All of my trillions of readers should know this, as I keep my Twitter feed running here on my blog as well.

In any case, I’ve begun following different celebrities, such as LeVar Burton and Wil Wheaton. I’ve also started following people whom I’m not sure if they can be considered celebrities, such as Libe Goad and Trixie 360. It’s gotten me to thinking about my level of excitement when they Tweet and, after I reply to something they’ve said, when they actually reply to me or reference something I’ve said publicly.

It’s semi-exciting for me when Wil Wheaton, for example, completely destroys my suggestion that Van Halen’s OU812 album is better than some other album out there, or when Trixie replies back to me in a discussion on music (see previous post, haha).

I think the reason for this is because Twitter is very social, and a lot of people get excited about the idea of being social with celebrities. Not only that, but social in a medium that makes the “average person” feel on the same level as a celebrity.

I mean, celebrities all eat and sleep like the rest of us, but we never get excited about that parallel. We don’t get excited about celebrities’ MySpace pages because we know they’re probably not the one doing the actual updates. But Twitter is different.

LeVar Burton, for example, is very active on Twitter and is a big proponent of other celebrities starting to use it. The fact that he uses it all the time probably makes people feel like they’re on a more personal level with him because in Twitter, they’re more like equals than anywhere else, be it financially, social status, etc.

So I’m just going to continue being happy that Trixie thinks I’m cool enough to reply to once in awhile, and that Wil Wheaton totally annihilated one of my opinions. lol