nasty comments posted on his twitter feed by people
posing as his fans. But the Badshah isn’t abandoning
social networking at any cost. He says he is moving to
Facebook.
While as it seems Bollywood in the whole has taken
to using social networking sites the scene is not so
rampant in other regional languages. Although there
is tremendous presence of netsavvy new gen celebrities
on both Facebook and twitter, South India mostly operates
upon the conventional mode for publicity. Oddly, the
celebrities only tweet about their personal happenings
– mostly like you and me – and refrain from
posting anything about their movies or other projects
they are associated in. Rarely ever do they write anything
about their movies. May be they are bound by disclosure
agreements or just that they do not want to earn the
ire of the movie’s publicist.
There are Facebook (like page) or Twitter accounts
in the name of most of the established senior actors
(such as Rajini, Kamal, Mohanlal and Mamooty) in South
India. They are largely fake / inactive with user’s
often posing questions that go unanswered. Even the
second generation stars like Vijay, Ajith, Vikram and
Suriya are not active in the social networking circle.
Hollywood has its own share of Facebook haters who
make no bones about speaking out on social networking
sites. Ironically, singer / actor Justin Timberlake,
who played the role of Sean Parker (one of Facebook’s
founders) in the movie The Social Network is a self-endorsed
Facebook hater. It roots from the fact that he is generally
not good with computers. He seems to have said, “I’m
sort of admittedly ridiculously stupid with computers.”
If that, you think is weird, Jesse Eisenberg who played
the role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the
super hit The Social Network doesn’t want to be
on any social networking sites. He apparently finds
writing about “the breakfast I tried to eat”
boring. Fair enough. The fact that he performed the
passionate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on screen
to perfection deserves mention (especially since he
has contrasting views about Facebook than Zuckerberg).
Another self-proclaimed Facebook hater, who famously
once stated that, “he would rather have a prostate
exam on live television by a guy with very cold hands
than have a Facebook page” is George Clooney.
Now if you are George Clooney and are constantly hounded
by paparazzi and stalked by fanatic fans who want a
piece of him it’s only natural that you want to
do yourself a favor by not creating a Facebook page.
Few significant film stars from the current generation
who do not feel much about Facebook include Jennifer
Aniston, Kristen Stewart, Drew Barrymore, Robert Pattison
and Keira Knightley. Miley Cyrus who was all over Twitter
and Facebook recently pulled out of the sites because
it dawned on her that the experience is ‘dangerous’
and ‘kind of lame’.
But those haters are only a drop in an ocean of celebrities
who often provide you with hour by hour updates using
heir tweets or wall posts. Experts say celebs can’t
afford to stay off social networking sites for obvious
reasons (that they are easy – and probably safe
as well – to interact with their followers). There
is another business sprouted surrounding this; websites
that help you locate your favorite celebrity’s
facebook or twitter updates. One such is theofficialprofileof
dot com.
Although a cliché, it’s no more relevant
than it is now to say that ‘the world has shrunk’.
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