On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> That misses the point of Twitter and Facebook and social media in general. > There is a level of authenticity on these mediums, which is what makes them > appealing and generally successful. Now, is it okay to have a ghost writer > on a Twitter account? Sure. But if you're going to mix and match, you have > to at least identify when you're doing (or not doing) that (think > @whitehouse, where President Obama ends his tweets with his initials). > Otherwise, when people find out you're not who you are, they tend to feel > betrayed (in a mild sense, of course). > > To proactively counter an obvious exception: As for George Takei (who we > found out has his husband running his Facebook), I'd describe his social > presence as less "George Takei, actor" than "George Takei, George Takei". > To borrow his line from The Big Bang Theory, "You try and stretch as an > actor – do Strindberg, O'Neill – but all they want is 'Course laid in, > Captain.'." Okay. So I guess what I meant was, if celebrities have such thin skin that they feel the need to issue late night retorts to comic jibes, their publicist should ban them from social media in general. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
