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I don't think a colleague and friend would disrespect someone for making an introduction to a kid, even if the kid turned out less cool than thread OP. Nowaday
by gowld 5y ago
I don't think a colleague and friend would disrespect someone for making an introduction to a kid, even if the kid turned out less cool than thread OP.
Nowadays kids can befriend celebs on Twitter. It's easier, not harder.
- dylan604 5y agoGood grief. There's a huge difference in following someone on Twitter vs a personal email account. You think someone you meet that knows $famousCelebrity is just going to give you their email account? Really?
- mulmen 5y agoThe favorable reading is that friending a celebrity on Twitter is a historically low effort way to make contact, even if it is correspondingly low value. Everyone is “close”. This means there are more opportunities for connection. It smells like a natural progression from the “old” internet of newsgroups and email. Is friending a celebrity on Twitter the same as getting an email or phone call from Ken Thompson on how to fix your old Bell hardware just because Lorinda Cherry put him up to it? No, of course not. But that connection could happen over Twitter.