Which celebrities do it right?
1) I'm not on Facebook or most social media accounts, but I do have a read-only Twitter account and I follow (goes to check) 9 accounts, 7 of which are celebrity accounts. I went to update it today to add Joss' new account and started pondering what I really want out of a celebrity twitter.
I also follow Mark Ruffalo on Tumblr but came across that through someone else's reblog. I haven't gone looking for any celeb or news accounts there. It's not really what I want to use Tumblr for.
Times have definitely changed in that now we often have a slew of choices of whose accounts we want to follow and where, and most people who we might want to follow have social media accounts. However, I'm not sure that's always a great thing. I imagine all of us can think of cases where we'd just as soon not have discovered something about someone we were following.
People definitely handle their twitter accounts differently. Some hardly post. Some post rather too much. Some use their accounts only as alert services (and are probably not even the ones tweeting), and others use them for specific reasons. For example, 80% of Mark Ruffalo's Tumblr use is to promote causes, 10% to promote film projects, and 10% personal-style tweets. Some use it largely for personal tweets which can be too informal. And some seem to have no rhyme or reason for why they share particular things.
I find that I like my celebrity twitter accounts like I like celebrity con appearances. I want them to be professional -- friendly, fun, but ultimately doing a job. The celebrity who ends up oversharing, who shows up drunk, or who seems to take it as a platform to just promote their career with polite but generally uninteresting information just makes one cringe or yawn. It's not the easiest road to walk since they never get training for that sort of job, but it makes for an enjoyable experience when they get it right.
Anyone follow any celeb accounts that get things just right for you?
Speaking of being trained for tasks once you're famous, I stumbled across that article about John Boyega asking Robert Downey Jr. to mentor him when he realized his life was about to change. I thought it was pretty awesome both that he thought ahead about it and that RDJ was willing to offer his help.
2) Although I'm not as prone to motion sickness these days, I was extremely prone to it as a kid. Traveling with me was not fun. I found it interesting to discover that 70% of that may be genetic.
Other related traits are post-operative nausea and vomiting (check), altitude sickness (not so far), headache after red wine (true for my mom, I don't drink), and light headedness after exercise (probably explains why I can't exercise that hard).
Apparently these issues are connected to eye and ear development, blood sugar regulation, and neuron growth and function.
3) In a recent grocery store run I saw that Halloween costumes are out. Interestingly the boys had superheroes from Marvel whereas' the girls were from DC (Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl). I was just glad they had any and not just princess costumes.
I also spotted some shirts I wish they had in adult sizes. They were basically long-sleeved t-shirts with logos but the nifty thing is that they had wing fabric in between sleeve and torso, making them a bit capelike without an actual cape. Here's the Batgirl one:
What I was not expecting to find on that rack was this:
In case you can't read it, what they have included is 1 Serape, 1 straw hat. and 1 large black moustache. Although there are 2 adults in the picture the sizes looked like they were for teens.
Given the protests that have gone on at college campuses (and we're a college town) about ethnically themed parties you wouldn't think a store's buyer would be stupid enough to include something like this for Halloween. But clearly I would be wrong.
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I also follow Mark Ruffalo on Tumblr but came across that through someone else's reblog. I haven't gone looking for any celeb or news accounts there. It's not really what I want to use Tumblr for.
Times have definitely changed in that now we often have a slew of choices of whose accounts we want to follow and where, and most people who we might want to follow have social media accounts. However, I'm not sure that's always a great thing. I imagine all of us can think of cases where we'd just as soon not have discovered something about someone we were following.
People definitely handle their twitter accounts differently. Some hardly post. Some post rather too much. Some use their accounts only as alert services (and are probably not even the ones tweeting), and others use them for specific reasons. For example, 80% of Mark Ruffalo's Tumblr use is to promote causes, 10% to promote film projects, and 10% personal-style tweets. Some use it largely for personal tweets which can be too informal. And some seem to have no rhyme or reason for why they share particular things.
I find that I like my celebrity twitter accounts like I like celebrity con appearances. I want them to be professional -- friendly, fun, but ultimately doing a job. The celebrity who ends up oversharing, who shows up drunk, or who seems to take it as a platform to just promote their career with polite but generally uninteresting information just makes one cringe or yawn. It's not the easiest road to walk since they never get training for that sort of job, but it makes for an enjoyable experience when they get it right.
Anyone follow any celeb accounts that get things just right for you?
Speaking of being trained for tasks once you're famous, I stumbled across that article about John Boyega asking Robert Downey Jr. to mentor him when he realized his life was about to change. I thought it was pretty awesome both that he thought ahead about it and that RDJ was willing to offer his help.
2) Although I'm not as prone to motion sickness these days, I was extremely prone to it as a kid. Traveling with me was not fun. I found it interesting to discover that 70% of that may be genetic.
Other related traits are post-operative nausea and vomiting (check), altitude sickness (not so far), headache after red wine (true for my mom, I don't drink), and light headedness after exercise (probably explains why I can't exercise that hard).
Apparently these issues are connected to eye and ear development, blood sugar regulation, and neuron growth and function.
3) In a recent grocery store run I saw that Halloween costumes are out. Interestingly the boys had superheroes from Marvel whereas' the girls were from DC (Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl). I was just glad they had any and not just princess costumes.
I also spotted some shirts I wish they had in adult sizes. They were basically long-sleeved t-shirts with logos but the nifty thing is that they had wing fabric in between sleeve and torso, making them a bit capelike without an actual cape. Here's the Batgirl one:
What I was not expecting to find on that rack was this:
In case you can't read it, what they have included is 1 Serape, 1 straw hat. and 1 large black moustache. Although there are 2 adults in the picture the sizes looked like they were for teens.
Given the protests that have gone on at college campuses (and we're a college town) about ethnically themed parties you wouldn't think a store's buyer would be stupid enough to include something like this for Halloween. But clearly I would be wrong.
Comments at Dreamwidth
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