Call it a premature anti-climax! A young lady who lived the social networking site leaving for the sake of her love life!
That is what UK pop diva Lily Allen did recently to save her love life, who left all the social networking sites for the sake of her boyfriend, as their love life was on the verge of a collapse due to her obsession with online social networking.
"I am a neo-luddite, goodbye.” she said after signing off for ever from Twitter and MySpace and also getting rid of her Blackberry.
"My boyfriend gets really angry. He's like: 'I want to spend some time with you, do we have to have one and a half million people in the room with us?'," the celebrity with 1,665,589 followers on Twitter said once.
Incidentally Allen is not the one and only person to leave the virtual space for the sake of love. Teen acting sensation Miley Cyrus had also quit the microblogging phenomenon, saying that tabloids were using the Tweets as fodder for their stories. She too wanted her "normal" private life back.
The actor and singer later said that she didn't miss Twitter after quitting it. “I thought I was going to miss it a lot more than I do, but I haven't even really looked at other people's, which is really weird,” she told the Disney star. “I don't really miss it. It's kind of odd.”
However, the website (http://www.mileycyrus.com/) of the 'Sex And The City' fame is still very live. (And probably her farewell to Twitter has increased the traffic to the site.)
Then there was this pop star Trent Reznor who also quit Twitter. After deleting his account he even reportedly made a hot declaration that “idiots rule” the online social network.
Interestingly the pop start is said to have returned to Twitter in honor of the 20th anniversary of his rock project NIN’s breakthrough album, Pretty Hate Machine. Nine Inch Nails (NIN) was founded by him in 1988. Incidentally his 'secret' marriage was also publicized via Twitter only. And now he is again ruling the online network. What does that mean?
Coming to the media front there are many such examples of such 'divorce'. Journalist and Newsweek columnist Steve Tuttle quit Facebook in July, only after writing an emotional piece in Newsweek. (Hope Bukha Dutt won't take inspiration from Tuttle!)
So what does all this mean? The basic problem is about privacy.
Social-networking sites allow seemingly trivial gossip to be distributed to a worldwide audience, sometimes making people the butt of rumors shared by millions of users across the Internet, says ScientificAmerican.com in an article, "Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?"
Even in Sasi Tharoor's controversial tweet episode the basic question was about the privacy only. A minister's privacy is different from a common man's privacy!
Talking about privacy, we hit upon a privacy statement by Allen in her MySpace profile (http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic). “Most people don't know how to make love”! And she is back to her lover!
Tail end: “I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move,” Madonna. Is the parting ways with social networking sites too a career move for celebrities?
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10/24/2009 at 5:25 AM
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