281. Worldly Language – 2 Celebrities
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| The changing world of communication |
A complete revolution has taken place in the last few months, if not days, with regards to celebrities Twitting.
Not even a year back was I making my usual snarky comments that celebrities, were only full of themselves, twitting just about what they were doing, who they were seeing, what performances they were giving bla...bla... bla... and that I, for one, would not be following anyone whose tweets read like a bus time-table.
Then you got academics, authors, religious leaders, politicians, royalty, philosophers who may be famous in their own right but could hardly acclaim the same status of celebrity as a Lady Gaga would. The tweets of these public figures were exactly as you would expect them to be in real life, preaching to the converted- nothing to attract wayward sinners and anti-academic individuals like myself. They were all about reflecting their own books, theories, status, appearing like a continuous, stuffy, boring litany of me, me, me... and my, my, my... So, they too were left well alone- not considering there are more writers than readers, more simple people than academics, and by far, far more sinners than saints.
Yet now I am following and RT like mad, members of the British Royal Family and my favourite of all times, the Pope at the Vatican. Why? Because they have one notch above the rest of those who continue to tweet as if they were a bus time-table- because they are not boring, they are not all about themselves; they show themselves in a light that is related to events and people around them, but above all, because they have learnt the language of the world; the language of ordinary people, the language of interaction, the language of friendship, the language of Twitter and Facebook.
What does this mean? It means that such individuals can now reach out to those who wish to interact with them and which in the past was not in the least possible. Of course it is not the actual Queen or the Pope who do the tweeting, these elderly dears probably haven’t a clue which buttons to press, but that is of no consequence- they know about it, they are in control and at the end of the day it is their spirit that transpires, no matters whose fingers they use to do the clicking... it is still them!
These public figures have opened up a means of communication with the rest of mankind, not on the usual topics which would otherwise be considered “appropriate” and “respectful” but on thorny, undignified and even blasphemous subjects which, like I said, where not possible in the past...
And that in itself is a revolution.
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