Superstar cluster-Zuck as Facebook tries out celeb-only edition Facebook is building an anti-social network which will ban ordinary people and only allow celebrities beyond its virtual velvet rope. Zuck's advertising empire is reportedly working on a "VIP app" that non-famous people - whom Elizabeth Hurley once famously described as "civilians" - will not be allowed to use. Sources told …
Dunno about the definition, but I had to search who Melanie Sykes was.
Then again, I'm a boring old fart who thinks that the cast of Blake's 7 are celebs, so I probably wouldn't notice if the celebs that Zuck thinks are celebs disappeared up their own arseholes.
Which hopefully they will do sooner, rather than later.
I know this isn't the right thread but since when has that ever stopped a commentard...
Waitrose do have self-service machines but they don't take cash. Which might be great for the reliability of the machine and saves a lot of time and effort filling/emptying them, but it means they get my card number and can track every single little purchase. (I know the merchant rules should prevent them retaining the card number but that doesn't stop them linking it to another unique id before deleting the actual card number.)
The point of celebs using twitter is that all their fans (mostly normal people) can see what they are up to. if the plan is to tempt celebs away from twitter into a private system that fans cant get access then I think Facebook has slightly mis-understood. If celebs want to go somewhere that nobody will see them, they could try myspace or google+
The point of celebs using twitter is that all their fans (mostly normal people) can see what they are up to.
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It's not entirely clear but I don't think thats the point.
It more like a 1 way filter, the celeb can make posts to FB which fans can follow and view but they can't friend the celeb directly. Then the celeb can keep track of what the fans are saying about their post without having to friend random people or join groups etc.
the celeb can keep track of what the fans are saying about their post without having to friend random people
They'll be saying "stuck-up cow, to busy to even have friends".
Fans like it when their favourite sleb "friends" them, and apparently sends them personal comments. They seem blissfully unaware (as does Farcebook) that the slebs themselves are too busy stuffing white powder up their noses to go near a computer, and it's all done by an army of PR people.
This new Farcebook service is just an extension of 'I'll have my people call your people".
"The legendary London rapper Wiley, known as the Godfather of Grime after inventing a genre of avant-garde electronic hip-hop, is one of Britain's most famous celebrity Twitterers."
Famous where, exactly? Never heard of him. Does he play a tune you can whistle?
ind you, I still don't see the point of Twitter so I don't use it. Doesn't look like I'm missing much.
I think the words "legendary London rapper" gives it away. Londoners think that anything that happens in their overpriced, traffic-choked, crime-ridden and garbage strewn warren is of great interest to the rest of Britain.
As a recovering Londoner, I know this isn't true. But I can understand why they think it. Admitting that other places are much nicer, en masse, might imperil the local religion - house prices.
Hey Professor.
Before clicking on any link, hover the mouse pointer over it. Then look at the status bar right at the very bottom of your browser window. It'll tell you where the link goes. Make it a habit to do this every time you follow a link.
(Of course the status bar text can be subverted by Javascript, but any site that's likely to do this isn't one I'm likely to allow Javascript for in any case.)
Good advice there Mr Roper, unfortunately the Windows 7 Taskbar has a tendency to pop up at the merest provocation ( Such-and-such wants updating, Autoplay when i only plugged my phone in to charge, etc) and obscures the bottom status bar of any application I'm actually using. If anyone can tell me how to prevent 'notifications' from causing the Taskbar to pop-up, I would be grateful!
(To pre-empt one solution: Nothing against Linux, but it isn't suitable for me)
Alright not in the conventional sense but I have 350 followers for my photography on Deviant Art, I'm more famous there than my brother-in-law or my Dad!
What a right load of cack! At which point exactly does someone become "famous" then Zuck? Number of stalkers? Number Twatter(tm) followers? Don't tell me it's the number of FB likes, I know of plebs like me with way too much time and way too many likes!
Lets face it, the only sort of people who will want to be on this zuckerlist are the sort of people that CRAVE attention from their whimpering public as a method of massaging their egos; whilst simultaneously demanding their right to "privacy"; yes the same people who tip off the papper-snappers when they step outside their front door to go to the local KFC days before releasing a diet book.
The people who are real "stars" are either A) more likely to have a "manged" FB/T presence run by a 3rd party team who keep us plebs happy with the latest goings on OR B) actually do have a public page that they post too.
So why are these people going to want to have a page on a separate system that only other stars are going to see? People at this level have agents to arrange their social lives, book holidays, arrange dinner invites or accept $10,000 invites for a PA.
Been waiting for this as a logical next step. I'm guessing is that the VIP areas are more like private fanclubs. The sort of place ordinary folk will need to pay to join, but with Facebook taking the subscription (probably on a share with the celebs). Publicity needs means celebs will still have some bits public, but then use the private space for exclusive or early release bits. So want to keep tabs on your idol? Pay for the privilege.
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