uh oh

[kindkit]

One of the good things about becoming interested in an RPF fandom or two is that there's the potential for endless canon. It helps offset my tendency to devour the entirety of a fandom (canon and fanfic) in about two weeks and then get bored.

One of the bad things is that you find yourself thinking, "Huh, maybe I should get a Twitter account after all."

*headdesk*

I promise I will never use it for evil (e.g., posting about what I had for lunch). I'll probably never post anything at all. But for a long time I've vaguely wanted to follow Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and yesterday I learned that Richard Fidler (formerly of DAAS) has a Twitter; that was the tipping point.

Unfortunately, there'll probably be ice skating in hell (on the road paved with frozen lawyers, natch¹) before Paul McDermott gets a Twitter. But I can hope.


¹Good Omens. If you haven't read it, you're missing out.

Comments

[pixiestikks]

Yeah... I keep wanting to get a twitter too, just to follow the same people you mentioned. None of my friends have twitter, so I would just be "following" a bunch of celebrities. Which keeps tipping the balance in favor of NOT getting one, but I may give in eventually. Actually, I probably will, but not soon. Are you facebook friends with Tim Ferguson?

[kindkit]

Well, I'm following the WithTimFerguson twitter, but I don't know whether Tim himself ever makes any of those posts or if it's an assistant. Tim doesn't seem to have a personal twitter, although the WTF twitter does follow the sort of people I'd expect Tim to follow, such as rfidler (Richard's twitter), Wil Anderson, Julia Gillard, and a student community TV twitter from the Royal Melbourne Institute where Tim teaches.

Having a twitter just to follow celebrities makes me feel a bit stalkertastic, but then, they do choose to publicly post this stuff.

[pixiestikks]

I don't know about the twitter, either. I know the With Tim Ferguson website isn't Tim. Tim's facebook is actually him, though, and most of the people he's "friends" with are fans.

[kindkit]

Sorry, I managed to completely miss the word "facebook" in your previous comment. Oh, god, I hate Facebook, and yet the thought of reading Tim's posts is awfully tempting. I do have a Facebook account, but it's in my real name, as all FB accounts are supposed to be, and I do try to keep my meatspace ID and my fannish ID separate. *sigh*

[pixiestikks]

Awww, I love facebook! But Tim's posts are not really personal. He posts funny links, links to his projects, and people post stuff on his wall, some of it funny, some of it just annoying.

Though, I've got to tell you, sometimes his comments are hilarious, like the one he wrote a while back about himself dressing like Princess Leia and working as a geisha, and how he found it exhilarating and humiliating at the same time... I mean, WOW.

[kindkit]

Now I'm going back and forth about whether to add him. The real name thing freaks me out, and so does claiming be a "friend" of someone I'm a fan of but don't know personally. But I do want to read his posts. *twitches*

[kindkit]

Do you have a link to Tim's facebook? I can find a Facebook fan page for him, and a page for WTF, but nothing that looks like an actual personal facebook page.

[pixiestikks]

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=769701339&ref=ts

[kindkit]

Thank you! There are about 500 Tim Fergusons on Facebook, and I gave up searching after the first couple of pages worth of links didn't pan out.

And aww, he lists Good News Week as one of his favorite TV shows.