You think because you are a celebrity’s friend on Twitter and you read all their updates that you now feel like you are best friends, WRONG!  They have no clue who you are and they most likely do not even care. Especially in Los Angeles, you see celebrities on a daily basis, again, just because you have read about them in a trashy magazine or are a fan of theirs on Facebook does not mean you have the right to go up to them and ask to kiss baby Apple’s owie from her fall off of her tricycle.  This is also a huge misconception – just because you see a person play a character on television, DOES NOT mean that they are like that in real life, even reality television stars are not who they are perceived to be, so please, do me a favor and do not act like you know who these people are when you have no idea.

A good friend of mine is making her way up to celebrity status.  She was out one day and ran into someone that she had taken a class with, she did not know this person, but she did recognize him from her class.  He then proceeds to come up to her and tell her every little stat ever known about her via the internet.  He must have gone home after seeing her in class that first day and googled everything he could about her.  Honestly, if you really badly want to find out information about someone, thanks to the internet it is not hard these days, but going up to anyone who you found this information about and reciting it word for word is a little stalker-ish.  I know if someone were to do that to me, I would totally be standoff-ish towards that person from that day forward and even consider getting a restraining order.  Again, just because you know something about someone and it makes you feel closer to that person because you know a tad bit about their life, DOES NOT mean that you personally know them.

On occasion you can find a person who loves that kind of attention, but most people, even the average person does not like it when someone knows more information about them than their own mother.  I did know one person to that exception, my old roommate.  She was a pretty big indie model (you would not see her at Victoria Secret, but you may see her in other random magazines, etc.), she did not have to hold a regular 9-5 job, she made enough money selling her modeling prints and taking up modeling jobs all over the world.  She also had an agent who was trying to set my roommate up with her own pop group.  My roommate was multi-talented, she could paint like no other, she had an amazing voice, perfect little model and extremely talented dancer, she even wanted to get into acting, but I had never seen her act, so I cannot contest to that, although she was great at everything else, she was probably a talented actor too.  She was one of the very few people who loved all kinds of attention and she thought having a stalker had meant that you made it, she loved it.  She was also the kind of girl that would love to have the paparazzi follow her around all day, just to feel appreciated.  She, like I said was an exception. 

Moral of the story - just because you think you know someone or something about that person to make you feel closer to them, unless you are their actual best friend that they have a real conversation with on a daily basis (not just a one-sided Twitter convo) or are family, you DO NOT know them, they do not know you, do not approach them you stalker!