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Social Media is Dead: Why Do The Rich and Famous Care So Much?
Because it’s their life; they don’t like it when we live ours
We were playing music downtown the other night and met up with Tony, a young musician and comedian, and his girlfriend Kelsey. I hadn’t talked with them for a while, so we were catching up.
I said, “Tony, you’re so awesome, I know you could have a big audience. Have you put your music online?”
“No,” he said. “I love performing for people.”
By this, he meant in person, the way we do, in our local area, with people we know at places we enjoy.
He said that Bob Dylan (Tony does not play like Dylan — at all) commented that he would have been happy playing for 40 people every night. No arenas, no crowds of fans, no millions, no “fame.”
“That’s all I want,” he said. “That would make me happy.”
“You seem happy,” I said. He and Kelsey agreed: they were happy.
Then Tony said, “I think social media is dead.”
“I look at my phone, and even if I don’t want to, I see some guy setting a pumpkin on fire and sticking his bare ass into it.”
Which, I thought, pretty much says everything there is to say about social media.
