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The more I hear from James Franco, the more he seems to suffer from John Mayer syndrome. It’s everyone else’s fault if he doesn’t look perfect and he’s the ultimate arbiter of taste. The last story we reported on this guy had him blaming Anne Hathaway for the fact that he was a lackluster Oscar host in comparison to her energetic personality and claiming that he did the best job he could. Now Franco, who has been on Twitter for about six weeks and gotten in at least two Twitter bitch fights by scrawling messages over photos (Perez Hilton-style), claims that “social media is over… you heard it here first.” No we didn’t asshole, John Mayer quit Twitter back in September and said some similar sh*t about how the world revolved around his choices and how Twitter was crap anyway. Miley Cyrus beat them both and explained it better than either of them could. She quit Twitter in September of ’09.
James Franco on how social media is dead since he couldn’t figure out how not to look like a dick online:
Franco doled out his own advice on Thursday, telling students who aren’t given writing opportunities in the classroom to not give up: “If you want to write, make the time. We all have an hour or two a day that can be used for surfing Facebook or writing. No one is going to beg any new writer to write.”
On the subject of social media, Franco told reporters that he’s scaling back his own Twitter presence. (His live tweeting while co-hosting the Oscars generated quite a lot of buzz.)
“Social media is over. Still up there. Going down. You heard it here first,” said the actor whose Twitter account is currently still active, but private. Explaining his approach to tweeting thus far, Franco told POLITICO, “My thought was ‘this is my Twitter. I can do whatever I want.’ But certain companies I work with contacted me about what I was saying.”
Of course it’s other people’s fault that Franco got called out for behaving badly on Twitter. He didn’t do anything wrong.
Here’s what John Mayer said about Twitter when he quit back in October:
“It occurred to me that since the invocation of Twitter, nobody who has participated in it has created any lasting art. And yes! Yours truly is included in that roundup as well. Let me make sure that statement is as absolute and irrevocable as possible by buzzing your tower one more time: no artwork created by someone with a healthy grasp of social media thus far has proven to be anything other than disposable.”
[From Popsugar]
Wow, John Mayer is so much better at couching his douchiness in intellectualism than James Franco, and he doesn’t even have a Masters degree!
Miley Cyrus explained it better than the both of them, and it wasn’t because people don’t create art and literature on Twitter, it’s because she wasn’t using it constructively. As opposed to both Franco and Mayer, she realized that it wasn’t healthy to share so much online and she took responsibility for that being her own fault. She didn’t blame the platform:
“I was kind of, like, tired of telling everyone what I’m doing. I hate when I read things and celebrities are complaining like, ‘I have no personal life.’ I’m like, well that’s because you write everything that you’re doing,” she told Movieline.
“So I was that person who was like, ‘I’m so sad. I have no real, normal life, everyone knows what I’m doing.’ And I’m like, well that’s my own fault because I’m telling everyone. And then I’d tweet, ‘I’m here,’ and I’d wonder why a thousand fans are outside the restaurant. Well, hello, I just told them. So I’m just, like, kind of thinking [Twitter] doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Everything I’m saying is not really going with what I’m putting on the Internet,”
[via Popeater]
So Franco and Mayer both got owned by an 18 year-old girl. Social media isn’t over and will always serve a purpose. It just depends on how you use it. Leave it to Miley to say that so well while the douches blame the technology.
Note: I’m not a Twitter fan because I’m a perfectionist and I get antsy when I think I’m missing some important piece of information. It’s hard for me to let go and not report on every single detail of a story, for instance, and for that reason I find Twitter maddening. I met a woman at a party recently who loves Twitter for the support she gets from people with her same medical issues. That really brought home to me the power of the platform and how it’s being used by non-celebrities to connect and share. Just because I don’t enjoy it doesn’t mean it’s not changing the way we communicate. I enjoy Facebook though as it’s easier to manage and has better features.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in James Franco, Twitter
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After the Oscars he should have joked about himself, make a goofy indy movie and everything would have been fine.
He keeps digging himself a bigger hole.
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wow, he’s a bimbo. im seriously let down.
it’s not a one-off drug/alcoholic misstep, its repeatedly dumb behaviour
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I’m sad … he has disappointed in so many ways [sigh] dong-haze over with this one.
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“He keeps digging himself a bigger hole.”
True, when you find yourself in a hole stop digging. For it is better to say nothing and have people think you’re a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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I’ve never liked him. And, yes, even with all the “likes” in the Miley quote she still totally owned both of them.
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I’m embarassed that I know this, but apparently Miley is back on Twitter.
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I mean it’s like duh, who knew, you know? Yee-ha, that being said, then that is said. It is what it is. You oughta know.
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I am so disappointed in him. I remember seeing a talk show interview where he was very funny and charming. Then I looked up some other interviews and I was already wondering what happend to the charming guy. He just seemed rude and answered impolitely when one interviewer talked about James’ studies and made a mistake.
He really seems to think that he is so brilliant and a serious artist. Kind of reminds me of Sean Penn.
It was also very rude when he made fun of that Oscar writer’s career considering that he himself was up for an Oscar. If you think you are better than everybody, more talented etc. try not to show it…
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Miley just got back on twitter. She stated she did it for her fans and to follow Charlie Sheen.
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@DenG. Giggle; snort.
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douche. twitter is okay, it actually is better than most social networking sites as it LIMITS the amount of information a person can share. there’s only so much one can say in 140 characters.
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He’s a douche. A self-involved, douche.
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Ugly douchebag!!
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as long as you use the platform with responsibility i find twitter very helpful although i’m still not convinced to make an account
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No Art? There are some amazing writers on twitter. I don’t do twitter much, but you don’t have to follow a Kim K. There is Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice (bit preachy these days) whatever thats all I can think of, but you don’t have follow the tabloid crowd. I think after a while it gets a bit dull who ever it is.
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I don’t get the James Franco hype. I don’t think he’s that great. I found myself feeling sorry for Anne Hathaway while watching the Oscars because she was trying to save it from sucking and James Franco was just a boring douche.
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He always looks ill. He has this yellowish pallor & lack-luster look about him. Drugs??
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I don’t get him either. He’s an arrogant douchebag and he looks like the creepy guy at Radio Shack that you hope won’t get your name from your credit card receipt and find you on Facebook. But I also don’t especially get Twitter. I’d say I’m a hopeless Luddite but I loves me some Facebook. Life in the new world is full of contradictions like that.
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Well I think all the protests in the Middle East that were in part planned on Twitter and actually have an effect on world policy have more to do with the relevancy of Twitter and other social media than whether or not a narcissistic movie star is tweeting.
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Social media does suck.
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Lol. Mayer’s an “artist”.
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I’m happy to say that I always knew this guy was a douche.
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I think he’s completely bought into his own hype. How lame.
Love that ditzy Miley recognized her own responsibility, but these 2 adult men blame the platform and act like they’re now too good for it. They remind me of little kids who, when losing a game, declare the game sucks and run off crying.
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HA I love that miley was actually more mature about it than these “men”. However, she did just start up a twitter again except its about her concert tour so she keeps tweets mainly about her music and not her personal life so much. I hate Franco SO much! What a douche
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Social media might suck, but Franco is still a huge tosser (or douchebag to the Americans here
).
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@spinner I was going to say the same thing. He has the pasty, junkie skin with yellow-brown eye shadows. Pot and prescription pills.
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Leave him alone, he’s nowhere near as douchy as John Mayer, or Chris Brown, or Charlie Sheen. He’s problem is thinking he’s better than everyone, which he has a right to really.
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Ya, Miley is back on Twitter, because she supports Charlie Sheen & his winning ways. The lesson here: never use Miley as a positive example of maturity…
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I think he’s right — thankfully. Social media has it’s place, but it has caused a lot of confrontation that isn’t the spirit of the platform. Whoops, guess the fame whores who use it for their own self promotion didn’t figure on that. Dumb.
Franco just needs to BE A WRITER — and THEY ARE LARGELY SILENT.
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