Do celebrities accept friend requests on Facebook, Twitter, etc.?

[Bekah]

This is probably a really stupid question...but when you friend celebrities on Facebook and other sites like that, do the celebrities actually sit on their computers and accept the friend requests, or do they have someone else do things like that for them?

[hauntedsnowfortâ„¢]

They have assistants do those things


It's unlikely a celebrity would ever read anything you write to them on Twitter or Facebook.


They get thousands of messages and Tweets a day from fans.

[Tj]

Well, some celebrities make their facebook so private that no one can request a friendship because if they were really famous they'd get soo many friend requests. That's why they have fan pages which you can "like". And also there's always people out there pretending to be them by making fake pages. Chances are, that if you are accepted by a "celebrity" it's probably not even them, cause their fan pages are usually updated by their publicists anyway.

[Isabella]

firstly, you should know that celebrties RARLEY have an actual facebook. It would most probley be a fan whose trying to pose as her and lie that they are actually that person.
For twitter, it is usaully the actual celebrity. They celberties accept them themselves, its there own twitter. They as well upload there own photos and write there own statuses.

[lovenickjonas97]

ok just FYI most celebrities act like REAL PEOPLE so they do check their facebooks and twitters themselves! they usually don't accept friend requests though because if they did they would have so many friends or people that they follow. the only time they do is if they're doing a special promotion or something where they accept friend requests.

[heavydutyguitar]

It depends on the level of the celebrity; "A-list" celebrities likely wouldn't, but other celebrities that aren't as prominent sometimes do. For the more prominent celebrities, many of them don't even manage their own social media presences - their publicists/public relations people/agents actually manage them on behalf of the celebrity.

Twitter allows much easier access as the streams are usually published to the public and all you need to do is "follow" the celebrity. Depending on how the celebrity handles social media, though, they likely won't "follow" you back (@ladygaga for example has 7.4 million followers, but only follows 145,000 people back). The reason for this is that when you follow someone back, it allows them to send you "direct messages" (private messages) which some people find intrusive.

By contrast, Facebook only allows any one person to have 5,000 friends which is problematic for celebrities who may have millions of fans. Typically they reserve their Facebook accounts for their "real" friends and they use Facebook "Fan Pages" to interact with their fans (where they may or may not respond to questions posed on the wall or discussion forums.

You have to be careful who you contact, though, because there are a lot of fake celebrity accounts on virtually every social media platform. Right now, only Twitter offers "Verified" accounts that denote an actual celebrity or corporation.