Alarm bells are ringing in my head after the article in The Metro on the 23rd March entitled “Being ignored online is as bad as cyber bullying”.

Did you get that? Seriously, did you understand what that headline meant? It means that if you @ your favourite artist, or your mate, or a stranger even, on Twitter and they do not reply, they are cyber-bullying you. (even typing this has got me wetting myself with laughter). If you add an old mate on Facebook, or hit someone up on HI5 and they do not reply… they’re classed as bullies!

Being the fantastic journalist that I am (hold the applause) I’m fully aware that the headline was put there to make me think the above and then read it (now clap). So in true media puppet form, I had a nosy at the article and saw (excuse my patois) a whole leap ah suttin about statistics. Bore.

Confession; I don’t think it’s a bore. I studied psychology and I think it’s the most interesting thing in the world. Sidebar: Here’s a secret (don’t tell no one obviously) but when you’re told “50% of people thought *insert product here* was the best they ever used” it’s a big fat con! They’ve asked 10 people and made sure 5 people said what they wanted to hear. And as for the 10 people,  it’s ANY 10 people! They don’t even have to be objective! They could have been 10 workers from the actual company. They could have been paid to say it… Anything! Yeah they asked 10 people, but they didn’t tell you WHAT 10 people… dur. So the statistical part turns to sleep.

Anyways – back on track. So I read the article and it seems “Those who suffered online ostracism felt their confidence and sense of belonging substantially threatened”. Recently there’s been a lot of apologies flying around social networking sites from artists regarding not being about to reply to each and every fan, which is obvious, why should they? They actually have lives (we hope). So I’m thinking, to save the state of minds of millions of kids out there, artists should all us delete their Social Networking Sites and become inaccessible again like what they used to be in the olden dates.

Make music mysterious and fun again. I remember how much I used to love actually listening to the radio to see what’s out next and watching Top Of The Pops to see the latest music. It was exciting. Now I know I can just go on Twitter and see everything and anything.

Make music exciting again. Delete social networking sites!!!

Toodles

Sian.

P.s Obviously this is a crap idea cause no one really rates the charts anymore, but I do think the artists themselves shouldn’t have social networking sites if they can’t reply to everyone. They should make like Cheryl Cole and just have a fan page!!!