Saturday, September 4, 2010

Justin Bieber retaliates via Twitter...is that OK?

Justin Bieber is one of the biggest pop singers on the planet right now. He is 16 and has had two platinum albums, and girls everywhere go crazy for him. Like most celebrities, he has a Twitter account (twitter.com/justinbieber) which boasts over five million followers. So, after an acquaintance of his friends hacked the friends phone to find Bieber's number and post it, he retaliated by posting that guy's cell number on his own Twitter page. Tweeting ' everyone call me 248------- :) or text' that kid received over 26,000 text messages from people thinking it was Justin Bieber they were contacting.

I am a big Justin Bieber fan, and I don't think it was necessarily wrong of him to tweet this in order to get the kid back. However, there are a few separate problems with this. First off, what fans are dumb enough to think a huge celebrity like him would post their real number? Did they think Justin was going to answer the phone or text them back? Lets be realistic here. Second, Bieber is sixteen-far from being grown up. It was immature, but more forgiving of someone who is a teenager adapting to the spotlight.

I talked to a few people about this, and someone mentioned he was just abusing his power as a celebrity. Knowing millions of people would see this tweet, he may have a gone a little too far. I agree (kind of), but the kid certainly learned his lesson

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