Hold the phones! Sound the alarms! Call the children and wake the neighbors! Self-proclaimed “neo-luddite” Lily Allen has returned to Twitter.
Maybe she’s social networking because recent incidents suggesting she has fallen off the wagon once again (weight gain, alcohol and/or drugs) could compromise her winning a BRIT Award on February 16, for which she’s just received three nominations. Convenient. Silence is only golden for us common common folk, J.D. Salinger, and Harper Lee.
Here’s what happened back in September. According to The Telegraph back in October:
The 24-year-old singer, a notorious social networking addict, has reportedly given up internet technology for good and is branding herself a “neo-luddite.” Her only remaining means of communication are believed to be a landline phone and an old mobile phone, which she leaves at home when she goes out.
She was sending about 20 tweets a day at the time, which is extreme for me, par for the course for a technophile (or her publicist).
Here’s Lily talking to The Telegraph in December:
“I just had this revelation that Facebook, blogging, all those things were becoming a total addiction. I’d be with my boyfriend or my mum and they’d have just got half of me. So I put my BlackBerry, my laptop, my iPod in a box and that’s the end. I won’t use email, I play records on vinyl, I don’t blog. I’ve got more time, more privacy. We’ve ended up in this world of unreal communications and I don’t want that. I want real life back.”
She signed off with “I am a neo-luddite, goodbye” on September 28, 2009, never to return to Twitter again.
I guess “real life,” which involved real hardships like Christmas in Jamaica, trips to India and New Zealand, and a concert tour in Australia, just became too ordinary. She was practically Amish, after all.
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Who?
Yeah. I was gonna ask, “Why is River Tam on Deceiver?”
Maybe she’ll start writing some “letters of truth” ala Britney.
Lol I’m a neo-luddite too! Except I call it ‘too broke to own an iphone or blackberry’ and ‘too busy working to spend half my life online’.
I’m only vaguely aware of this person’s existence (is she a singer?) but she’s not at all attractive.
Who is this Lily Allen you speak of? Oh, wait. I don’t care. =/
I second the who? and the I don’t care. I gave up on Twitter a long time ago and wish others would follow suit.
Whoop-de-shit!
But, AAW, Twitter is gonna save the world! or have you missed the news lately?