You have to be living under a rock if you haven't heard of Twitter lately. Everyone is tweeting these days, even celebrities.

But why would a celebrity want to use Twitter? Don't we give them enough attention already? Aren't they always whining every day that they have no privacy? Why then would they go on Twitter and tell whoever wants to listen what they are doing or where they are eating dinner? Obviously for the attention. You want attention or you don't want attention? I can't tell.

I myself am following many celebrities on Twitter. It seems as though all they do is tweet amongst each other, which makes me ask the question, why can't they just call each other?

You may have heard recently that Ashton Kutcher was in a race with CNN to get to one million followers. Of course, once the word got out, Ashton was able to pass his goal. And strangely enough, when people tried to unfollow Kutcher, they received a message that said there was an error. I myself was following Kutcher and read his tweets. His tweets weren't words of wisdom but I wanted to know what all the hype was all about. I attempted to ask Kutcher a few questions as well as what his name on Twitter meant (aplusk) and never received anything back. Of course having over one million followers, perhaps my questions got lost in the mix. Does having so many followers defeats the purpose of Twitter in the first place, which is to network? If you have so many followers that you can't keep up with them, what is the use?

Celebrities are now taking over Twitter, from Miley Cyrus to Nicole Richie. Some are saying how Twitter is quickly becoming a celebrity playground. I guess fan pages aren't enough for celebrities anymore. Now they want to take over the social networking world. The more followers on Twitter or the more friend requests on Facebook, the more popular the celebrity, even if they don't talk to anyone other than their elite group of peers.

The best thing about these social networking sites is that we can choose to unfriend or unfollow these celebrities. After all, I am looking to network with people, not to be a groupie. I give everyone a chance though. If I attempt to talk with a certain celeb a few times and they do not respond, I then unfollow them and I think that is what everyone should do. If they do not want to network with "regular" folk then nobody should follow them.

Renee Porsia is a Realtor in Philadelphia. Visit her website to learn more or follow her on Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/reneeporsia.