The act of sending out greetings (to famous people) through facebook(?)

I do that on Twitter all the time, and sometimes they actually do reply. I've never done it on Facebook though. I guess people just hope that the celebrity will read their posts and reply with thanks or something. On Twitter I think people are hoping for a response so that the celebrity's fans may follow them also. I know that's a main reason I post to celebrities or whatever is I'm hoping for a reply or retweet so I get more followers. I only have like 20 on my personal Twitter page.. blah!

Ha ha. Yah, some friends do this, don't they (I just never analyzed this!). Hmmmm. Perhaps that's the way these people express what they cannot actually say to these famous people personally? By doing a shout out (whether it's good or negative), one can feel like they are getting their message out "somewhere" - and get the support of others who feel the same way (but sometimes don't)? Lately I've been seeing "letters" to politicians on Facebook (must be near election time!!). Dear Mr. President or Dear Mr. Romney - or whomever. Like the letter is really going to reach these guys? Most likely not, but at least the message will be put out there to the Facebook peeps. They might get some type of response - better than getting absolutely nothing in trying to reach the actual person (I guess?). I have a friend who is always analyzing her favorite athletes/celebrities . . . their problems, what they need to do . . . she talks about them fanatically as if she knows them personally (which she doesn't, of course). She's one of those on FB who sends out these greetings - that's just so "her"! I rarely post things about famous people, and never "to" a famous person. I remember after one American Idol season, I mentioned that the other guy should have won . . . I didn't say "Hey Adam [Lambert], you should have won!"

No idea! Don't do FB but it is highly unlikely isn't it? anyway, I am so glad that a Brit won it. Andy - we love you and are so proud of you Only kidding around tonight

Well, there are a lot of famous people that do have their own fan pages on facebook and I could understand doing something like this if it is the official fan page of the celebrity. However, if it is just people that are posting their congratulations to someone from their status, then it doesn't make any kind of sense to me at all because there is pretty much no chance that the person that you were posting to will ever see the post that you'd made.

Hi friend, some celebrities have fb and twitter accounts, so they have the ability to see this kind of messages, so there is nothing wrong in sending greetings to the popular persons through fb, some times the celebrity can see the news, even some celebrities may reply this kind of wishes if they have free time

Famous people and celebrities do use Facebook, among them Vin Diesel, Megan Fox, Adam Sandler, Ashton Kutcher, Michael Phelps, Roger Federer, Selena Gomez, Shaq, among others. So there is no reason why they cannot interact with fans. Besides, using Facebook is the cheapest way to communicate with fans. Another advantage to them is that the use of the different social media on the Internet do not pose security threat compared to appearing personally in public. There are cases that due to their busy schedules, other celebrities would hire their close friends to maintain their sites. Famous people, celebrities, and even politicians use Facebook to expand their fan base. This is the cheapest and fastest method of reaching out to millions of fans and voters.

If it is an official account of Andy Murray , surely his secretary does inform him about the expectations of the people but not into details from whom or what. I understand people why they are sending congratulations to people they admire. It doesn't matter if he knows it or not.

I'm probably even more naive than you are as I do not have any interest in facebook at all. I do admire Andy Murray's first win which prompted me to response here... It's great to see how his fellow Welsh celebrities are congratulating him, Sir Sean Connery and Sir Alex Fergusson among them...