I’m friends with or a fan of Rafael Nadal, not sure which. His updates are a nice reminder when I should turn on The Tennis Channel.
Yes, and yes. 
Oops, ignore the second “yes”…
I’m FBF with John Elder Robison, author of “Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Asperger’s”, who among other life accomplishments created Ace Frehley’s flaming guitar. He’s an amazing photographer as well as a compelling author.
I’ve also got author and web journalist Rob Rummel-Hudson on my list, he’s more of an internet celebrity I suppose, because his book “Schuyler’s Monster” came into being out of his longstanding blogging experiences talking about his daughter’s congenital brain malformation and how it’s affected their lives and his approach to fatherhood. I had interacted with him just a bit before we met up on Facebook. He’s also a friend of Mr. Robison above, I can’t remember if I sent a request to Robison because I saw him on Rob’s friend list, I think I may have done, recognising the name after I read Robison’s excellent book.
I’m also FBF with several people from my “meat world” life who just happen to be more or less well known in certain circles for something or other, mostly folk music.
I went to elementary school with Grant Imahara from Mythbusters. Really nice guy (then and now), and he remembered me when I friended him. We’ve exchanged a couple of notes, but that’s about it.
I played tennis for a while with one of the characters of a current sitcom, and I’m friends with her on Facebook. Again, just an occasional email exchanged.
The only other person I can think of is a DJ for a local NPR affiliate, and he and I have actually had dinner and such. I’d count him the most as a real friend.
I am “friends” with some of the local television news anchors, but I don’t know any of them in real life, and I’m really just friends with them because some of their posts are entertaining.
Same for me and my favorite musician, Sarah Fimm. She’s not at all famous, but is the closest I come to following a celebrity.
Does he discuss being in a band with Stevie Ray Vaughn in (I think) high school?
I found Matt Damon’s personal Facebook page and friended him, but he either ignored it or never accepted it. Sheesh, he never calls, he never writes…
I am, however, Facebook friends with Jenny Parrott, who most of you probably don’t know. She’s the lead singer and guitarist of an up-and-coming band called Shotgun Party.
Yes! He tells about it in one podcast, and in another they play an entire song featuring SRV, who was about 14 at the time. He, predictably, absolutely wails. There’s also a picture.
I read somewhere that Buzz Aldrin accepts all friend requests. Yes THAT Buzz Aldrin.
So I friended him. Because hey…Buzz Aldrin.
All my friends on facebook are friends with someone famous: me.
I don’t really understand the premise of this. If I search for a famous person on facebook, I get dozens of results. What do you do – friend all of them?
I run a famous person’s FB page. He’s far too busy and computer-illiterate, although he has me show him messages and stuff every few days.
We friended everyone up to 5,000, then made a fan page as well. He gets dozens to over a hundred messages a day from fans. He reads a lot, but only responds to a few, much like his regular mail.
He gets friend requests from other celebs, but generally it’s not really Bruce Willis, but some idiot in mom’s basement pretending to be.
If you look at the multiple Famous Person pages you see, you can tell they’re mostly fake.
If the pictures are all taken from the web, or there’s no friends or family or candid pix, they’re fake.
If they’re personal pix, family pix, or the kind that only a friend would take, there’s a better possibility of them being real.
Extra hint: Payton Manning isn’t spelled that way!
No, you work out which one is the famous one.