"Popular" Artist?

"As popular artists, we get too many individual messages to respond to everyone"?

Checks inbox: 0 emails from people wanting to be my friends.

That's funny, that article almost gave me the impression a lot of people are approaching ME to be my artist friends. 

Oh please. No one does that. The only artist who are even CLOSE to that level of popularity and busy-ness are the artists and animators who work full time at a studio. Or who you notice attend cons, or whose webcomics actually have more than 2 readers. (All of which I am none of the above. I've ALWAYS hoped other artists will approach me for friendship. I'm not famous or popular enough to say otherwise). If I was getting approached by a lot of people wanting to befriend me online, I'd have mentioned it in my blog a long time ago. Such is not the case. Not with me anyway. Sometimes I wish more people would figure out it's okay to talk to me directly and become my art buddies.

I get zero comments on my tweets and blog BECAUSE no one is approaching me to become their mentor and friend. I don't know why some artists are so touchy and temperamental about being approached for friendship online. I'm certainly not above being approached, and neither are a lot of artists. Well, not the ones that are unemployed anyway.