Exactly. Would you rather blindly believe that someone that is particularly dickish is a good person?
For me though, it's less of that and more of finding out that certain actors really do just love talking and meeting their fans, and they are awesome people. It gives us just a little bit more hope that we might meet them and be able to hang out one day, as unlikely as it still is. It also gives us confidence to see that their everyday interests and thoughts as well and see that we aren't so different.
But the key word there is "blindly". I'd like to think I don't follow/believe anything "blindly".
I do think, though, that the notion that "they are people just like us" is a problem. They AREN'T just like us, and if you think they are, then I give you "Paris Hilton", "that idiot kid mama boohoo or whatever (I can't even remember her name)", "Jon and Kate", etc. Most people - including many celebrities - are not equipped mentally, financially, socially, to handle intense fame, and it isn't entertaining to me to watch people flame out.
I ignore Twitter, and will continue to do so. For me, the best example is Kiss. Of course when I was younger (I got into them in '78 or so, with Alive II) Kiss was DANGEROUS. They were mysterious. Were they even human? I wasn't sure. And even as I got older, and the makeup came off, they were something special. It was a thrill to meet them once at a meet and greet, but THEY WERE NOT JUST LIKE ME. Then grunge came, and it was supposed to "break down all the walls" and frankly, even though most of that was musically based on stuff I cut my teeth on, I could do without the whole thing. Now, the two bands that DO seem have a little mystery, that do seem to do things old school (Van Halen and AC/DC) get ripped across the coals for being "dinosaurs".
I dunno. I'd rather not see Gene Simmons in a footy pajama, or know DLR got busted for a nickel bag of weed, and I CERTAINLY don't want to know every one of their Freudian thoughts the instant it comes to their frontal lobe. Even now at 47 I want the Gene standing 40 feet in the air on a platform beating his chest like Thor, or DLR strutting around the stage with everyone knowing he could (and probably will try to) bang every girl in the arena.