Some celebs just aren’t the smartest people.

Not since Prince Charles of Wales told then-mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles of his desire to be her feminine hygiene product and his wanting to be her knickers has an adulterous celebrity been so humiliated via telephone communiqué. His royal getting-baldness was busted back in 1993, when a British tabloid published a transcript of the conversation. It was the comparative Stone Age of technological awareness, not to mention the fact that Charles was engaging in a one-on-one conversation for which for which he had every expectation of privacy.

Athletes, entertainers and, of course, politicians are all amazingly ignorant when it comes to the day-to-day digital activities most everyone take for granted. From cell phones to social networking, there are plenty of busted spouses and Facebook fired among us plebes to prove it. But unlike us, celebrities and politicians know they’re being watched.

Tiger Woods, the most recent example of the electronically naïve and famous, has been a celebrity long enough to understand the advanced tools available to the gossip machine. This rock star of the golf kingdom obviously knows enough about cell phones to leave a recorded message. Obviously, he isn’t smart enough to leave out his name.

“Hey, it’s, uh, it’s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Um, can you please, uh, take your name off your phone. My wife went through my phone. And, uh, may be calling you. If you can, please take your name off that and, um, and what do you call it just have it as a number on the voice mail, just have it as your telephone number. That’s it, OK. You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye.”

Then there are the text messages he’s sent another reported mistress, Jaimee Grubs:

Tiger: having an asian mother and a military father you cannot and will not ever be full of yourself
Jaimee: I have fun with u, you always make me smile and I am not afraid to be myself or say anything to u ... the day I met u I thought u were going to kick me out a few times but for someone reason you didn't and u have told me numerous times I talk to much but slowly as I get to know u iI think your absolutely amazing
Tiger: you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon

And a string of emails to Rachel Uchitel:

"Every time I think about it, I get a lump in my throat. Some of the other parts of your past really get to me. I don't know what person I was falling for so hard. The one I got to know on the phone, e-mail, text and in person. Or the one who likes famous people.”

Tiger has a family and millions upon millions of endorsement deals to lose, yet he still willingly and purposely left an incriminating voice mail on some woman’s cell phone … along with “300-plus sexy text messages”, according to the woman on the other end.

Now if you’re, say, Britney Spears or maybe Fox News, odds are some nerd or crazed fan is stalking your Twitter account and starts sharing information about you. Not much you can do about that other than remain vigilant so you can run damage control.

Same goes for Paris Hilton who lost her mobile phone from which some clever code monkey purloined both the address book and images and posted them on the Web back in 2005 during the height of her “Simple Life” fame. Except maybe if you’ve already had your homemade porn tape released against your will, you’d want to be more careful about the images you record following that learning moment. Not so much for Hilton, whose hacked images revealed a bounty of nudie camphone shots.

Though I don’t have the heart to sympathize with Miley Cyrus for being forced to abandon her 2 million followers in Twitter a few months ago for reasons she poignantly described in her DIY “hip-hop” video she posted on YouTube. “Everything that I type and everything that I do, all those lame gossip sites take it and make it news,” the “Hannah Montana” star “rapped.” She quickly retorted by re-rapping about other tween things like skin problems and living for people.

Want to avoid technological humiliation? Just live like every second of your life is being recorded for public consumption.