Insert Fame Here (Intro)

Well, I'm No One.

I'm your typical child of the Millennium, spending more time as his computer daily then outside.
I have a Myspace. Facebook. LiveJournal. And various other fad-accounts all over the Internet.
I've been to all of the pages. The pages of people who spread like wild-fire with their videos, pictures, music and other various creations. I've seen the evoloution of the internet, the living testament of the 1st Amendment.

Its funny how information will flow like it does. Its like a huge spider web. (World Wide Web? Hah. I await the day where I input UWW in front of my webpages. The universe is the limit.)

One person will create a blog. Talking about how their life is miserable. They lost their job, and their girlfriend is cheating on them again. Their friend reads it, is surprized. They instant message that person's girlfriend. Along with alerting her other friend. And soon enough, this blog will be in everyone's cache. Rumors spreading like wildfire.

It is known fact that the internet accelerates gossip by thousands of percent. Word can travel faster then it has ever been able to before, with fiber optic connections and wide band data rates. And that word, minus the obvious bias to those unconnected to this massive stream, can reach all over the world in seconds. I can walk through New York City, and hit more Wifi hotspots then Pizza places. It just goes to show you how our culture has evolved and escalated into this insane system.

Getting famous used to be word of mouth and distributing your demo to as many recording studios as you could afford to send it to. Exposure is the key. Now, imagine the possibilies. The internet is home to some of the greatest artists, writers, musicians, philosophers.. I could keep going. You could Google (A phrase that also coined a generation.) exactly what you want and have the most popular result right in front of you.

I'm sure there will be many elites from each of these groups, that will go completely unnoticed. Then again, are they still considered elites if they can't draw the attention? I've seen people create videos that I thought were senseless and have over 100,000 views in less than a month. I've also seen videos I thought were amazing, which I was lucky to see get 500 views. If you want instant fame, insert any sexual word, phrase or picture into your page.

Breast.

Don't beleive me? I have proof.

In 2004, someone created a video. Called "The Rage Of Flippy" (Google Video Rage Of Flippy, It'll be the first and only result..) A video that all of my friends thought was absolutely hilarious. This video, in 2007 has 575 views. 3 years? 575 views? Give me a break.

In 2003, before this "The Rage Of Flippy" was recorded. This same person posted a video titled "Flippy's Breast Implants" (Google Video Flippy's Breast Implants, first and only result.) This video currently has 3,669 views. It generates about 100 views per month now.


While these videos are completely senseless, you get my idea. I'm not saying you're going to grab someone's mind by putting sex into your work. But its an easy way to pull their attention.

I digress.

The general public are attracted to a few things.
Sex.
Stupidity.
Injury.
Intelligence.
Hate.
Love.


They will defend something they love.
They will diminish something they hate.
They will read intelligence, hoping to scrape some off.
They will hope never to end up in that situation.
They will want more then they get.
They will use the internet to connect their lives.
They will use the internet as a way to waste time in fantasy.

They will. Do just about everything.

They will do what you want, if you are smart enough.


Insert Fame Here, in between these lines.

Next Episode: Intelligence and its dimensions.