Do you NEED to be famous?

I just read 5 Social Media Lessons I Learned from Working with a Hollywood Actress by Laura Roeder. It probably should be called "5 Social Media lessons I TAUGHT a Hollywood Actress. Roeder is a social media consultant and the founder of Creating Fame, a website explaining how to make you and/or your business famous.

I have to admit; I'm a bit alarmed.

I have NO desire to have "a post going viral and getting hundreds of thousands of visitors? Or having tens of thousands of followers on Twitter who follow your every move? Or checking your email and having hundreds of messages from your adoring fans?"

By implementing her easy to follow steps:

• Lesson #1: Find your blog’s core purpose
• Lesson #2: Ditch the distractions
• Lesson #3: Streamline your social networking
• Lesson #4: Focus on your talents
• Lesson #5: Take advantage of your opportunities

You too can become virtually popular in a virtual world!

It grinds my gears when I hear about people striving to become famous on the Internet. The masses are begging to put more energy into Facebook, Twitter and Blogs than investing energy into relationships, the community, or their families. If you don't get what I'm sayin', and that is that striving for Internet fame is a waste of human potential, ponder this: if you spent as much time playing a real guitar as you did practicing Guitar Hero, you would actually be able to play a real guitar.

If you really want to be famous, do something important! Change the world for the better! Spend your time volunteering or picking up garbage. Being famous for posting videos on YouTube about the new shoes you bought is LAME.

If you choose this path, I predict a lonely, unfulfilled future ahead.

Sorry... :'(