How Do You Become Famous On The Internet?
Andy Warhol’s 1968 quote that “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” is looking increasingly prophetic as the Internet age advances. Here is how you too can become a web celebrity. • Learn the ins and outs of your computer. Get a couple of books, go online, and practice HTML. One day you’re going to be able to change channels from ABC to CBS to social networks. Learn the basics so that when TV and the Internet truly become one, you’ll be ready. • Publicize your IM screen names, URLs, and Net addresses everywhere and often, and reply to everyone. Treat the Web like your house: When people knock, be there to answer. Most comedians work an hour a night and play the rest of the day. Don’t let that be you. • Build a website with personality if you want to build a fan base. People need to feel that you – and not an anonymous webmaster – are there. Make sure to update every single day, and remember: If it’s not interesting, users will click to the next page and move on.
• Push the HTML boundaries Learn the ins and outs of your computer. If you’re still in the dark ages and you’re relying on others to know how to manipulate everything on the computer while you just point and click, it’s time to get net savvy. Get a couple of books, go online, and practice HTML. Be reassured that one day you’re going to be able to change channels from ABC to CBS to social networks. Learn the basics so that when TV and the Internet truly become one, you’ll be ready. • Knowing how to perfect website content yourself is an important part of creating and massaging your image. If you need to rely on other people to do this, it can be frustrating and might not turn out the way that you’d like it to. • If you haven’t already done so, map out your personality profile for being online – the same awesome user name, the same awesome profile, etc., and you’ll be able to cut and paste this everywhere once you’ve done the hard work on perfecting it at the outset. • What unique “somet
