Do you want to be known throughout your country? Or even throughout the world? In the past, these dreams may be very hard to be achieved. But it's not so nowadays.
Right now, we are living in an age where information has become the main stream of technology development. Since the foundation of web by Tim Berners-Lee and other researchers from CERN (European Particle Physics Lab), internet has been the main source of information in the world. You can access vast amount of information just by sitting down in your room and turn on your computer using your internet browser. Following the development of internet as the world biggest library and information storage, various features were released starting with the creation of search engine such as Google and Yahoo. It was followed by other developments such as social networking websites like Facebook and Friendster, file sharing sites like 4shared and Mediafire, and even Video Calling site such as Skype. The developments of the internet brings forth the endless possibility for us to make ourselves popular through it.
So what are the ways to make ourselves popular? Here are some of them. Enjoy!
#1 : Popularize yourself using Facebook
Social networking sites such as Facebook were created specifically for us to meet people across the world and make friends with them. The sites provides many features that will help you in getting know many people through various events such as when people are interested on the posts in your wall and decided to hold a conversation with you, ending up as friends, or you get to be in the same team when you're playing some of the games available in the sites, and other various occassions.
The availability of this sites is really helpful. You have a much higher chance to get to know new people especially from other countries rather than doing it offline since it will cost you much to travel abroad and the possibility of meeting foreign people in reality sometimes can be quite hard. You can even use the search feature to find people with same hobbies or characteristics as you even if you don't even know them and gain more friends. To put it simply, the more friends you can find through this sites, the more people will get to know you, and in a way, the more popular you are.
Recognized the person who is featured in this picture?
Well, most of people will say "who doesn't know him this day and age?". Yes you're right, he is Eminem. A famous rapper and song writer. He currently hold the honor to have the largest followers and fans on Facebook. His Facebook page has been followed by 32,196,373 peoples!! Look at that number! As such, no wonder he has become the most popular person on the renowned social networking site (A.K.A Facebook).
You might say "Well, he is a celebrity from the start, so its natural for him to be famous in Facebook. Even without using it he is already famous, you know!" Yeah, you're right. That's why we will see another famous person with different background. Now, do you know who is featured on this picture?
Now who is this person?
I bet most of you don't even know who he is. I'll tell you then, he is Robert Scoble. He, like most people is normal in every way. He has navigated his way through the murky waters of the blogging world to become the original internet ‘spokesblogger’. While he was working for Microsoft he used his popular personal blog, scobleizer.com, to post favorable comments about his employers. After leaving Microsoft in 2006, Robert immersed himself to improve the value of blogging as an interactive platform and raise awareness for it as a tool aiding customer relationships. Currently pushing the art of video blogging, he may well find himself at the cutting edge of the next evolution of social media. You might not have heard of him, but 11,506 Facebook users think he is the man.
You see? Even a completely normal person like us may have the chance to make ourselves popular using Facebook. Popularity is not belong only to the celebrities anymore. We too can obtain it!
So, start your own Facebook page and see yourself become more popular!
#2 : Start Tweeting now!
Twitter like Facebook is one of the social networking sites available on the net nowadays. Beside that, it also provide microblogging service. However, different than its counterpart, Twitter provide a service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". Since its initial launch in July 2006, Twitter has rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011.
One of the aspect that makes it so popular is because of the simplicity it offers. When you're using sites like Facebook which offers features such as posting unlimited texts and pictures, it become tedious to keep following it everytime. However, with Twitter, the limitation forced you to limit your message, thus making it simple and easy to understand. Another advantage is Twitter is much more light in terms of memory usage when activated than Facebook since it contains mainly short messages.That's why its far more easier to keep following everytime even using your cellphones just like when you're sending and receiving SMS.
So then, how do this little blue chirping bird helps me in any way to make myself popular? Take a look at this photo.
Who is he? His name is Justin Halpern. A 29-years old man who lives with his 74-years old dad. He has a Twitter page which is dedicated to posts ridiculous things his father said throughout the day. Using his Twitter name "@shitmydadsays", he managed to attract many followers because his tweets are extremely funny. Just so you know, his Twitter page currently has about 1.797.321 followers!! That's an unbelievable amount of followers someone who isn't a famous person or a celebrity can gather. His tweets even has inspired a book called Sh*t My Dad Says and a television series $#*! My Dad Says on CBS. Who says we can't be a star out of our daily life?
Here is another example. Take a look at this photo. Anyone can guess who he is?
Behold, he is Pete Cashmore. Umm, who is he you say? Are you sure you don't know him? Well, duh, he is the founder and CEO of mashable.com. A famous site that focuses on news on social network and new websites. Did that give you any light about him? He is currently the holder of title of the most followed person on Twitter with approximately 2.104.773 followers!! Take a look at that number! So why are there so many people followed him? Of course its because of the latest news on networks and websites which is far more easier and quicker to followed using Twitter.
So, are you ready to TWEET yet?
#3 : Create a blog which attracts much visitors
Blog is a personal journal published in world wide web consisting of discrete entries called "posts". Different than web sites which usually required some payment to buy the domain for the site, blog is free for all service. Therefore, everybody can create it without having to pay. To use a blog, first you have to create it using blog publishing tool such as Blogger.com from Google or Wordpress.com. It's easy to set up a blog. After signing in using either of the site shown above or other site of your choices, you have to design the blog display according to your taste and likeness. Then you got write an article or two the post it. Make sure to found a specific theme to your blog so your reader may not get confused when entering your blog. And don't forget to post regularly so your blog readers become urged to visit your blog every now and then. That's how you make your blog popular.
Maybe some of you think that creating a blog alone won't make you really popular compared to the creators of some famous websites out there. Well, I don't think so! Take a look at this picture...
Do you know who he is? Maybe many of you don't recognized him. But he's quite well known even as far as very famous in the line of blogging. His name is Yaro Starak. He is one of popular people whom solely rely on his skill in blogging.If you ever try to plunge in to the depth of blogging, this guy surely must be your role model. Starting as a normal college boy, in 1998 he developed a blog fan site for a game called Magic The Gathering. It wasn't successful at first, as with other guys who tried to make a blog of the same kind. At some point, at the start of dotcom era, he started to built his blog in another approach which gain him around $500 a month, which wasn't a huge money, but it's quite amazing for an university student. Many years after, he became one of the most successful blogger with his monthly income reaching around million of dollars. The amount of people who are looking up to him and hoping to follow his steps are unbelieveably enormous.
But, how could we start to do such a thing? There are many other people who also started blogs but to no avail. They didn't manage to get famous from it. Where should I start? Well, you can try to join blog competitions which are held by various sites or companies. If you try to search it through the net, you can find many of them. For example, this article is made specifically to follow the Blog Writing Competition 2012 held by AXIS corporation with the theme "Eksis dengan internet" or "Popular through Internet" as seen in the banner below.
By joining competition such as this, you can be urged to write good quality articles that can attract many readers despite you succeed in winning the competition or not. It can also be a way for you to building links with other bloggers and helps you to advertise your blog through the competition.
So, if you got the talent in writing, design, and a hardworker, blog may be your path to stardom!
# 4 : Make an Interesting and Creative Video of Yourself then Put It on YouTube
Have you ever wonder how to make yourself popular without having to constantly texting, messaging, or posting pictures and others? What about if you make a very interesting video, sharing it online, and get famous from it? You don't have to update it everytime or create a new video every hour for that. That's exactly what YouTube offers to us.
Founded in 2005 by three former employess of PayPal who at the time are having difficulties in sharing a video of a dinner party at one of the founder's house online, YouTube has become the biggest video sharing website in the net containing millions of videos nowadays. More than 65.000 new videos were being uploaded every day including homemade videos, professional short movies, and others with about 100 million video views per day. Amazing! Sounds like an opportunity for me for people who wanted to get popular easily.
Basically, you just need to create a video using handycam, webcam, or other instruments. Than edited it with video editing software such as Ulead to add some modification aor just upload it raw. Then sign in on YouTube and upload the alrady made video. Voila! Now your video is ready to be viewed by people across the world.
Take a look at this cute short scene between two children
Charlie bit my finger -- again! -- 424.805.061 views (!!?..yeah..you heard me right)
Oooh! It's so cute!! Look how the innocent look of the baby is in front of the camera. And would you look at the view stats this video has obtained! It has been viewed by almost half billion people!! The baby and his brother is already on their w ay to stardom even before they understand how to change theie own diaper. They have been very popular despite most possibly then still don't understand that themselves. It's a really short scene, about 56 seconds (not even 1 minutes!). But the importance here is the uniqueness the video offers, not the length. It's so cute when the baby bites his brother's finger who scream painfully with innocent face and then laughing (also innocently) after that. Once again, they are so adorable!
Now here's another example of someone who wanted to be famous by using YouTube. He is a common police officer from Gorontalo (a city in Indonesia) who try to stage his own performance while on duty. He lipsynch a famous Indian song called 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' by Shahrukh Khan while dancing around. His name is Officer Norman Kamaru. Take a look at this video.
Video Lucu Brimob Gorontalo - Briptu Norman Kamaru -- 3.001.798 views
----(Funny Video of Gorontalo Police Officer - Officer Norman Kamaru)----
Now that's funny. Because of this video, Officer Norman has become known across the country. Popularity comes with it. He was asked to perform in various entertainment show. His name is known to many people. Especially as an inspiration for other 'normal' people who also wanted to get famous. His steps has been followed by many people.If not for this video, he may still be a common police officer that many people don't know about. Even an usually calm and serious police officer may become famous in entertainment! So, why can't you!?
#5 : Create Your Own Photoblog
Photoblog a new phenomenon in the world of blogging. Actually its not really that new you know. Just recently it had appeared in quite a number that we can be sure to separate this from normal blog.
To create this kind of blog, people mainly use online photo sharing apps like Flickr.
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. It is usually used to upload pictures which are used in blog created in Blogger or Wordpress. Nowadays, a new type of blog has been introduced and started to be used by many people. That is photoblog.
A photoblog is a blog which mainly features photos with little or no words at all. All the messages you want to say are expressed through the photo or picture featured. Now, this is more convenient than common blog for you who wanted to get famous quickly. You can put much unique pictures of yourselves, making people know you more because you often appear in pictures. This way, you can be popular much faster without having to make a good quality article regularly as with the normal blog.
Here is an example to a Photoblog. Basically it contains mainly photos or pictures
Of course, compared to the other ways above, Photoblog is still fairly new and the people who follow this kind of blog is still kinda few. So, it's up to you, whether you wanted to try making it (in case it will become a trend in near future) or opt for the ways above.
#6 : deviantART
We're getting to the last part of this article. Now I'm going to tell you another ways to popularize yourselves using the internet which requires some specific skills (especially this last two ways). The first is utilizing your skill in making illustrations and arts.
Behold, the deviantART
deviantART is an online community where you can share and showcasing your self-made artworks including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash animation, filmmaking, skins for applications, utilities, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials. If you are good and like to make artworks and crafts, this is a perfect place for you to showcase your works. With this, you can ask for advice from other members and use it to improve yourself. Other than that, people get to see you works and become amaze with it. Making you more popular within the community. You can also create some tutorials which people will download and ask advices from you. Again, you can be popular by doing this.
However, do note that creating works that could make you famous is not an instant process. It needs extensive training in perfecting your skill. It takes quite sometime too to make an artwork or craft. Remember that you got to let your passion in arts to get prioritized rather than instant popularity in the realm of arts.
#7 : Become the Champion in Online Gaming
Whew, we're finally arrived on the last part of this article. Another way you can get famous is through playing online gaming. What's that? That would be really fun you know especially for a video game lover since you can get famous while doing the thing you like that is playing games. Of course, to become famous you can't just play normally as you like. You needed to have skill in the game you wanted to play and become famous in. To have that, you have to practice regularly. So, many other players who are playing the same game would looking up to you as an expert and your name would rise up. Beside popularity, you can also obtained much money from online gaming.
Are you kidding me? Would that kind of dream be true in reality? Well then, check out this picture.
If you're a fans of a real time strategy game called StarCraft from Blizzard Entertainment (the same company who made Warcraft and inspired a game which derive from it called DOTA), most likely you know this person. His name is Lim Yo-Hwan. In game, he is more known with the pseudonym SlayerS_'BoxeR'. He is one of the most successful players of StarCraft to date. Dubbed The Emperor by his fans, most likely a reference to his preference in using Terran force in the game (which is led by the Emperor), he is the most popular Starcraft player with a fan club of more than 1,000,000 members and a DVD compilation of his greatest games released in South Korea.
Currently, Lim has a record with 548 wins and 416 losses (56.80%) during his professional career. His game is always full of excitement as he always plays with different tactics that even sometimes seems impossible. He also like to stay on the game even though he had a large disadvantage in the game and succeed in winning it, making hundreds of viewer amazed by his tenacity to win. He is one of the highest-paid professional gamers. His annual earning exceed $400.000!!! Not to mention endorsement contracts that gives him around $90.000 a year! What a large sum of money for playing video games! Even I wanted to do it.
He received an honor to be voted as the greatest gamer of all time by ESReality in 2004. Also, he is included in "The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers of All Time" by MTV. Simply Amazing!!
So, are you ready to compete?
Well, that's all the steps I can give to you about how to make yourself popular using the internet. You can find more steps in other articles featured in this site
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Keep your chin up. And have the courage to try the things I have mentioned above. Be prepared to struggle for sometime for we can't receive or achieve anything in this world without effort. And the seeds of effort you have planted will soon grow and bloomed. Believe in yourself and keep moving forward!!
