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HHNLive.com - Features - Make It Rain: Tay Zonday - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 23 Jan 09 - Cached

I'm pretty sure the "Chocolate Rain" attention started as a joke at 4chan.org, an image board that is credited with starting lots of popular internet phenomena. It spread to a general audience and people started uploading spoofs. I don't know what causes people to listen to my music. If I could speak it, there would be no reason to write songs.
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FAT Lab vs. NYCResistor - INTERNET FAME-OFF - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 18 Feb 09 - Cached

Internet Famous Class - 1 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 18 Feb 09 - Cached

Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 18 Feb 09 - Cached

Mike Wesch on 18 Feb 09

But I think these gloomy predictions are probably wrong. The truth is that people are developing interesting social skills to adapt to microfame. We're learning how to live in front of a crowd. If you really want to see the future, check out teenagers and twentysomethings. When they go to a party, they make sure they're dressed for their close-up - because there will be photos, and those photos will end up online. In managing their Web presence, they understand the impact of logos, images, and fonts. And they're increasingly careful to use pseudonyms or private accounts when they want to wall off the more intimate details of their lives. (Indeed, fully two-thirds of teenagers' MySpace accounts are private and can be viewed by invitation only.)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">But I think these gloomy predictions are probably wrong. The truth is that people are developing interesting social skills to adapt to microfame. We're learning how to live in front of a crowd. If you really want to see the future, check out teenagers and twentysomethings. When they go to a party, they make sure they're dressed for their close-up - because there will be photos, and those photos will end up online. In managing their Web presence, they understand the impact of logos, images, and fonts. And they're increasingly careful to use pseudonyms or private accounts when they want to wall off the more intimate details of their lives. (Indeed, fully two-thirds of teenagers' MySpace accounts are private and can be viewed by invitation only.)</div>

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