View Poll Results: Do you want to be famous?

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  • Yes! I would want to top Lady Gaga/ Obama/ etc.

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    Default Getting Famous, Would You Want it?

    What do you think about being famous?


    Everyone wants to be famous as teenagers, but usually people start letting go of these fantasies when they go to college and start their regular-person-jobs.


    People idolize celebrities and hunger for glamour.
    Famous people lead the scenes/ communities that put them on pedestals- they sell people images, words, feelings, ways of living and thinking.


    What if you have a simple choice of whether or not you will be famous?
    Would you want it?
    Why, or why not?
    What kind of fame would you choose?


    If you say yes, once you get the public's attention, you're on the records... Your face and statements won't be forgotten or erased.
    If you step out of the limelight, you're abstaining from Greatness is some way (or at least the public views it that way).
    If you choose to stay famous and sustain an audience, you will constantly have people following/ watching you. Drama might follow, people falling in love with you, getting jealous, tons of shallow relationships. If you end up with kids, they may not be normal (depending on how well you can balance your lifestyle).
    Tabloids and Yahoo News dig up old dirt on your life (including you being a stripper), and post up candid stalker-pictures of you nearing retirement, wearing sweatpants, running to the grocery store.


    Would you be OK with that?
    Or do you disagree...?

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    Default Re: Getting Famous, Would You Want it?

    Yup I'd Be ok with that.

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    No, Ill take being rich w.o fame.

    I dont like attention that comes with being famous... Ill pass

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    Maybe i can just be famous after I die, like Van Gogh.

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    If it meant I could have a pet penguin then ok
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    I still fantasize about being famous, lol. I think it would be the greatest thing ever...plus, I would be able to afford anything and everything pertaining to cosmetic surgery----score!

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    I don't know,I put maybe. I get very freaked out if I don't get my own space and even though I am quite open about most things,I HATE people prying into my privacy or knowing things about me that I do not want them to know.
    Maybe it would be worth the sacrifices, if money came with it. I could be influential, I want that more than fame.
    I hate bad photographs of me as well! Lol and I do a lot of things that I am sure if I was famous, the paparazzi would have a field day with!
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    Fame is something you tolerate because it usually comes with a side order of rich. Rich and famous i would gladly put up with, just famous no thank you.
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    "Fame, Fame, fatal Fame
    It can play hideous tricks on the brain
    But still I'd rather be Famous
    Than righteous or holy, any day
    Any day, any day "

    Morrissey sums up my feelings on this better than i could myself.

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    The country has been looted.

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    ^^^^^^HAHAHA

    I always wanted to be famous. Not something I want now that I've been naked on the internet for a long time but I still romanticize the idea of fame.
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    I always wanted this and I still regret not having been discovered because I am a great singer and actress and let's face it you don't need either to be famous now. However there are disadvantages, such as in many cases the career fizzles then what? there are many former stars who struggle to find work because their heyday is over. Can you imagine having been the star of a popular show, the show ends and you never work again? There are a lot of situations like this and it's scary. Not to mention being stalked everywhere and everything you do in life in the tabloids.

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    Never wanted to be famous..I wouldnt want the constant criticism but truthfully the lack of privacy would stifle my life. I like blending in to an extent, yea being different in alot of my tastes and interests..Once this rather insignificant person asked me how i was going to find someone like me bc Im so different..lol..Really he was ordinary was more the problem..There are those that long to conform and be accepts and then there are those thatd rather be their own person..Thats me...Just wouldnt want my every move scrutinized by being famous..I already get enough of that as a dancer...I actually dress down alot on my off time so I wont stand out..

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    To me, nothing is worth having random strangers always snapping pictures at you for the rest of your life. No fkn thx!

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    No. I will happily take the money. The fame..... No thank you.

    The constant intrusions into your life. Going to do something mundane, such as buying groceries piles on ridiculously invasive amateur journalists.

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    No no no!! For someone with bad social anxiety, like myself, becoming famous would be the equivalent to living in the 7th level of hell. I'll take my privacy, thank-you very much. Now being rich on the other hand....
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    I voted yes BUT only under certain circumstances. I've always wanted to be in playboy for as long as i've known what it was. Now since i've been camming my other dream is to be on Howard Stern like aspenrae and devonalexis!! So technically that's not majorly famous. But still out there.

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    Anyone can be famous..... You can even fake it.









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    ^^ Pure craziiness!! People are idiots!!

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    I'll take the money. I'll take being able to make full use of my talents and having an effect on the world. But I'll definitely take a pass on being harassed, or worse yet being a slave to the adulation of the ignorant masses.

    People with weak egos crave attention--some will even stoop to paying others to fawn over them publicly--which in my book is about as pathetic as you can get. People with strong egos are oblivious to it.
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    Yes, but only because it would mean that I'd actually achieved something in my chosen field lol. The idea of recognition and of course the finical perks appeal to me, but the invasion of privacy/public expectations do not.

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    Default Re: Getting Famous, Would You Want it?

    whats your chosen field, if you don't mind me asking?

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    Recognition - fine. Fame as defined by society today? Not in any significant amount, anyway. No way.

    My grandfather was famous, but not in a way that made him instantly recognizable in public to many people. And this in the 70's-90's, when it wasn't as bad as now. He STILL had to deal with a lot of crap - but not nearly as bad as people do today. Having seen that for years, I'd probably pass. Maybe up to near his level, but more than that would be a bit much. Maybe as a famous author or something, where the tabloids don't care as much and people don't instantly know your face everywhere.

    To be honest - I actually forgot about this until I was wrapping up the post, LMAO - I/we had the opportunity and passed on it. Back when all 3 girls were here, we were offered a pretty major reality show. After discussing it together we were pretty much unanimous in our decision that the money wouldn't be worth what it would do to our lives. I've wondered a few times if it would have been worth it, if we should have done it - but any time the thought lasts more than a minute I come to the conclusion that even going broke and dealing with the stress we have right now, we made the right call.
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    Yes please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser View Post
    I'll take the money. I'll take being able to make full use of my talents and having an effect on the world. But I'll definitely take a pass on being harassed, or worse yet being a slave to the adulation of the ignorant masses.

    People with weak egos crave attention ... People with strong egos are oblivious to it.
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    Yes, but only because it would mean that I'd actually achieved something in my chosen field lol. The idea of recognition and of course the finical perks appeal to me, but the invasion of privacy/public expectations do not.
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    Recognition - fine. Fame as defined by society today? Not in any significant amount, anyway. No way.

    My grandfather was famous, but not in a way that made him instantly recognizable in public to many people. And this in the 70's-90's, when it wasn't as bad as now. He STILL had to deal with a lot of crap - but not nearly as bad as people do today. Having seen that for years, I'd probably pass. Maybe up to near his level, but more than that would be a bit much. Maybe as a famous author or something, where the tabloids don't care as much and people don't instantly know your face everywhere.

    What they said, with special attention to the highlited part. "Celebrity" as known these days is a royal pain, one would rather have prestige and renown just among those who know and appreciate what you're doing, than be recognized by random yoyos from your picture on the cover of the Globe. Once upon a time people of high achievement could have some hope that their desire to segment off a level of "own life" and normalcy could be respected. But now if you want to be in the public eye you lose control because the public assumes you to be "common property" over which THEY have the right to project their expectations and insecurities, and be on call for it 24/7.

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