How to Become a MySpace Celebrity: Online Network Your Way to Fame

So you want to be a MySpace celebrity. It's good to have a goal. It's a strange goal, but at least you are clearly focused on your path in life, at least for the moment. Now, take a moment and think about just why you want to become a MySpace celebrity - the fame, the fortune, the girls?

Actually, believe it or not, all of those things are a possibility. If you do it right. Now think of the official reasons you want to be a MySpace celebrity, because this will help you become the kind of MySpace celebrity you want to be. Are you selling a creative product like your band's music? Then you want to take one approach. Are you selling your gothic cookbook? Then that is another approach - almost.

Maybe you just want to become a MySpace celebrity so you will have bragging rights with your friends - all 8,752 of them (and counting). Maybe you are an online journalist and having a lot of MySpace contacts will help you get into events you really want to cover.

When setting out to become a MySpace celebrity, you will have to know the basics of this kind of networking. Because that's what you're going to be doing, whether it sounds weird or not - networking. It's the same thing businessmen do at art shows, except you won't be drinking free wine and eating free cheese. Well, you might be, depending on what you can scrounge from your roommates' stashes.

The first thing you will have to do is approach people. (Well actually, the first thing you will have to do is have a cool profile with a few cool photographs of yourself doing things appropriate to whatever it is you're selling, and some information that fits in with what you're doing. But we'll assume you've already done that.)

Are you selling your band? Then make up a nice little message that explains that, and explains what kind of band you are and what famous bands you're like (come on - everyone's like someone, at least a little), and copy it so you can paste it into the window each time you ask someone to be your friend.

You want to ask a lot of people to be your friend, but you want them to be the right ones. First do a MySpace search on the type of music you play, or your influences or whatever you're putting in the note, and approach the people who come up. Give yourself a certain quota per day (50 requests works well) and stick to it.

Check MySpace every single day. Seriously. You will have to do this, not only because you need to approach your quota of people every day, but you will also want to thank the people who friended you. And you will also want to talk and play with the people on your friends pages. Remember Tila Tequila, the stripper who is now a television star because she first became a MySpace celebrity? She said that people on MySpace are drawn to other people on MySpace who actually talk to them. They want to play. They want some interaction. So give it to them. Don't be a noob.

Those are the basics. Let's go back over them again:

Cool profile. Everyone loves a pretty face and some quasi-personal info.

Approach people. They aren't going to come find you, dude, not unless you're already rich and famous. You have to hunt them down.

Be friendly with your friends. People like people who are real. If you talk to people, you will be real.

That's basically it. Of course, there are more advanced techniques to rocketing yourself to true MySpace stardom, but this is a good place to start. Happy MySpacing!