…Still, the rise of Internet portals on which people can become minor celebrities are partly driven by the need to create and maintain relationship… Many people whose primary motivation in life is fame are met with much disappointment because they always want more, and few can be recognized as widely as they want.

“It ends up being kind of a damaged life if you seek to be famous because you can never get there, really, and you can never can get rid of it, and it spoils your days trying.”

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