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figured out exactly who you are and feel they know the true
you long before they even meet you. And if you do not live
up to these assumptions, then there must be something
wrong with you. Very unfortunate.

Having to deal with so much pre-conception is not fun and
eats at your soul. A world-famous tennis player once told
me that he loves vacationing in parts of Africa where pretty
much no one recognizes him. "I'm neither put on a pedestal
I will surely fall from nor must I dig myself out of a hole I
was forcibly put into; I'm just another anonymous tourist
and it is great" he told me. I get it.

If your chosen vocation requires that you be famous, then
so be it and you must work out how to deal with the
negatives that fame brings, but aspiring to be famous just
for the sake of being famous is not something any of us
need to be doing. Yet, when the Face Book folks offer
people an ostensibly free and easy way to become well-
known, publicly exposed, published, or whatever the
perception is, they rush to do something no one should be
doing, which is treating the details of their personal life like
a national advertising campaign, sharing things with the
entire world that are simply none of their business to know.

Your private life should be just that — private and not
splashed all over the place like a supermarket tabloid. It
cheapens your personal experiences because people that do
not know you and cannot have any idea why you might be
doing what you are doing will immediately jump to
conclusions and have preconceptions, which is the exact
thing that real celebrities come to abhor. We have all heard
of trouble between people that started and was exacerbated
by social media that simply wouldn't have happened
otherwise. It is all just another example of wasting time

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