The rise of social media has spawned endless “experts” and courses offering to make you a “Social Media Celebrity“. These are essentially aimed at helping you create a social media persona and use that “fame” to achieve success in your chosen field.
But for many of you, the idea of becoming a celebrity is a major turn-off:

 

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Last Friday, thanks to Twitter, it came to my attention that a particularly nasty article had been written in the Daily Mail by Jan Moir about the death of singer Stephen Gately. I avoid reading newspapers for this very reason – slanted, biased and (as in the case of the Daily Mail which was our family’s newspaper during my formative years) often bigoted writing.
I won’t go into great detail about the article originally entitled (and then changed after the complaints started to reach the Daily Mail) “Why there was nothing …