Strip for me, please?

WARNING: This post contains mature content for mature people. Do NOT read the faintly erotic stuff I wrote below if you are not mature, or I'll have no choice but to call your Mom.

Today, we'll study the case of Tila Nguyen (a.k.a. Tila Tequila). By the way, we're not relatives. The only common thing we share is that we are both sexy as hell.

This mama was on Friendster in 2003 when they were about to ban her from the site because the vixen was a little too... "in your face". So Tom Anderson, founder of MySpace, invited her over. (To his site, not his home).

Anderson correctly intuited that she would bring lots of traffic to the nascent MySpace.

So when little Tila signed up for MySpace, she was surprised that there was nobody (or very few people). You have to understand that sexy gals like her rely on male eyeballs to fuel her own energy.

Anyways, she emailed 40,000 people and invited them over.

The rest is history. She now has over 1,600,000 friends on MySpace!

Her notoriety has launched her career and ensured her commercial success.

When I read about her case study in a business book, I immediately went to her MySpace page looking for some pictu... oops, I mean, to do business research.

Okay, what does all this have to do with Facebook?

Well, Tila understands that the Internet exists for her. To promote herself. To make her rich.

Not too many people on Facebook understand this, it seems. Even the more professional crowd on Linkedin does not understand it.

It's really about using the Internet, like Tila did, to become popular.

Everybody wants to become more popular. That's because popularity brings you fame, fortune, prestige, power, and VIP invitations.

I'm not suggesting that you pose naked for Playboy like Tila did, mind you. And I wouldn't judge anyone who did.

What I am suggesting, however, is that you start -- how can I put this gently -- stripping.

I don't mean "stripping" in the sense of taking off your clothes while highly eroticizing music is playing in the background.

I mean "stripping" in the sense of revealing your TRUE SELF. Building your BRAND. Making people REMEMBER YOU.

For example, I'm known worldwide as the "Lazy Millionaire." I will talk more about this in a future post. You don't want to miss my story. :-)

Take a look at your Facebook friends. How do they perceive you? Are you KNOWN for being special in some way?

If so, are you continually increasing that specialness?

Now, I know that your mom and dad think that you are special. Your boyfriend or girlfriend probably also think that you are special.

However, I mean "special" in a demonstrable, specific and socially useful way.

I gotta go for supper, but I will write more about this.