Fame

What is fame? How do we measure fame? I think that these questions are difficult, if not impossible to answer. When I think of fame, I think that people know you. However, how many people? What people? The other day, I was having a conversation with some friends about the definition of fame. The conclusion that I came to throughout this conversation was that fame is changed from what it used to be. In the early days of television and radio, you had to have talent to get famous. There were not that many radio stations or tv stations during this time, and consequently these stations only played the best and most popular. Now people are famous for doing nothing. YouTube sensations are a great example of this. Im sure you've all see the David after dentist video. This kid is famous because he was lit off of some pain killers and laughing gas and said some funny things. Just to clarify, I am not arguing the humor in this. I love that video. It cracks my shit up every time. But, he is not talented. I dont necessarily thing that this is anyone's fault. I think this is a vicious cycle. Technologies allow us to market things to everyone on the planet. Statistically speaking, one in every nine people on the planet is connected through social media, and more often than not, that social media is Facebook. We can get almost any content to almost anyone, almost anywhere, almost anytime, for free, at least to the consumer. I supposed the argument could be made that you have to pay for a device to access the internet, and then you have to pay for internet access, but Im not going to go there. This has made it so people dont have to do as much to be famous. Anyone can be famous at least to some degree, fairly easily. It doesnt take real talent to get fame anymore and I am sad about that. I think it robs worth from stars of the past. Thoughts?