You love an audience. If you were born since 1985, you’ve always had one. For years now you and your circle of friends have become each other’s micro-paparazzi, watching each other dance in videos, sing solos with ukuleles, write fan fiction, and pose for photo shoots. Andy Warhol, who famously quipped that everyone in the future would be famous for fifteen minutes, was not some cultural prophet like some have suggested. All he needed to do was read about the Greek figure Narcissus who after staring at himself in a pool of water was dying to upload that pose to his Facebook page as soon as he got home. Since 900 BC, I guess, we’ve been needing an audience. 

Now that technology has caught up with our narcissism, I offer some principles that might help guide our pursuit of an audience.