It seems easier than ever to become a celebrity today. YouTube has turned unknown people like Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black into household names, Twitter accounts like "Sh*t my Dad Says" have become TV sitcoms and popular blogs have turned into books and inspired movie scripts.
The social networking era has encourgaed us to have a billion Facebook friends and Twitter followers (even if don't actually know half of them).
The interesting thing about today's fame though is that it doesn't necessarily come with fortune. Having a video on YouTube doesn't make a person any profit, no matter how many hits it gets. So is fame more important than fortune?
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Our question today is, if you could either be rich or famous, which would you choose?
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