Whenever I tell someone about my blog, the first thing they always ask me is how I came up with the name and the idea. Â So I figured I’d share my story. Â During the summer of 2009 after graduating from Syracuse University. Â I spent the summer sleeping on friends’ couches and going on dead end interviews all over NYC. Â One afternoon, I found myself wandering the streets of the city aimlessly for hours when I found myself locked out of my friend’s apartment. Â I walked passed a bank that had a ticker with all the stocks of the day out front. Â Having nothing better to do, I stood there and watched the entire thing go by only to find that every single number was red.
I stood there motionless for I don’t know how long thinking about my nearly broken dreams and inner desires. Â I could do one of two things: I could give up and go home or face this world like the socialite I’ve always wanted to be. Â Some people may have been born into high society, but social media had given me the opportunity to tweet my way in and this was exactly the spark I needed to inspire my first Internet venture. Â Months later, I mentioned my blog idea over lunch to my friend Nicole who told me not just to think about it, but to dive in. Â She helped me set up my WordPress that weekend. Â With all the amazing feedback I was getting on my writing from strangers, I really began to feel like a socialite and the site grew from there.
Since I like to think of everything in terms of the Disney Princesses, I consider the story of how Aspiring Socialite came to be a modern-day Cinderella story. Â At the risk of sounding like the next episode of ABC’s hit series Once Upon A Time, I’ll always be thankful to Nicole for giving me the Fairy Godmother push I needed to tangle myself in the World Wide Web. Â Sleeping Beauty has always been my favorite Disney Princess, but this is absolutely a Cinderella story for the social media age. Â If I’m the Social Media Cinderella who tweeted herself into instant fame, does that make Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter who I totally have a secret crush on, Prince Charming? Â I really hope so!
The Disney Princesses with the social media icons they remind me of.
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