My thoughts on Blogitive rejecting Bloggerparty.
Am I bummed that I can no longer place ads on my blog? Yes and no.
Let's face it. The one troll who told me I was a "whore" got closer to nailing it than anyone else. But nobody said a whore can't enjoy their job. It's easy money, and *most* of the posts weren't too offensive to me. It's hard to say no when someone offers you $5 to write 100 words about truck covers. $5 per post times X number of posts times X number of blogs equals one more month between me and poverty.
But it stifled my "voice", whatever the hell that is. I can't talk about the dirty joke my Priest friend shared with me because sponsors might be offended by the wording. I start getting friends and family involved in the blogging because they see the paychecks I have coming in. And then I can't talk about them behind their backs. :D
And let's not bullshit each other. Even though I write that it was a sponsored post, what are they sponsoring exactly? The fascinating discussion about my favorite video game from my childhood? The movie I'm currently watching? The riveting blog where I told how I fell down the stairs a few months ago, and I'm still in pain from it?? Even on television, you have to at least pretend to offer something interesting so that you can make your real money on ads. If nobody is watching, nobody will buy ads. At least on my fashion blog, I can stick the "This post is sponsored" tag at the beginning so that everyone knows that if they want decent fashion tips, they will have to wade through the sponsor's ad. Otherwise, there's always the lingering thought that if I am not being paid I will begin recommending that people wear tube socks. Don't try me. I swear to God, I'll do it!
I've got a lot of stuff I could have used the money for. Mostly, I'd like to be able to afford to live in the same house as my husband again. I guess that's why God invented Blogger, and it's my God-given right to go muck it up now. I've got my Tblog site, and I've got a couple other that I just started. I get very inventive when faced with impending poverty, although I haven't yet resorted to ACTUAL whoring. Yet. Wait until I move to The Netherlands.
But I'm not bitter. Actually, I'm kinda happy. This is the only one of my blogs that has no focus. This is where I'm free to just be myself, warts and all. I no longer have to write something for the sake of getting paid. I can write because of the reason Stephen King said. Sometimes a story just needs to exist, and I get to help it come into existence.
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I find myself feeling the same way, IntricateGirl.
I've been doing Blogitive posts on another blog and I've been having issues with the new rules - the two post rule, especially - and I find myself feeling like a kid out of school now because I no longer have to force myself to submit a post. Still, I will miss the money and, like you, I will find a way to replace it.
But the main reason for this comment was to comment on the blogger who called you a whore for doing Blogitive posts. Get real! In that case we are all whores because we all have Adsense ads on every single one of our posts. I'd bet 90% of all bloggers on sites that use Adsense actually started blogging because of the exaggerated money making claims made by these sites. I know I did - I just stuck around because I like it. Or maybe that sterling individual didn't even have an Adsense account, in which case I would wonder why he's using Bloggerparty instead of one of the sites that does not use Adsense. Comments like that just get my goat. What an ass!
Thank you.
Yeah. I was somewhat puzzled by that comment. I mean, ok, I'm taking pay for posting something in amongst the rest of the posts. 99% of the posts on that site were marked. In fact, I think it caught this person's attention because I marked in the HEADLINE that it was a sponsored post. So I'm wondering how I can go about getting Paul Harvey's phone number so this enlightened jackass can call him up and tell him to "bend over". Yeah, it got that vile.
Am I a whore? I don't know. I guess it depends on each person's definition. I can write about fashion with complete confidence and authority. I don't try to hide the fact that I'd love to write for Vogue, Style, or Elle one day. But before you can even get to the table of contents in those mags, you've already seen 10 ads minimum.
That's the game. The only reason the newspaper exists is because the coupons pay for it. Why did they think the internet, the medium of pornographers and hackers, would be any different?
It's the way the world works, IntricateGirl.
We use the barter system - money for services and goods. In order to get services and goods we have to trade money - in order to get money we have to offer services or goods in exchange for money. How did anyone ever expect the Internet to continue without money changing hands? What world were they living in?
So sorry I missed that little conversation. I'd have enjoyed tearing the idiot a new one.
Are you a whore? Well, if being a whore is defined as selling yourself for money, then we all are. We all sell ourselves - our talents and our skills and our time - for money.
aren't we all whores?
we all exchange services for 'integrity' (or whatever you wanna call it).. .i am not self-righteous about this. we are all whores in a sense, yes, but the blogitive russian bride thingy was something I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF ---- !!!!!
I Like Whores
They're like girlfriends you don't have to answer to. Makes the money invested seem worthwhile.
At any rate, while I don't like this at all and it means I will have to drop several "free" blogs, my beef with Blogitive is this new policy of sending "e-checks," which take about two weeks to get into my account! It's like paying a hooker with credit! How many hookers do you know what take credit?
Next time someone accuses you of "selling-out" or "being a whore" or whatever, for taking on sponsors, ask if that means that they will now be paying you to read your blog. Get real mean about it: be all like, "I've sent you my PayPal address and am awaiting my money. I'll follow up on this in one week and let everyone know how much I received. Thanks, Father!" And then really do follow it up.
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Oy. The person I suspect
Oy. The person I suspect left the comments celebrates "Buy Nothing Day" and reads Adbusters magazine. Which I totally respect because my avatar came from their site. But I also kinda laugh at the whole idea of it because of the fact that you can buy a magazine that's anti-consumer in chain stores everywhere. Anyway... I think I have asked someone in the past to do that. Heh. I think you may have inspired my next post over there. *Insert evil wink here*
And girlfriends aren't so bad. No, I'm not speaking from personal experience, so don't even go there. :D