Recently, I've been asked to discuss about a growing trend among bloggers today, that the very motivation of bloggers to blog anymore is no longer the same as what we thought it would be. Judging from the amount of postings that people have done, there is a sharp increase of popularity among bloggers to promote or post about their earnings from their blog.My main concern is, is that the only thing that matters to bloggers these days? Has the very motivation of bloggers are now just about monetary gains?
Of course I am not trying to preach on morality over monetary, or anything along those lines but what I question is that on certain aspects on bloggers, there has been growing concerns that bloggers are now using that motivation to promote their blog, some aggressively, to either obtain more cash out of their blogs OR using that topic as a mean to obtain more traffic towards their site. Personally, I can't stand those who feel that monetary reasoning or motivation is THE ONLY thing that drives them to blog, and I'll tell you why.
As I said in my earlier, I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THOSE POSTINGS ADS ON THEIR SITES or even blog about it, on the very reason that some of the post on MoaTTD has been about advertisements as well. My beef come against those who either have forgotten about the very reason of him/her starting a blog in the first place and is more concern about trying to earn a quick buck over their blogs. Its a shame to think that this would be the easy route to make money and in the end bastardize those who actually appreciates blogging as a platform to share ideas or just to talk about their daily lives.
One of the major problem would be pestering others to the benefit of their own.
For most of us bloggers in Malaysia, we rely on blogging marketing platforms such as Nuffnang or Adverlets, who are companies which is suppose to unite bloggers around and in the same time promote their own sites from these platforms. HOWEVER today we can see that there are a minority few that has taken upon themselves to not only promote but pester those relentlessly to come to their sites for their ads and even some would even make the move to actually forget BASIC SOCIAL COURTESY OR DECENCY when doing so.
Aggressive tactics have made some of us forget the importance of socializing, respecting others outside and ESPECIALLY loyalty, where in the end the loyalty of bloggers can be bought with a measly amount of cash. No longer having the loyalty like a basic human being would have but as a mercenary where their loyalty lies to the person that can give them the best benefit.
Second observation is that monetary postings seem to be getting a major attention among readers, particularly in Malaysia.
The idea that people today get is that the more you write about money, the more interest you would obtain into your site, something which I think its a sad picture to paint. For some of my readers out there, I'm sure that you would realize that people are now just generally interested to find out how much is the other person making and how the person did it. Henceforth my question, is that all there is in their motivation to either blog or read? Whatever happened to those who actually want to read to be informed over things OTHER than money? Where have they all gone? In all honesty, I am sure that there will be those out there who came reading this post on the simple reason they saw the word "MONEY" and "BLOG" on its title.
"For most of the top bloggers in Malaysia, take out their opportunity to make money and they would still be blogging"
- Timothy Tiah, Project Alpha Ep. 1 -
The man is right and I honestly believe he is, problem is that if you were to mention this to the average blogger today, they would scuff them in a hurry, on the simple basis that they are convinced that bloggers today do what they do on the sole reason of monetary purposes and nothing more than that which I find it as a shame.
I know that by posting this post, I am going to piss a lot of people off and quite frankly, I am more than happy to debate with those who think otherwise. I am more than happy to see what you out there would think of this matter. For months now, I am in so much mood to have a friendly banter with people, so what better topic would for me to do so that this right?
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