Unpopular Opinions: Blogger Edition
Anybody can blog.
In theory anyone can start a blog about anything since everybody has a story to tell. Correct; while anybody can start a blog, keeping it running is another ballgame all-together requiring a mixed bag of skill-sets which not everyone quite possesses and that is why blogs die.
Blogging is easy.
Blogging is easy all you do is write… Outside looking in it seems one just sits down and writes, yes I can see how it looks just like that. But a lot goes into it from the research and background work to creating the time and space to actually write, not to mention having to read and interact with other blogs
A blog is a lot like being a lead actor, scriptwriter, director and executive producer of your own movie about being a one man production; writer, editor, publisher, and marketer of your own magazine.
Bloggers simply play on the internet.
Blogging for what? Yes sometimes I am on the internet for fun, but most times its for other reasons from research to post ideas, trying to find people to read my blog and looking out for opportunities. When I am on the internet I usually have several tabs open which include my social media accounts, my email, a dictionary and thesaurus, Wikipedia other blogs and of course my blog
You can make money from blogging
This is scam number one on the internet that you can make money on the internet from blogging…. As with all things you read on the internet, you should never believe things you find on the internet and that is something I read on the internet too…
One of the reasons blogging is not taken seriously in the global south is it does not seem to generate money, lots of money. I say seem because it sure does look that way, one of the most Googled questions on blogging is how to make money from blogging… (an enterprising mind you could do the math, if you know, you know)
Blogging is a hobby
To the casual observer blogging looks like a hobby, something you do for fun when you have free paint on your hands.
Blogging is not a hobby although it may be a labour of love on account of as I mentioned earlier that making money from it is let’s just say not easy.
For some of us blogging is a way of life, it’s like breathing you do not breathe for fun.
“So besides blogging what else do you do?”
I have never heard anyone ask a doctor “So Doctor besides spending your waking hours in a hospital saving people’s lives, what else do you do?”
When asked the question what else do you do as a blogger it feels as if you are being asked what do you really do as if blogging is minor detour like when I am not blogging I am a doctor ^_^ I know a person isn’t just one thing, and a blogger might be several other things too.
I dream of a day when someone asks me what I do, then I reply “I am an uncle of bloggers” and that’s enough.
Uncle Of Bloggers
~B
Becoming The Muse 
You hit the nail on the head over and over and over again. Well done.
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♥♥♥
~B
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This is spot on. So much goes into blogging but you can only know that once you start blogging and are committed to growing your blog. Uncle of bloggers, I like that😂😂
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Its almost like one of those things where you should not judge a situation in whose shoes you have not walked
~B
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Very true
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Uncle of bloggers. Love it!!!
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Thank you ^_^
~B
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But can one really blog if they’re not paying for real SEO assistance?
I don’t think we’ve seen how blogging will ultimately impact the world, but am anxious to see it.
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one can learn some of the finer points of SEO I havent paid anyone for SEO yet and I am trying to figure how to get it to sch that if yo google Uncle of bloggers you see me lol
~B
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I googled “Uncle of bloggers”, and I found you👏👏👏.
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I made it ^_^
~B
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🤗 no truer words
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Thank you
~B
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I love this.
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Question out of curiosity: is it wrong to blog for fun, for the sheer enjoyment of it, to have an online space for all your thoughts and fears and dreams just because?
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with blogging for the sheer enjoyment of it, my favourite bloggers do just basically that, to spill out their thoughts, fears and dreams just because…. I even encourage people to do just that, you can tell when you land on a blog that this person loves to be here.
The subtle point I hoped to make is that from outside looking in, people are quick to dismiss and are not very appreciative of the time and time and effort one puts in to their blog..
Just because I am doing something for the fun of it, doesn’t mean I am not putting in the work…
I hope have somewhat answered your question
~B
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B,
Thank you. That was a very sufficient answer. I admit, I’ve worried for a while concerning my blog and at times—I’m ashamed to admit—I’ve considered shutting it down because I thought I wasn’t “a real blogger” because I don’t write content consistently—you’re absolutely right, blogging is HARD and people on the outside just don’t get it!—and have few readers, despite having my blog for a few years now. The only reason why I haven’t ended it is for the sheer love of writing and the small hope that someone somewhere will read my words and be affected by them. After all, that’s why we write, right? 🙂
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….could not have put it better myself, that hope that someone out there will connect.
I have even begun to fancy that who knows maybe years from now, someone will look back on my tangle of words like we do looking at rock paintings to figure out what our ancestors got uptp hahaha
Till then stay writing
~B
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I will if you will. Thank you for the boost up this morning. Fair thee well, my fellow wordsmith. Hugs
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