Monday, February 16, 2009

Blogging for Money Or for Genuine Fun?

I was looking for a blog that talked about Hawaii, and as I was looking on this website, I was wondering how the blogger – a guy because he mentions that he has a wife – had so much time to invest in his blog. But as soon as I was starting to feel comfortable with the page – that I relied as a truly friendly relationship he has for his readers – then I saw the sponsors. He gets paid to write his experiences in Hawaii, which is not bad at all, but I think it is forcing the person to write his personal experiences with friends and family for a living, unless he truly loves blogging, then it is okay. If not, then why would a person work for something he/she does not like? This disappoints me. If you have a blogging account is to be in contact with friends and not to satisfy the needs of a company who wants to use YOUR persona to make ends meet. I know it is none of my business, but how can you sell your personal life to others? I think that all those who keep blogging their personal life for money, at the end it could take sides of what to tell and not to tell because of what the advertisers think. I’m not saying that he or any other blogger should denigrate advertises if these provided bad service about a particular experience they had in Hawaii, but in my personal opinion, blogging your personal life to others for money is hard to do because you want to expose yourself as a free blogger, but there are still limits because employees want to please their bosses.

I worry about this because how can one trust if the blogger is genuinely telling his experience online? I would like to know from the blogger if he would avoid buying costumes from the advertisers he has in his blog in order to avoid any biased experience? Or does he buy from these shops and never writes about them?

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