You are kidding right? Some anonymous person posted a comment on my Update On Nuffnang Incident and mentioned something I find amusing, that bloggers are freeloaders.
Whoever this person was, I think he or she is someone who was affected by that incident. But the way the comment was delivered I am sure I am not mistaken.
Anyway, regarding his or her thinking about bloggers being freeloaders, I think you don’t know what you are talking about.
Here are just some of the reasons why bloggers are not freeloaders:
1) Bloggers pay for electricity for using the computer.
2) If they don’t have a computer or internet at home they pay for the internet rental at an internet cafe.
3) They exert time and effort taking care of their blogs when doing their post, fixing their template, etc.
4) Paid post or sponsored post bloggers spent sleepless nights waiting to grab a sponsored post to make an income out of their blogs.
5) Bloggers may be getting perks from attending blog events but that doesn’t mean they are freeloading since they also invested time by going to that event and whatever needed to go to an event (transpo etc.)
6) Those who have domains pay for their domain and webhost. A domain is $10 a year while a web host, for someone with a good traffic, spends at least $10 a month.
7) They pay for their monthly internet service provider.
Ergo, bloggers are not freeloaders as they are also paying bills and spend time and money maintaining their blogs. Although we appear like we are just having fun, which we are, or in my case I am having fun because I am doing what I love. But to say that I am as a blogger is a freeloader is unfair.
Advertisers pay me to post their ads or write a sponsored post. The freebies I get from the blog events from the PR agencies or companies are just a token of gratitude for attending their event and hopefully post about their event. Which in my case I do post because what’s the use attending that event if I don’t intend posting about it. I don’t go to an event I don’t intend writing about FYI.
Bloggers are now acknowledge as the new media and as a media a powerful tool of information and or entertainment. I’ve met so many people from huge companies acknowledging this fact. If bloggers are not essential why are they tapping us to promote or write about them, so think about that.
Some bloggers do not realize this yet because some blog for personal reasons, an avenue to rant and write about their daily things or anything important in their life or just to make use of their creative side.
The winners of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Bloggs of 2009 can attest to the fact that blogging is a serious business and it ain’t a freeloading thing:
- Writing to Exhale
- Patay Gutom
- The Struggling Blogger
- Zorlone
- Father Blogger dot Com
- Kelvinonian Ideas 2.0
- Tales from the Mom Side
- Adaphobic
- Lakwatsero
- Let’s Go Sago!
These are the bloggers chosen by fellow bloggers with votes of more than 50 each. They are new blogs that their fellow bloggers think are emerging influential blogs because of their content.
Whoever wants to disagree with me may do so, I will approve your comments, if you don’t post as anonymous otherwise, I will edit and or remove your comments. Thank you. Peace!
Tags: bloggers are freeloaders, winners of the Top 10 Emerging Influential Bloggs of 2009
August 9th, 2009 at 6:07 am
I must agree with this. I spend my own money just to go to the internet café and do blogging. They must be a blogger themselves to judge that we are no freeloaders.
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August 9th, 2009 at 6:54 am
I totally agree with you. Buti naman at hindi na patay gutom. hehehe
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August 9th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Yeah, I agree with you Earth—-
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August 9th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Hi Earth,
Well said Earth! I couldn’t agree with you more.
Congratulations once again to the top ten. More power to Earthlingorgeous.com.
It was really nice meeting you.
Z
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August 9th, 2009 at 8:09 am
@ Fatherlyours ahahaha ininglish nya lang eh lol
@ Z Congrats!
August 9th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Amen, you said it all, we’re also paying for our own domain and hosting. It’s a give and take thing, besides PR agencies/companies can save a lot of money if they use bloggers as a way of advertising. In fact, for bloggers to create a post about their product, bloggers deserve even more than just the free food, free products, etc… Isa pa, bloggers do not go to an event uninvited, it’s the advertisers wish to invite bloggers. Yung mga nagsasabi na freeloaders ang mga bloggers, malamang fellow blogger din sya na di nakaka-attend ng events, hehe…
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August 9th, 2009 at 8:40 am
It’s so true. In my case I take time off work to attend certain events. If I chose to just skip it and stick to our business hubby always says I would’ve ended up making more money.
August 9th, 2009 at 10:00 am
sino kaya ang taong yun?
you’re right, Earth. we invest time, money and so much effort maintaining our blogs. Siguro di lang yun naiinvite sa events kaya daming sentiments sa buhay.
pabayaan na lang natin sya, basta tayo nag-eenjoy sa ginagawa natin at wala tayon nasasaktang tao… mga responsableng bloggers naman tayo noh!
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August 9th, 2009 at 10:22 am
@ Badet malamang sourgraping kasi di naiinvite sa events? LOLZ and I agree maswerte ang mga PR agencies at ad company kasi mababait ang mga bloggers masaya na sa little perks na give nila diba?
@ Rowena true ka jan we have so much better to do than attend those events and make more money but for the love of blogging we do it
August 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
nice meeting you last night at the emerging influential blogs awards, earthlingorgeous! bloggers are definitely not freeloaders. binibigyan lang ng freebies. hehe.
i followed the post on the nuffnang thing. I cant believed they asked you to take down the post. when they were still new in RP, i tried google searching their company. they were plenty of blogs who wrote negative reviews and were even on page 1 of SERP. right now, yung update mo yata yung no.1 sa blog search.
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August 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
@ceblogger wow I didn’t know that post is on page 1 of SERP probably explains from time to time there are new comments I am getting from it.
and yeah I agree about not being freeloaders but getting freebies instead lolz, that’s entirely two different thing, maybe that is what whoever that was mean lolz.
nice to meet you too and the rest last night
August 10th, 2009 at 3:52 am
bitter lang siguro yun kasi nga di na-iinvite
But seriously you are right. May investment ang blogger (be it time or money) when he/she attend events and post about it on their blog so how can you say freeloader? Inggit lang yan
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August 10th, 2009 at 10:47 am
i totally agree earth, lalo na ako, wala kasing internet sa bahay kaya i really have to spend for my blogging extra…
hey, nice meeting you last sat on the event… i must say…hmmm… you are indeed gorgeous, eheheh! so may freebie na ko? wahahha
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August 10th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Hi Earthlingorgeous!
It’s my first time here, but definitely not the last. Hehe!
It was nice to meet you at the EIB eyeball! I have a photo of you taking a photo of the wine glass. lol.
And no, I’m not a freeloader. lol. I don’t need to be. (naks. joke!)
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August 11th, 2009 at 1:05 am
kaya pala sabi sa PP bloggers are freeloaders!! huh??? WHY do they say things like that? Everything naman is give and take di ba? Like if the PR companies give may take din naman sila kasi we post the PR on our blogs and I never take it down na. Kakainis yun ha!!
August 11th, 2009 at 5:30 am
@Elmot awww thanks ahahaha freebie? magpapacontest ako para may freebie lolz
August 11th, 2009 at 10:03 am
ahhahah! kelan ang contest? have i heard about contests? wahhaha! adik sa contest at freebies ba? ehehhe… hindi nman… may mga pics ka nung awarding?
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August 11th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
agree ako sa post mong ito
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August 15th, 2009 at 8:34 am
i think the person who said bloggers are freeloaders is not a blogger him/herself. probably one of the people required to attend an event and observed that bloggers are getting all the credit. probably a loner who just waits for his salary and wonders why he cannot get the same perks bloggers receive. i agree with you that bloggers are now the new people PR agencies are looking for because people like you know how to use the internet to “influence” other people. maintaining a blogsite is a difficult thing, plus all the expenses needed to get it going. i bet he doesn’t even know people like john chow, etc. and how they earn through their sites….
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