Yesterday, I joined SocialSpark, thinking of it as a method to make money for what I write. Writing is my job, my work, my passion, you know...
On the other hand, when I want to enroll in some program, or a certain opportunity, — including, let's say, an online course — I do my homework. This is due to my 9 years on the internet. Usually, I check for cross-references. If you got a little more experience in online research, you can find lots of useful information. So, I started digging for some other sources of information on SocialSpark. This is already an old habit of mine. Well, it happens that I stumbled upon a blog post (I will intentionally skip details!) stating that this type of blog posts, — payed reviews — are crap.
Is it so? What do you think?
Let me put it another way:
— I work writing and researching for information on internet. That means that I make use of lots of resources: My English knowledge — my primary language is Romanian —, my Time, I pay bills for the broadband internet connection, the ccomputer is mine, I payed for my home office's furniture, I pay for domestic utilities such as water, electricity, garbage picking, streets cleaning, I need to eat, to sleep somewhere...
— Lots of people go to a job; I wonder... Are they ashamed that they get payed for what they do? I mean: Is it a shame to get payed for your work?
Obviously, there is some ethical philosophy involved here. But even if I write a review and I get payed for it, which comes first, is what I really belive. Actually, IF I find out that I was deceived or mislead by a professional black marketing strategy, who can stop me to write another review, to reveal what is really “behind the closed doors”? Afterall, that is why blogging is: Write information, pass it to anyone that is interested, exchange experience and thus, develop ourselves.
With those being said, I already pointed out what I am going to do: I will go on writing my reviews, be them payed or just like this one, for the social reason of contributing to community development of a healthy, sane, online environnement.
Sincerely yours, Şerban Stănescu, Zero Negations Writer
NOTE: ALL blog posts in this blog, are written in ZERO NEGATIONS LANGUAGE, The next level in NLP — Neuro Linguistic Programming.
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