Trying to understand people
Honestly, I really can’t understand what motivates people to do and say some of the things that they do. Yes. I am talking about a particular incident. As you all are aware, I occasionally participate in some paid blogging. That is, I get paid to write reviews about different companies and products for a small amount of compensation. I’ve never tried to hide this fact, nor have I denied it. I started doing paid blogging as a way to earn a little extra income working from home since I currently can’t work outside of the home due to baby sitting issues. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with this or didn’t realize how badly paid bloggers are treated on the Internet.
Now, I don’t pretend to be an expert in the world of blogging, Internet marketing or SEO. So, I have come to depend on others to kind of lead me in the right direction. Up until today that has worked out pretty good. But, when a so called “expert” gives false information on purpose (their reasons, who knows??) just to scare the pants of us bloggers who aren’t quite as informed as they are, that really burns me.
Because of this misinformation that I was given today, it totally stressed me out and really got me to thinking about why even bothering doing what I am doing on the Internet. Thankfully some other people who are a lot more knowledgeable in this field set me straight and I’m not quite as stressed as I was earlier.
My point to this entire “rant” and yes, it is a rant. Is WHY do some people set out to cause grief and unhappiness for others. Does it make them feel better about themselves? Do they think that if I get discouraged and quit doing any online activities at all that means more work for them? Honestly I’m trying to figure out why these type of people exist on the Internet and what their motives behind messing with other less experienced people are.
On a brighter note, having this experience today did show me that there are people out there who are more than willing to share their “truthful” experiences with us all and to these people I would like to say thank you. To the trouble makers, I would like to say “Go Away!”
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December 5th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Oh are you talking about the “de-indexing” thing? I just now read that post, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack!
December 21st, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I guess that some people like to make themselves look important. I’m glad to see you are ignoring them. I try to stick with the people I know who have helped me so much. It is hard to find ones to trust though.
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