You see, for many of such people the reason behind why they blog is to expose stuff and to express, honestly truthfully and explicitly what they believe in. By tying yourself to advertisers you are undoubtedly limiting yourself or inhibitting yourself in one way or another. Or don’t we all know the phrase “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you…”

Still I daresay the majority of the blogging population, including the massess of kids who are doing it to follow the “trend” of keeping on online account of their day-to-day life, will probably talk simply about their shopping sprees, sex, their relationship problems, sex, their parents…oh and did i mention SEX etc. etc. so it really isn’t much of a problem.

Of course there are quite a few who join sites like nuffnang merely to give them a platform to showcase their work to more people. It’s a means of self-advertising I suppose. Granted, they may not get as much advertisors (if any at all) but I suppose if it wasn’t what they were after all along it hardly matters.

Let’s not forget, too, that there nuffnang allows us to limit the adds posted on our blogs to “charity adds” (is the term charity?) or something like that. So one could very well join without capitalistic intention. How realistic is being completely free of captitalism in today’s society is, of course a separate issue…

Personally, I don’t like the term “blogging for money” at all. Except for perhaps a very select few, I believe that almost ALL people are just using it to complement their blogging (or so I hope).

It’s stretching definitions in a way. How does someone who blog just for money (as opposed to complementing their blogging) do it differently from the latter? And if so, are they still called blogs? And then there is the other issue of blogshops. Why is a blogshop a “blog” and not merely a “shop”?

It’s complicated.

Hope this mini-essay answers your question.

PEACE OUT

Keep up the good work!